Tools For Change
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#Tools for Change Fundraising Campaign
1. To purchase more working and clean-up tools for youth to expand and deepen our neighbourhood rehabilitation through our Changing Faces initiative;
2. To host a massive celebration for what DTL youth have achieved for the last 3 years at the next Prize Giving in December at the Changing Faces Competition Season III finale;
3. To highlight DTL’s activities to a wider
audience and secure partnerships for DTL’s other transformation programs.
What is the context of the
campaign?
Nairobi is degenerating into
one big glorified dumpsite. This is regardless of
whether you’re in the middle and lower income areas of Eastlands or in the more affluent
western side of the city; garbage and litter have come to characterize our
daily experience in public spaces. The decadence only varies in degree. The responsible
city authorities seem at worst unable to handle the mess and at best simply
bewildered. Dandora, our target neighbourhood lies to the east of Nairobi and is one
of the areas that has suffered the worst of the decadence and is the focus area
of this present initiative.
The Changing Faces
initiative by DTL is a perfect solution because it is a community driven
solution. Because the community are organizing themselves into groups to clean
the public spaces around them, they are more likely to maintain and improve them.
To add icing to cake – the area residents are making small monthly
contributions to pay the youth responsible for cleaning and maintenance hence
providing livelihood for youth in an area with high unemployment and crime
rates. This also gives this fundraiser and the project the internal sustainability that is crucial for most projects of this kind .
What is our plan?
We are looking for funds, firstly, to launch a massive expansion campaign to more than double the number of courtyard youth teams and cover a wider area of Dandora and provide them with tools. We want to give new teams tools and also help existing teams replace old worn out tools which are a bit expensive. Secondly, every year, we host a prize giving day to celebrate those youth teams that have made the greatest transformation in their courtyards. After two successful seasons of the Changing Faces Competition and prize giving; we will be hosting our 3rd awards this December and we all know – the third time is always magical –right?! We want to make it fun and memorable.
Finally, the neighbourhood rehabilitation
is just but an entry point to our engagement with young people in Dandora. We
hope this campaign will give us the visibility to secure partnerships in our
other transformative projects for youth and for Dandora.
The campaign
closes on 24 November 2016!
How can I participate?
1. Make a donation through the payment channels provided below. You can pay through mobile money, electronic bank transfer and even credit card/Paypal payments. You can donate as little as 100 Kenya Shillings (Apprx US$ 1.);
2. Take a fun photo of yourself or you and your friends holding up some cleaning tools e.g a broom, a spade, a rake working gloves etc and post the picture on our Facebook page here or on Twitter with any of the following hashtags #IAmWithDTL, #IAmChangingDandora #DandoraTransformation. Our Twitter handle is: @DTL_in_Dandora. If you are not set up on social media, you can email us the photos and with your permission, we will post them for you. These photos will be the life of this campaign. The email to use is: cfc@dandora-transformation.org
