Exciting news! 🎉 SheLeads Kakuma team is growing! Please join us in welcoming Dounia Abderrahman, our new Partnership Advisor. 🫱🏿‍🫲🏼

Dounia's passion for empowering women & girls, especially refugees, aligns with our mission.

#sheleadskakuma #kakuma #womenrights #genderequality

Our team leader Nhial Deng connected with Rebecca Lorins from Likikiri Collective in #Nairobi before her #Kakuma trip. 

In Kakuma, Rebecca will meet with our team on the ground & run a workshop on archiving for our storytelling project participants.

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Strategy and collaboration in action at SheLeads Kakuma.

Every workshop is a step towards greater empowerment and community impact.

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We are glad to be going on this journey with CDC Africa and @sheleadskakuma

Follow us to learn more about this project and the people behind it in coming days.

A Labor of Love 🖤

In our Storytelling as Safeguarding project, 20 young South Sudanese women from 4 communities in 2 countries will be documenting, archiving, and sharing 400 songs from 5 moments in a woman's life cycle. ✍🏿📽💻🎙

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Exciting road ahead! ✍🏿📽💻

Follow Likikiri Collective and our partners to learn more!

SheLeads Kakuma British Council Nhial Deng 🙌🏾 We are so grateful to be working with amazing partners like SheLeads Kakuma and CDC Africa and excited to the sharing of #SouthSudan |ese women's #culturalheritage in refugee settings #withrefugees #LikikiriLab British Council

We are thrilled to embark on a transformative journey with Likikiri Collective, supported by the British Council! 🌍✨

Together, we are empowering young women & girls to preserve and narrate their cultural heritage through storytelling. 🎤🎥✍️

Learn more here: …al-protection-fund.britishcouncil.org/projects/story…

In Day 2 of our workshop, ethnomusicologist Wadiru Stella began with guiding question 'Why Song'? She reminded us why we should take the safeguarding of cultural heritage seriously

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Both teams in Arua and Kakuma conducted pilot Story Circles, where they are aiming to record 10 songs per session based on 5 moments in a woman's life cycle, totalling an incredible 400 songs by end of project!

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The team in Kakuma practiced their skills by interviewing their elders about cultural heritage, including songs

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The #StorytellingasSafeguarding teams have been practicing using media tools for documentation: practitioner and trainer Alsanosi Adam equipped the young women with the basics in professional audio and visual recording

Day 4 of our Documenting Song Heritage Workshop SheLeads Kakuma and CDC Africa focused on writing down the recorded songs | Check out these brilliant women transcribing Avokaya, Dinka, Kakwa and Nuer and translating into English 💻 #StorytellingasSafeguarding #LikikiriLab

🏀 Girls can do anything they set their minds to – including dominating the basketball court!

Our #SheLeadsKakuma basketball games not only promote physical activity but also encourage teamwork, and leadership skills among refugee girls and women.

#Basketball #GenderEquality

📢Applications are open!

🧐Are you an early-career scholar in the humanities or social sciences experiencing displacement from your home country?

✍️Apply to the Columbia Global Emerging Scholars Fellowship Program today 👉tinyurl.com/ydhxvc44

SheLeads Kakuma extends warmest wishes for a happy and blessed Eid-al-Fitr to our Muslim community members, friends, and all those celebrating today.

May this special day bring peace, happiness, and prosperity to you and your loved ones. 🌙✨

#Eid #Eid Mubarak #Kakuma

“The perfect school for me is where there is no bullying, one where people will think differently, dress differently and look differently.”

Falastin from SheLeads Kakuma shares her experience of discrimination in school.

Watch here: youtu.be/bMYDopfzYzk?si…

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Today, tomorrow, every day – we are building feminist strategies to break barriers for refugee women and girls, defy gender norms, and shape a society that embraces all.

Are you in?

#withrefugees #genderequality #sheleadskakuma #sgs5 #csw

“Wrapping up one of our #SheLeadsKakuma mentorship sessions with a bang!” 🌟

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Happy Easter from all of us at SheLeads Kakuma! 🐰🥚