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Demanding Dignity with a Kenya e-action

Evangelia Papada is in Kenya

Greetings from Nairobi, Kenya. The Demand Dignity campaign has officially been launched and we have switched on our campaign engines. Amnesty International has just released a report on informal settlements in Kenya and the Secretary General Irene Khan is here on a High Level Mission.

Jennifer and I arrived here a few days ago. Our aim is to engage the public, and predominately slum dwellers, in an SMS action.

We have trained over 70 volunteers from community-based organisations who, in turn, trained over a 100 of their peers on how to carry out the action. We are equipped with leaflets, postcards, and a video camera crew and our aim is to collect people’s voices.

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