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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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