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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.
Since being named the endorsed fund by the senior Class of 2008, Carolina for Kibera continues to gain momentum on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). As part of the launch of the new Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases at UNC, the Institute highlighted CFK as one of a few "key opportunities for collaboration" and research between students and faculty at the Institute with service-oriented organizations that share similar goals.
Also getting some press on campus at UNC is the CFK Endowment Fund, which was the focus of the article "Carolina for Kibera gets endowment fund" by the student newspaper, The Daily Tarheel. The article demonstrates how the endowment fund fits in strategically with CFK's goal to become financially sustainable and flexible. "Grants come with so many strings attached," said Mat Despard, professor at the UNC School of Social Work, in the article. The endowment will support CFK staff in Kibera to remain programmatically flexible to the changing environment and to evolve as an organization over time. Learn more about the endowment fund by e-mailing us at cfk@unc.edu.
