CFK's Kicking AIDS Out (KAO) project empowers 32 young Kibera leaders trained as peer educators to help thousands of youth in the community tackle the challenges they face, including poverty, HIV/AIDS, gender, rape, substance abuse, tribalism and conflict through alternative means of education. KAO peer educators use sports-related games, theatre, community forums, and informal school discussions to discuss these difficult topics, as well as the life skills young people need to develop in order to lead healthier lives.
Managed completely by the Kenyan KAO peer educators, this program builds the leadership skills and confidence of youth in Kibera so that they may have a vision for achieving their goals, while also supporting them through secondary and post-secondary scholarships to further their education.
This film is a short overview of the project, including interviews with some of the peer educators, and action shots of how KAO integrates sport and education to spread information throughout the community. The film was produced by CFK Youth Development Officer, Rehana Tejpar.
Rye Barcott, Carolina for Kibera (CFK) president and founder, will address students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) on Fri., Feb. 8 at 5 p.m. in the Global Education Center. In light of the current political situation in Kenya, Rye will talk about how the recent post-election violence in Kibera and Kenya has affected CFK and the Kibera community. The lecture is sponsored by the Senior Class Campaign for Carolina, which has selected CFK as the endorsed fund, as well as the Carolina Annual Fund, Carolina Career Services, and Carolina for Kibera. The lecture will be followed by a networking reception with Carolina alum with international careers. Learn more about the lecture here.
Rye Barcott graduated with a B.A. in Peace, War, and Defense from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a Triangle Institutes for Security Studies Millennium Fellow and a Burch Fellow. While an undergraduate at UNC, Rye founded CFK in Kenya with Salim Mohamed and the late Tabitha Atieno Festo, who each shared the conviction that the poor have the solutions to the problems they face.
Rye served on active duty in the U.S. Marine Corps for five years and is currently a joint MPA and MBA candidate at Harvard University, where he is a Catherine B Reynolds Foundation Social Entrepreneurship Fellow. He is co-editor of Armed Conflict in Africa (Scarecrow, 2003).
Rye is a member of the Harvard University’s Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility and Committee on Rights and Responsibilities. He also serves as a member of the UNC NROTC Board of Directors.
