You, yes you: Help girls blog and tweet!

Happy new year! Hope your start to the new year has been as great as ours, which has been complete with fabulous volunteers from Wharton and Middlebury and a new grant:

This week we join The Girl Effect by bringing the internet to girls in Kibera!

As part of ZanaA’s commitment to creating pioneering blue-print models to break cycles of poverty, ZanaA is piloting after-school EmpowerNet Clubs. Bringing a backpack of laptops and netbooks to schools, girls will access the internet in groups of 4 using a bespoke platform on this website.

Through this program, girls will access empowering resources online and find and amplify their voices through blogging and tweeting. They will learn other valuable skills such as typing, photography, videography, and using browser-enabled phones.

STARTING THIS WEDNESDAY, 12th January, you can be a part of this cutting-edge program. Sign up by email or phone to volunteer one, two, or more days this week for our exciting training. In a secure location for people and their cars right off Kibera Drive, we will be hosting 100 girls to train them on computer and internet basics. We invite you to come with your laptop, and sit with your laptop and 4 girls, and help them to walk through our fun training program to make sure they’re understanding.

Wednesday 12 January 2pm-5pm
Thursday 13 January 2pm-5pm
Friday 14 January 2pm-5pm
Saturday 15 January 8:30am-4pm
Saturday 22 January 8:30am-4pm

This is a unique way to get a safe introduction to Kibera, to get an intimate interaction with a small number of school girls, and to use something you may take for granted – your laptop – in a way that is transformative for others, and to have fun!

WE NEED AT LEAST 6 VOLUNTEERS EACH DAY WITH THEIR LAPTOPS TO MAKE THE TRAINING SUCCESSFUL. Please come for at least one afternoon, and take a moment now to share this with family, friends, colleagues, and acquaintances you know who might be interested. We guarantee you’ll have an unforgettable time.

I’ll be there every day, and I’d love to see you.

To sign up, please contact the volunteer coordinator:
Sarah Meyer
PR & Communication Officer

sarah at zanaafrica dot org

Thereafter, you can come and visit an EmpowerNet Club, any day Monday-Friday 2:30-5pm in a different school each day. Saturdays 10am-4pm you can interact with girls in our drop-in center at our Kibera Olympic Office.

UPDATE: Our first day was such fun. For more photos, please