WALA! Lilongwe2Rabat
Project Goal.
To explore the role adoption and use of clean and renewable energy (solar lights) can play in powering the creative industry and promoting education for disadvantaged communities.
Project description
This collaborative project, aims to explore how access to clean renewable energy (solar lights) in remote schools and a refugee can contribute to increased productivity by the users in both their academic and creative lives.
Through the project, we want engage some of our creatives in the setting up of solar libraries in rural schools with the support of a solar lights supplier, SunnyMoney Malawi. Sunny Money Malawi is currently piloting light libraries in 2 schools. The challenge is on how to measure impact and come up with a way of engaging students and parents to use the solar lights and increase productivity.
The people from the creative industry will become mentors for the students and the youth from the refugee camp in Malawi and will help them explore different career paths that exist in the creative industry while also hosting different competitions in the areas to help them compete academically and showcase their talents.
These creatives then will help the students through mentorship and performances to look at talent as an alternative noble way of earning a living and also help the youth at the refugees camp use their creative expressions to redefine their freedom. We intend to use the industry professionals in the creative industry to give different assignments to the students through which they will be assessed at the end of the project and also renewable energy experts from SunnyMoney who provide after-sales and help the community members buy solar lights from their agents and dealers at affordable prices even on Pay as You Go plans.
Malawi does not have proper arts and infrastructure and role models in the arts and cultural spaces, which makes motivating students and parents to pursue the arts a big challenge. Hiba Foundation our partner from Morocco whose main mission consists in developing a mature cultural and artistic industry in Morocco runs physical (a cinema, a cultural coffee space, a cultural lab, a recording studio and previously a media library) and online spaces (resources center) that contribute to empower artists and all their ecosystem. So when the idea of this project came up, we thought it would be a great opportunity to share experiences between Moroccans and their Malawian counterparts, and also widen our perspectives of collaboration. The idea is to promote the adoption and use of renewable energy in Africa by linking it with rewards that the creatives from disadvantaged backgrounds who use solar power in nurturing their talents and acquiring an education can gain. We therefore will be able to use the Hiba Foundation knowledge and experience in making art and marketing it.
The collaboration also has a mission to support Malawian and Moroccan creatives by equipping them with the right collaboration, industry knowledge and investment to look at arts as a business while advocating for clean energy use and stimulating learning for disadvantaged students and refugees.
Kuwala Creatives is a collective of multidisciplinary creatives which has the vision to help creatives from disadvantaged backgrounds make it big by exploring different ways in which to stimulate creativity and arts for development.
The project will help Kuwala Creatives get insights into how Hiba Foundation started and sustains its programs and networks and use their existing expertise to run this project while Hiba Foundation will be learning how solar lights can help creatives do more.
It will also help us explore and learn about the 2 Arts and Culture landscapes. This will assist in creating synergy and collaboration between the creatives of the 2 countries in solving social challenges using the arts and also explore business linkages through utilizing the foundation's spaces and work with the owners : These include: Visa For Music, Resource center, Hiba_REC while linking with other interesting players in Morocco arts and culture, such as co-working spaces and start-up incubators, cultural institutions like Théâtre Pour Tous, l’Uzine, L’Appartement 22.
To explore the role adoption and use of clean and renewable energy (solar lights) can play in powering the creative industry and promoting education for disadvantaged communities.
Project description
This collaborative project, aims to explore how access to clean renewable energy (solar lights) in remote schools and a refugee can contribute to increased productivity by the users in both their academic and creative lives.
Through the project, we want engage some of our creatives in the setting up of solar libraries in rural schools with the support of a solar lights supplier, SunnyMoney Malawi. Sunny Money Malawi is currently piloting light libraries in 2 schools. The challenge is on how to measure impact and come up with a way of engaging students and parents to use the solar lights and increase productivity.
The people from the creative industry will become mentors for the students and the youth from the refugee camp in Malawi and will help them explore different career paths that exist in the creative industry while also hosting different competitions in the areas to help them compete academically and showcase their talents.
These creatives then will help the students through mentorship and performances to look at talent as an alternative noble way of earning a living and also help the youth at the refugees camp use their creative expressions to redefine their freedom. We intend to use the industry professionals in the creative industry to give different assignments to the students through which they will be assessed at the end of the project and also renewable energy experts from SunnyMoney who provide after-sales and help the community members buy solar lights from their agents and dealers at affordable prices even on Pay as You Go plans.
Malawi does not have proper arts and infrastructure and role models in the arts and cultural spaces, which makes motivating students and parents to pursue the arts a big challenge. Hiba Foundation our partner from Morocco whose main mission consists in developing a mature cultural and artistic industry in Morocco runs physical (a cinema, a cultural coffee space, a cultural lab, a recording studio and previously a media library) and online spaces (resources center) that contribute to empower artists and all their ecosystem. So when the idea of this project came up, we thought it would be a great opportunity to share experiences between Moroccans and their Malawian counterparts, and also widen our perspectives of collaboration. The idea is to promote the adoption and use of renewable energy in Africa by linking it with rewards that the creatives from disadvantaged backgrounds who use solar power in nurturing their talents and acquiring an education can gain. We therefore will be able to use the Hiba Foundation knowledge and experience in making art and marketing it.
The collaboration also has a mission to support Malawian and Moroccan creatives by equipping them with the right collaboration, industry knowledge and investment to look at arts as a business while advocating for clean energy use and stimulating learning for disadvantaged students and refugees.
Kuwala Creatives is a collective of multidisciplinary creatives which has the vision to help creatives from disadvantaged backgrounds make it big by exploring different ways in which to stimulate creativity and arts for development.
The project will help Kuwala Creatives get insights into how Hiba Foundation started and sustains its programs and networks and use their existing expertise to run this project while Hiba Foundation will be learning how solar lights can help creatives do more.
It will also help us explore and learn about the 2 Arts and Culture landscapes. This will assist in creating synergy and collaboration between the creatives of the 2 countries in solving social challenges using the arts and also explore business linkages through utilizing the foundation's spaces and work with the owners : These include: Visa For Music, Resource center, Hiba_REC while linking with other interesting players in Morocco arts and culture, such as co-working spaces and start-up incubators, cultural institutions like Théâtre Pour Tous, l’Uzine, L’Appartement 22.
