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Street art in Kenya to fight against coronavirus infections

2021-01-25T02:22:47.043Z


Art 360 Kibera, a group of artists from the largest suburb of Nairobi, strives to raise awareness in the community of the importance of wearing a mask and following social distance through their graffiti to stop COVID-19. And local journalists tell it in this video


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Art informs and empowers.

This is what Art 360 Kibera believes, a group of artists from the Kibera suburb, in Nairobi, who dedicate their efforts to raising awareness in the community of the importance of wearing a mask and fulfilling social distance through their graffiti.

Kenya, which is experiencing a second wave of covid-19 these days, registers almost 100,000 cases of coronavirus and more than 1,700 deaths since the pandemic began.

"The drawings remind you of the importance of wearing a mask, so we are achieving a change," explains one of the young women in this video, the work of local journalists from the African Slum Journal project, which Planeta Futuro publishes periodically exclusively.

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Source: elparis

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