Mwelu Foundation

The Mwelu Foundation is a community organisation that works across the Mathare area to improve the lives of the ghetto youth. The key activities of the Foundation are the following:

1. Running the Mwelu photography programme, to teach the ghetto kids to record images of their day-to-day lives, and document their own reality.
2. Using documentary film and drama to get the slum kids to raise awareness of the pressing issues in Mathare.
3. Running the Children's Parliament, to enable the slum kids to address the issues the slum faces, and come up with their own solutions.
4. Running a poetry programme in which the kids write about their own lives and the tragedies and hopes that surround them.
5. Running the Julius Burger Football Club (named after a beef burger!) as a way to bring people from different tribes and culture together in the name of sport.
6. Running dance and acrobatic workshops and programmes, with an aim to educate the community about HIV/Aids.
7. Running an adolescent's health programme, to raise awareness of teenage pregnancy and related issues.
8. Establishing a library at the Mwelu Foundation for after school studies, wherein students can access study materials in a peaceful and secure environment.

You can find more information about the Mwelu Foundation at their website: www.mwelu.org