page_title: Serious Request
section_title: Kenya: Serious Request 2014
hierarchical_section_title: Serious Request / 2014 / Kenya: Serious Request 2014
caption_attribution_description: English: A view of some houses in the Kibera Slum. Nairobi, Kenya. Garbage removal services are typically unavailable in slums. So solid waste piles up in different corners. Major wind or floods wash these away into rivers and natural ecosystems.
context_page_description: Serious Request is a family of annual multi-day, multimedia fundraising events for International Red Cross initiatives, typically hosted by radio stations in the week before Christmas. The project was begun in 2004 by Dutch public pop music radio station 3FM. Serious Request projects have since been adopted in Belgium, Switzerland, Sweden, Kenya, South Korea, Austria, Latvia and Portugal.
  The DJs make an interactive, themed broadcast around the clock, while regular programming on the station is suspended. Instead 3FM and its website are completely dedicated to the event, which is also transmitted as a continuous audio and video live-stream. Additionally there is television coverage, integration with social media, and a dedicated mobile app.
  Funds are raised in a few different ways. DJs play songs requested by listeners and visitors, in return for their donations. Celebrities and artists also donate personal possessions or offer unique opportunities to meet them, which are auctioned off. Straightforward donations are made into the project's bank-account, and by physical visitors depositing cash and cheques into the house's letterbox.
context_section_description: For 2014, Ghetto Radio 89.5 FM took its annual awareness campaign on a tour of three of the biggest slums in the Nairobi Area – Dandora, Kibera and Kawangware, combining stage performances from artists with their radio broadcasts. The year's theme was to educate the people there about the Kenyan constitution, because the majority of youth in Nairobi's slum areas have not read the constitution since its promulgation in 2010. Many young people don't understand the constitution and are not aware of their rights. For that reason, Ghetto Radio alternated entertainment with education from constitution expert Churchill Suba, in their Jukumu Letu tour. At the same time, booklets were distributed, with a simplified version of the constitution translated in Sheng (slang). One response from the public was: "[I] .. thought that the constitution was a document meant to benefit the people in power .. the rich and the politicians. Now I know that it is a document that should also assist me." The residents say the booklet which has translated a section of the constitution in Sheng has given them a great insight on their rights on security, health, education and employment issues.
caption: Dwellings in Kibera slum, Nairobi, Kenya (ca. 2008)
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