KAREGWA MUCHIRI's Page

Friends and partners!
I do not have a personal website and plans are underway to ensure I have one this year. I have won awards as a community worker, an innovator, social entrepreneur, journalist, poet, writer, actor, film producer, event organizer, trainer- teacher, human rights activist and a communication specialist all in one!


Between 1990-1992 I wrote and produced four major plays namely:” Mental Jiggers” "Looking for the Devil” The Wedding at the Grave Yard” and "Mau Mau Messiah” I was among the first theatre community theatre producers in Kenya to use theatre for AIDS awareness and founded an annual World Aids Day Theatre Festivals . We have since used theatre to communicate issues on sexual violence, childrens rights, drug abuse etc.


In 1996 during a stint as a condom promotions manager with Populations Services International, I introduced music concerts in the condom promotions . The concept was so successful that we packed ten stadiums throughout Kenya and making me a professional organizer organizer in East and Central Africa with over 30 concerts successfully produced and managed in Kenya, Sudan , London and Italy to date. My organization was the first to use road shows to communicate development issues in Kenya. We founded the World Aids Day Music Concerts with Gathecha Kamau. I am founder director of the Mji wa Furaha Youth Center in Nairobi


From 2000 I have been producing documentaries on Human rights, AIDS and other health issues. I am true story teller and a communicator at best. I have so far produced 10 documentaries on different issues facing my African people!

On aside, I work with charities to raise fund for children and widows I have raised over USD 2000,000 for different charities in Kenya..
To prevent dependency among organizations we work for , my team is devoting time to train organizations in fund raising and we have had such workshops in Nairobi, Juba and Arusha this year!

In 2006 we initiated the 1st National Bar Maids conference and conducted the 2nd conference in 2008. Bar workers are seriously stigmatized in Kenya. Our efforts are bearing fruits as the East African Breweries Ltd has set up an academy to train bar workers in business management.

This year my team is devoting energies in promoting the dance genre as a leading communication and a social change tool through the premier Nairobi International Dance Festival to promote peace and human understanding that is slated for November 2009 in Nairobi Kenya. We are looking for international partners to work with us in the project!


With such firsts, I am only warming up this year to come up with a major project.

: I am the founder of Purple Images Productions, Action Africa Volunteers and Capacity Concern Africa .I also a graduate of Literature specializing in theatre arts from Kenyatta University, Nairobi and in Development Communications at Pontifical Gregoriana Univeristy in Rome.


"God created you so that your life would count, not so that you could count the days of your life"- Erwin R. McManus

Thank you,
http://www.purpleimages.com
www.actionafricavolunteers.org