UNICEF features Carolina for Kibera Binti Pamoja Center Alumna, Fatuma Roba
As part of its "Digital Diary" series, UNICEF featured Carolina for Kibera Binti Pamoja Center alumna, Fatuma Roba, in a recent online article. Digital Diaries are written by youth across the globe in order to promote children's issues, activism and leadership through journalism. Ms Roba, 20, was a founding member of Binti Pamoja (Daughters United), a safe space and advocacy platform for adolescent girls in Kibera.
Ms Roba was invited by the United Nations to speak as a panelist in the UN Commission on the Status of Women in New York City in March 2007. While in New York, Ms Roba also attending journalism skills-development workshops. She is using those new skills to be an ambassador for girls and young women in Kibera to the world via the internet. Ms Roba's interviews with current members of the Binti Pamoja (Daughters United) will be published by UNICEF's Digital Diaries and aired on UNICEF Radio. Read more here.
