Collins Odhiambo

I am a journalist and a Youth activist.

Journalist and Youth activist.
Kenya
codhiamboo@gmail.com

I am a 23 year old activist working on citizen journalism. My work revolves around a community newspaper called 'Kibera Journal' and an online news channel called 'Kibera News Network'.When am not in the computers writing stories and running around the slums with a camera, am always found organizing demonstrations in the slums or facilitating in youth forums where I motivate young people to be the agents of social change. Something i enjoy quite a lot

Am also one of the core members of Activista Kenya who firmly believes in the power of youths. Currently, I am one of the convenors of a youths movement from all the slums in Kenya called' L.I.S.T.' (Living in shanty towns).

 

Latest blogs

The struggles of a smallholder farmer

Despite growing the majority of food in Kenya, women farmers receive little support from our Government. This World Food Day, ActionAid travelled to different parts of the country to raise awareness...
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Collins Odhiambo

Håbet lever i Østafrika

Hun var et offer for den fødevarekrise, der truede livet for millioner af mennesker over hele Østafrika for et år siden. For hende, kom hjælpen i tide, og hun overlevede. ActionAids udsendte har mødt...
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Collins Odhiambo

Sex for food

With urban hunger on the rise in Kenya during tough economic times, young girls in Kibera slums are trading their bodies with older men for food. Wambua looks like your average 12-year-old. She is...
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Collins Odhiambo

One year later, there is hope

She was a victim of the food crisis that threatened the lives of millions of people across East Africa a year ago. To her, help came in time and she survived. I have met six-year-old Sadia Abdullah,...
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Collins Odhiambo

COP17 - a travelling circus?

I have to say from the onset that I am not an activist as such. In fact, I don’t have the grace, power and consistency to be one, but I am a social noisemaker. Social evils that affect the masses...
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Collins Odhiambo

Deadly climate change is happening right now and right here in Africa

Even with all the stand-offs, mistrust and sharp differences of opinion on how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that continue to mar this year’s climate summit in Durban, some of the people who are...
Pokot woman, collect water from dried watering hole near Tangulbei, East Pokot,
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Collins Odhiambo

We ask our governments not to sell us out, it's a planetary emergency

While gathering at the ‘speaker’s corner’ near the International Convention Centre, civil society organizations from different countries and regions made a plea not to be sold down the river by the...
In Takaba, a cow becomes a victim of the drought
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Collins Odhiambo

Nizigama Sylvane: Let the world hear our call for action

After travelling through nine countries, what really amazes me is the attention the caravan continues to receive in the different countries it passes through. Everywhere there is colour and splendour...
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Collins Odhiambo

The City of Kings

After being on the road for a whole day and night, we finally reached our destination: The City of the Kings, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.Bulawayo is a city that's been known for its people's ritual...
Bulawayo Zimbabwe
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Collins Odhiambo

A call for local adaptations in fighting climate change

Maria Karinga is a 32-year old farmer from Masulana village, Karonga District, in the dry savannah zone on the Tanzanian - Malawian border. She is a wife and a mother of five. She is just one of the...
Maria Karinga is a 32-year old farmer from Masulana village, Karonga District
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Collins Odhiambo
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