Webinar on Solidarity with refugees in Kenya

Start: 2024-12-16 10:00:00 UTC Nairobi (GMT+03:00)

End: 2024-12-16 12:30:00 UTC Nairobi (GMT+03:00)

This is a virtual event

The Quakers Peace Initiative and Sixty Four Voices Organization and The Kenya Coalition on Youth Peace and security (KCYPC) are undertaking a multi layered initiative highlighting the Kenyan Urban Refugees Agenda. To show solidarity with refugees as part of this program, a webinar will be held on Zoom, on Monday, December 16, 2024, from 10:00 AM to 12:30 PM EAT (Nairobi time, GMT-3).

The following panelists for the event will highlight Kenyan urban refugees youth stories, struggles and opportunities:

Bior Samuel Garang, Keynote Speaker

Bior is a South Sudanese microbiologist & a Certified refugee community. He survived the 1991 Bor Massacre and has since then been spending his life as a protracted refugee in Kenya. Despite hardship, he empowers refugees through community building and advocates for their rights. He co-founded organizations e.g. Sixty Four Voices Organization focused on refugee community rebuilding and refugee youth peace building. Bior currently engages in peace building actions in Kenya and South Sudan.

Isaac Madeng-Machiek
Madeng is a South Sudanese Refugees community Youth

Leader a staunch Feminist and equal rights defender. Madeng has wide experiences in Youth Peace Advocacy and has been a UNHCR Community representative. Madeng is passionate in Youth agendas Researcher and tries to reflect this in his numerous writings as a prolific poet and social critic. Madeng has keen interest in Youth political involvement in South Sudanese communities and believes that the empowered youths are the solution to Community Development. He is a an International Relations and

Public policy Professional.

Asrat Koricha-Tolossa

Asrat is a Kenyan Refugee from Ethiopia who has lived for many years in kakuma Refugee Camp as a Community Mobiliser, Journalist, Teacher and Environmental Activist, he is most proud about the over ten thousand trees his Organization has planted in sever Kakuma homesteads in the greening Kakuma Program. Asarat moved to Nairobi in 2020. He has a Bachelor Degree in Business Management and a Background in Journalism and has worked with several Humanitarian and Research Organizations in Kenya.

Asrat is passionate about Social Justice and human rights. Through his exile, he has constantly advocated for refugees and asylum seekers through his writing.

Monica Malith
Monica Malith is a gifted and unique individual and a true trail blazer. She made history by becoming the first international student to be the President of the students’ association at the prestigious University of Nairobi, and toped this up with being the youngest East African Refugee Youth to address the UN Security Council General Assembly on her address at the Summit of the Future on 22 September 2024. Malith is also a renown South Sudanese refugees community Youth Leader and had shown her leadership qualities at a very early age.

Ajak Jok-Ajak
Ajak is known by his peers as the definition of grit, as he almost miraculously rose from his humble beginnings as a dusty little cheeky refugee boy from Kakuma with only a dream of having a decent meal every day to being amongst the first refugees youthful lawyers in Kenya admitted to the Bar, not only did he set Professional standards of positive integration. He also broke barriers as a pioneer. Ajak's impressive toils that culminated in admitted as an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya is nothing short of a susses full refugee resilience story as well as his current role as an Associate at Oraro & Company Advocates.

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