(17 May 2025)
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Nairobi, Kenya – 5 April 2025
1. Various of Mathare slums in Nairobi
2. Various of Mathare pig farm, worker
3. Various setup shots of former criminal and urban farmer Joseph Kariaga
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Joseph Kariaga, former criminal and urban farmer:
"We were many boys here, of which we have grown with them here. They started engaging them in bad things like robbery, stealing people’s phones."
5. Various of Kariaga looking at photos of his deceased friend on smartphone
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Joseph Kariaga, former criminal and urban farmer:
"We changed after many died, my friends, so many. Even my brother. We decided to change to be the young ones’ ambassadors."
7. Various of Mathare slums in Nairobi
8. Various setup shots of former criminal and urban farmer Ben Njoki walking through slums
9. Tilt up of Njoki speaking
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Ben Njoki, former criminal and urban farmer:
"The types of crimes I was involved in were going and mugging people. We would go in gangs, like four people, and go and hide somewhere in some hotspot area."
11. Cutaway of Njoki
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Ben Njoki, former criminal and urban farmer:
"Vision Bearerz was an escape plan for me because we lost so many of us on the way. We were going through ups and downs like lacking money so we had to get it from wherever we could."
13. Various of man preparing food, Njoki watching on
14. Cutaway of Njoki speaking during interview
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Ben Njoki, former criminal and urban farmer:
"The life I was living was a lie. It didn’t add anything, it just lost more people. But right now, we are winning more people in the community, the parents, the kids around here."
16. Various of fish pond
17. Various of woman preparing food
18. Setup shot of urban farmer and founder of Vision Bearerz Moses Nyoike giving food to man to try
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Moses Nyoike, urban farmer and founder of Vision Bearerz:
"Our mission is to reduce crime, that is our aim. Because in Mathare, sometimes you will find there is chaos, but when youths are busy, they cannot engage in crime, that is why we decided to do something."
20. Various of Noyike looking at TIktok videos on smartphone
21. Various setup shots of Jeffrey Okoro, executive director, CFK Africa, walking through Mathare
22. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeffrey Okoro, executive director, CFK Africa:
"One of the major challenges affecting young people in slums is gangs and the lure of making it rich or getting a quick buck and that is mostly because of the environment that exists. We have not done enough to provide opportunities for these young people. The question is, for young people coming from high schools, young people leaving primary school, what is there for them? What is there for them mostly is bleak. A lot of them end up joining these gangs who then provide an opportunity either for them to become a man, for them to earn a living, and it is so luring."
23. Various of food being prepared
24. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeffrey Okoro, executive director, CFK Africa:
"In light of the current development cuts, localisation is the way to go. The idea of locals taking charge of the change that they want is the way to go. I think it’s great that we’ve had large organizations, such as USAID, providing support, but locals understand and can maintain what is going on."
25. Various of young people being served food
26. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeffrey Okoro, executive director, CFK Africa:
27. Various of young people being served food
28. Various of Mathare slums in Nairobi
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