Duara supports local and international organizations in poor urban slum communities in sub-Sahara Africa. The board members of Duara have been involved with the projects of Maji Mazuri since 1989.
As a foundation Duara proposes a more dynamic and reciprocal form of international development cooperation and through this it hopes to contribute to a more equal world. Duara supports local and international organizations in poor urban slum communities in sub-Sahara Africa.
The board members of Duara have been involved with the projects of Maji Mazuri since 1989. The long-term relationship between Maji Mazuri and Duara has resulted in a strong commitment of the board members to Maji Mazuri. Each year board members travel at their own expense to work in Kenya.
Vision
Based on its long-term experience Duara has developed a unique vision on development cooperation. Duara define sits position in relation to the projects it works together with in terms of personal friendship, equality and reciprocity. Duara aims to stimulate local knowledge, initiatives and notions of ownership of ones own development. Duara considers this approach as the key to self-sustainability and long-term development.
Duara distinguishes itself from other organization by its long-tem personal commitment to the projects it seeks to work together with and by working in the projects on a voluntarily basis at least once a year. Duara members travel and work in Kenya at their own costs.
History
Following more than a decade of working together with the Maji Mazuri Centre in Kenya as an informal organization Duara was officially registered as a foundation on 24 December 2003. It was 1989 when Naomi van Stapele and her twin brother Saul first met Mrs. Wanjiku Kironyo in The Netherlands. Mrs. Wanjiku Kironyo, director of Maji Mazuri, and 6 of her pupils from a youth group in Mathare Valley, a slum in Nairobi, were invited to the Netherlands to join a conference on alternative didactic methodologies. Part of their contribution to the conference was a drama performance about their lives and dealing with trauma's in the slums of Mathare Valley. The next year, 1990, the twins visited their new friends in Kenya. This was the start of a friendship and working relationship that now already has been going on for 18 years.
Fundraising
Duara greatly appreciates any form of donation to support the great work of Maji Mazuri in Kenya. Your donation will be transferred directly to Maji Mazuri by Duara and al donors receive a detailed report on the expenditures and progress of project activities.
or transfer your donation to our account:
ABN AMRO
Account # 57.25.65.607
‘Stichting Duara‘
the Hague | the Netherlands
To be included on the Duara Network of friends email info[at]duara.org. You will receive the digital newsletters of Duara.
The Maji Mazuri Youth group is currently preparing a garbage collection project that will be launched on 5th of February 2011. Maji Mazuri Youth group organizes many clean-ups since many years but now has the ambition to develop this community service into a vast project that will make a major impact in the community in terms of health, in terms of dignity and it will also create jobs for idle youth.
For the proposal of the Green Heroes, please click here and download the business plan of 2011. If you are interested to support this project, please contact us ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ).
Some participants of the project Green Heroes give a short impression of themselves and the project below.
Through the initiative of Duara and the youth group, Maji Mazuri wants to launch the first community radio station in Mathare Valley. ‘Mathare FM’ will give people in this ghetto the information, the education and the tools to promote peace, gain access to jobs, funding and other economic and social empowerment opportunities and create unity in the community of 11 ghetto villages that comprise Mathare Valley.
In the run-up to, during and in the aftermath of the 2007 General Elections it were mainly, so called, ‘idle’ youth in the Mathare Valley ghetto who were mobilised in political violence. The best way to promote peace now and in the near future is to base peace promotion strategies on their experiences and frame of reference, involve them in the implementation of such interventions and provide them with jobs and other social and economic opportunities that will give them hope. The community radio station will target the most vulnerable youth in this ghetto to help them access jobs and other opportunities.
For the detailed proposal of Mathare Ghetto Radio open this proposal: Mathare FM.
If you are interested to support this project, please contact us (
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Duara Foundation proudly presents the new site. With support of webdesigner Maarten Mieras & provider BB-hosting the site of Duara is hosted at no cost.
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Thank you!
Board of Duara Foundation
Chair of Duara Foundation, Naomi van Stapele, as PhD-researcher connected to the ASSR institute will undertake her research in Kenya for 9 months starting in August 2010
Restaurant Het Zalmhuis has supported Duara Foundation in organising a fundraise dinner for three years in a row. This time a team of its employees will run the Rotterdam Marathon on 11 April 2010 and 'Het Zalmhuis will sponsor this endeavour. We are very grateful and seek more sponsors of this team. If YOU want want to sponsor their great effort to support Duara YOU can email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
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