A Voice For the Voiceless

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The Advocacy Project seeks to help community-based advocates produce, disseminate and use information, and so become more effective advocates for human rights and social justice

Kristina Rosinsky and the Undugu Society of Kenya (USK)

Kristina Rosinsky will be working with the Undugu Society of Kenya (USK) as a 2008 Peace Fellow. USK's mission is to help the socio-economic empowerment of marginalized children and youth in poor urban and rural communities by providing educational and vocational training, income generating projects and more.

She looks forward to her three months with USK since the issue of children turning to the streets is a problem that is only growing. There are now an estimated 60,000 children on the streets of Nairobi alone. This is a disturbing figure so she is eager to lend a hand to USK to help these children, as well as poor families more generally so that children don’t turn to the streets in the first place.

Last year, USK added advocacy to its efforts so this summer Kristina will be in Nairobi helping the organization improve its advocacy and lobbying work. She will be helping the poor and marginalized children and youth get their voices heard by teaching them how to take pictures and blog. Among her other tasks will be to train USK staff on how to exploit ICT tools for use in their advocacy, help them network with organizations that could help them, as well as engage communities around the world in outreach efforts.



In 2007, Kristina Rosinsky graduated with a BA in government and politics (magna cum laude) from the University of Maryland-College Park with minors in French and history.  In her senior year she wrote a thesis titled “The Effect of the Mexico City Policy on International Development: An Attack on Reproductive Health and Family Planning Worldwide,” which received high honors.

In 2006, she studied in Nice, France for five months and spent time in Huancayo, Peru teaching English to children in early 2007.

Additionally, Kristina has been working with AP first as an intern and then as the Assistant Information Manager. She hopes to use the skills and perspectives that she has gained through her work with AP to help benefit an AP partner directly this summer.

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