Our Vision Is:
To see an informed and healthy society
Our Mission Is:
To promote gender equality, health and well-being, economic empowerment and good governance through creative arts, policy art-vocacy and capacity building.
Motto:
Changing lives with a touch of art.
Changing lives with a touch Of Art.
Linda Arts Organization is a non-profit making arts-based Community Based Organization. Formed on two concrete values; volunteerism and partnership, we utilize the foundation of the creative arts, a powerful catalyst for art-ivism, to create & innovate, bringing onto canvas the ideas and stories of rights holders that we normally don't see or hear in mainstream outlets. We connect artists to artists, and communities with artists, through our art-vocacy forums, bridging together multiple people and themes to facilitate empathy, understanding and real change. We work with storytellers and creatives who use art, innovative tech and creativity to transform social, gender and cultural norms that continue to perpetuate gender and health inequalities, unemployment and bad governance.
Core Values:
a) Culture and art defines us.
b) We value networking and partnership.
c) We value voluntarism.
d) We value positive change.
e) We are team players.
OBJECTIVES
- Combine and disseminate thematic, correct and useful information that empower the youth with knowledge and skills through strategic interventions as designed and created by Linda Arts and approved by the relevant authorities.
- Undertake advocacy work in Health awareness focusing on Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR).
- Champion for and promote women and girls’ rights by creating awareness on Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) amongst this population and formulating ways to preventing SGBV.
- Network with governmental & non-governmental organizations to share and formulate strategies that will assist in improving the social and economic standards of the women and girls.
CURRENT PROGRAMS
- GBV PREVENTION ADVOCACY.
Through support from the Population Reference Bureau (PRB) USA, Linda Arts undertakes policy advocacy work focusing on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) eradication, a form of GBV by use of multimedia. Linda Arts is a beneficiary of The PACE (Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health) Youth Multimedia Program where the team was trained on how to use multimedia for policy advocacy. In the program, Linda Arts acquired skills on how to tell compelling health and development stories and building movements for policy change within our communities through innovative digital campaigns.
Through this we are now able to share powerful advocacy messages targeting local populations and key decision makers. This is a youth led initiative and focuses on building the technical skills of young advocates, and creating cross-country networks of youth leaders passionate about population dynamics and reproductive health. This activity has led to the formation of a taskforce in Narok County currently in the process of drafting a County FGM Policy 2021 that will see to it that FGM is no longer an issue in Narok County.
- THE GAME FOR THE WORLD (GFTW) SCHOOL HEALTH PROGRAM.
Through the partnership and support of The Games For Life Foundation and the Rotary International, Linda Arts uses innovative board games that bare messages on Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) to educate the young adolescents in schools on Reproductive Health. We invent board games, which are educative and interactive, portable, self-contained, learner-led and don’t always need a specialist facilitator and take teachers of the respective schools in Narok County on a facilitator’s training to equip them with the necessary skills required to moderate the GFTW learning tool in schools. Targeted groups learn more in less time through this learning tool, so the training will be more effective and fun. By use of these board games in designated safe spaces, we are guaranteed of a fruitful discussion on RH hence influence behaviour change amongst this population.
- CULTURAL AND VOLUNTEER EXCHANGE PROGRAMS.
The Linda Arts Intercultural Exchange Programs is an international program that provides a multicultural studying chance to help people develop the knowledge, experience, and understanding needed to create a fair and tranquil world.