Alyssa
Thomas is a college intern working to make positive changes in Kenyan
communities through Kenya Works.
Kenya
Works is a US-based nonprofit that develops educational workshops for
communities throughout Kenya. Since its inception in 2004, the organization has
worked towards decreasing gender-based violence, increasing the amount of
school attendance in girls and building floors and desks in schools to minimize
the health risks that come from children sitting solely on dirt floors.
Alyssa’s
role with Kenya Works is to promote what the organization is doing through
videos and written articles. By converting and condensing pre-written articles,
she is able to keep everything on the website looking uniform. Alyssa has also
written four articles herself, as well as the summer 2014 newsletter for Kenya
Works. On the visual end of her work, she clipped and edited pre-recorded
material into a video about a workshop Kenya Works facilitated on
positive parenting and gender-based violence. She also matched the film with
music and slides to bring the project to completion.
The most
rewarding part of the internship to Alyssa is hearing success stories and how
people have been impacted by Kenya Works. Alyssa says she enjoys hearing about
Executive Director Julie Schaller-Schmdit’s visits to Kenya and looks forward
to continuing working with her throughout the school year.
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