THIS WEEK:
Kenyan Diaspora Conference
in Atlanta
Rescheduled
From May to August 2009
April 20, 2009 -- The 2009 Kenyan Diaspora International Conference has been rescheduled from May to August. In a brief email sent out late Sunday, Kihumba Ndiritu, chairman of the conference organizing committee said, “After consultation with some of the stakeholders, the Conference Organizing Committee has resolved to push back the conference date to August 20-22, 2009.”
According to Ndiritu, the committee believes this new date will give the planners and partners an amble opportunity to properly organize and prepare for the conference.
With the new date in the horizon, the planning of the conference will proceed with more deliberate haste to ensure a successful event. The committee apologized for any inconveniences caused to those participants who had already made arrangement to travel and participate in May.
Kenyan finds ties to home with local Chicago organization, the Internet
CHICAGO, IL -- As the quartet began singing, accompanied only by the shh-shh rhythm of a wooden shaker called a kayamba, Veronica Kariuki’s face eased into a smile at the familiar tune, and she sang along in Swahili.
Kariuki, who serves as the office and program manager for the United Kenyans of Chicago, is in charge of arranging events such as this international music concert for the area’s Kenyan population.
On Friday, the four-person singing group Singers of United Lands performed at the organization’s headquarters in River North. Their set included songs from each of its members’ homelands: Chile, Latvia, Korea and Kenya. more>>
LOCAL HIGHLIGHTS:
As refugees settle in, city’s translation needs evolve
Farsi. Karen. Kirundi. These are languages not often heard in Chicago.
But as refugees from Iran, Burma, and Burundi—plus a host of other nations—establish a life here, their growing communities need translation services. more>>
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