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1. STOP the BULLET!
1 out of 3 young men die of a bullet by age 24.

2. What is the fate of these young boys?

3. Here is their reality...
Mathare Valley has more than a half million inhabitants
and is notorious for high crime and unemployment.
Most families survive on less than 0.80 USD a day.

4. Since 1992 Mathare Valley has witnessed at least 8 long
periods of violence and countless short ones. It took
community 6 months to restore peace after elections in
2007 only to be shaken up by a gang war in early 2010.

5. 80% of the Mathare Valley population are youth between 0
and 25. Most youth only have access to primary education.
They are the providers of their families.

6. Many survive through brewing chang’aa a lethal brew of
illegal alcohol or engaging in crime.

7. Some boys
become
drugs
runners at
the age of
5.
Because
there is
not
enough
food at
home.

8. 8 out of 10 women survive by selling their bodies. Some
girls end up in prostitution at the age of 9.
Because there is not enough food at home.

9. Maji Mazuri has worked in the slums of Mathare Valley
since mid 1980s. It works together with the community
to alleviate the challenges of poverty. It strives for
economic independence and social empowerment.

10. MAJI MAZURI YOUTH GROUP presents:
‘STOP the BULLET!’
Peace Promotion Project

11. Why is the promotion of peace in Mathare Valley
necessary?

12. STOP the BULLET!
“MAJI MAZURI has stopped many bullets for our
children. The bullet of crime, the bullet of drugs, the
bullet of poverty. My son has a shop and takes care of
me now while I see other sons who use drugs and who
get shot by the police.”
- Mama Dani (mother of a youth member)

13. How does
MAJI
MAZURI
YOUTH
GROUP
promote
PEACE?
By working
together with
the
perpetrators
and the
victims of
violence.

14. MAJI MAZURI YOUTH GROUP works with children and youth teaching them
to determine their own destiny. They have formed a network of youth
fighting for Peace in the Kenyan Ghetto: Mathare Valley.

15. The youth are trained in trauma counseling and on a weekly
basis they reach out to gangs and groups of young women.

16. The youth give workshops in peace advocacy to members of gangs and
other groups in the community. The group is currently building a network
of formal and informal youth groups throughout the ghetto to promote
peace together in the run-up to the next elections.

17. “I was shy. I did not think I was somebody…just a ghetto boy. It’s like…I
had no hope…but Maji Mazuri learned me my talent. I am the drama person
now and I teach youth. I think I would have been dead, you know, join a
gang and rob a house. The police have shot many of my friends. But now I
am an actor, I am proud…now they can’t shoot me.” Buda (youth member )

18. STOP the BULLET!
No MAJI MAZURI
YOUTH member has
ever been involved in
any type of violence.
MAJI MAZURI YOUTH
reach out to other
youth in the
community to give
them the skills to
promote peace.

19. The youth from gangs are, at the same time, invited
to join a micro-credit program. As peace advocates
and as small business owners these youth will
avoid being mobilized in violence in the future

20. Help us
• 'Stop the Bullet!'
Maji Mazuri Youth
are making a difference in Mathare
through sports, talent
development, community
awareness, the Green Heroes, etc
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