Maji Mazuri seeks to address the root causes of poverty and focuses on alleviating poverty by empowering people to bring about change in their own lives. This is our latest news...
Naomi is a PhD researcher at the University of Amsterdam. In her research project she focuses on ethnic violence in slum communities such as Mathare Valley in Kenya. Her relationship with Maji Mazuri is quite unique. She met Wanjiku Kironyo, the Director of Maji Mazuri, when she was only 14. That meeting changed her life. Maji Mazuri shaped her into the person she is today, a teacher, anthropologist and researcher with a passion for youth empowerment. For the last 20 years she has worked in Kenya, for Maji Mazuri, for more than 16 times. Through her research position at the university she will now be able to work in Kenya for approximately 4 months a year. A dream come true. In 2003 she, and some friends, set up a small foundation in The Netherlands called Duara. Duara is one of the international partners of Maji Mazuri and together with Duara Maji Mazuri has been able to launch the Maji Mazuri Education and Talent Program that currently guides 550 youth to a better future. She thoroughly believes in supporting bottom-up, local community projects, such as initiated and executed by Maji Mazuri since the mid 80s, because people themselves are able to determine their own route to socio-economic empowerment but they sometimes lack the means to do so.
The Maji Mazuri Youth group is trained by Dr. Wanjiku Kironyo in a method called Re-evaluating Counseling. This picture was taken during the post-election violence in January 2008 when youth came to the Maji Mazuri Head Office for counseling, food and other type of relief while their ghetto was in…
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I walked down one of the serpentine, narrow allies in the slum to meet a friend who owned a local bar near the river. I had discussed with him that I could visit to talk to some of the young men wasting their days inside his bar. He was a…
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On a crispy cold morning in September 2005 Buda and I walked down to the river to get hot charcoal from the Chang’aa (illegal alcohol) brewers to cook our lunch with. Once in a while we took a day off from work, to cook lunch together for some of our…
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