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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.
The Triangle Business Journal profiled Carolina for Kibera in its Oct. 5 article "UNC nonprofit aiding in Africa aims for $4M endowment." The article highlights CFK's new relationship with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and how the two are working together to create a unique, sustainable model for grassroots, community development. Interviews with Rye Barcott (CFK founder and president), Daniel Lebold (director of development for the UNC FedEx Global Education Center), and Jon King (president and CEO of UNC Management LLC) reveal how the endowment will be built upon a partnership between a major research institution, students, and a marginalized community half a world away. Read the article here.
The Senior Class of 2008 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill chose Carolina for Kibera as the Senior Campaign for Carolina's endorsed class gift. Go here to read the Daily Tar Heel report.
Many seniors are supportive and excited about the choice. "I think it's a good thing to leave a legacy behind," senior Bola Omitoogun said. "The fact they're giving money to service is more meaningful than, say, putting up another statue."
The senior class also said they were interested in supporting the University's growing international focus through a gift to Carolina for Kibera.
Other seniors are concerned that the gift will not go towards a physical gift on campus. CFK Summer Fellow Laura Williamson, a senior at UNC, is working with senior class president Ashley Shores and the senior class marshals to brainstorm ways in which the gift could be used in Kibera for the purchase of a physical gift that would be donated to CFK in honor of the UNC Senior Class of 2008.
Carolina for Kibera is excited to make the connection between UNC students and youth leaders in Kibera stronger through the senior class gift.
"By naming CFK the beneficiary of the Senior Campaign for Carolina, not only are the seniors demonstrating an incredible commitment to service," said CFK President and Founder Rye Barcott, "but they also are embracing their role as leaders and partners with their counterparts in Kibera in making the world a better place. Carolina for Kibera is honored to work with the UNC Senior Class of 2008."
