A Short Documentary about the empowerment of Women through knitting, set in rural Kenya. Stitch by Stitch gives a glimpse into the lives of the Women at the grassroots business, Kenana Knitters, and tells the stories of empowerment in their lives.
This film wouldn't have been possible without the fantastic support of Kenana Knitters, and especially Paddy Knightingale, and Kerry Outram.
More can be found out about the Kenana Knitters at:
kenanaknitters.com
kenana.co.uk
kenanausa.com
This is a video my partner Jason shot during his visit to Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya. It talks about the struggle of the people living in ghettos. We would like to translate it so that their powerful words reach others. Please help!
In this beautifully animated clip from Dirt! The Movie, Wangari Maathai tells an inspiring tale of doing the best you can under seemingly interminable odds. www.DirtTheMovie.org
This is a shortened version of a film made by Maasai pastoralists, living near Oltepesi in Kenya, in March 2009. It documents the devastating impacts of a seemingly endless drought across the region that killed livestock and people, threatened livelihoods and caused wide-spread suffering to many of the indigenous pastoralist communities. For more information: www.insightshare.org www.conversationsearth.org
Giacomo Rambaldi, senior programme coordinator at CTA, elaborates on the role of PGIS practice in rural development. In his view participatory mapping offers opportunities for ordinary people to get a more authoritative say on how the territories they occupy and use are administered. The use of geographic information technologies coupled to the visual – easy to understand - language of maps, place grassroots in the position to entertain peer to peer dialogues with higher authorities. Being on a map, argues Rambaldi, corresponds to existing, and to being in the position to make your voice heard and negotiate access to services and utilities, so important in rural settings.
Kenya imetuzwa kwa mikakati murwa ya kutangaza utalii. Juhudi hizi zimedhihirika wazi kupitia matangazo mbalimbali ambayo yamekuwa yakionyeshwa kwenye runinga ya kimataifa. Kenya ambayo iliibuka
In this 5 minute interview Dr. Nigel Crawhall, Director of Secretariat at IPACC, elaborates on intergenerational ecological knowledge transmission in Participatory 3-dimensional modelling (P3DM). Crawhall discusses his observations on intergenerational interaction when the Ogiek community of Nessuit, Kenya built a geo-referenced model of their mountain forest landscape in 2006.
