Local Heroes: empowering Nairobi’s youth through break dancing
Mviringo is a community project for kids led by the award-winning breakdance crew Sisko Reloaded. Their goal is to help children from humble backgrounds strive and thrive no matter where they come from.
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00:00 Growing in an informal settlement or what they call a slum is you're exposed to everything like if it's drugs
00:06 It's crime and and there's no option. You know, there's those are the people we look up to drug dealers
00:13 We saw kids in our hood very idle and we thought maybe we could share this skill that we have with them and
00:20 Let's have like a huge circle of breakers and we take them away from the negative impacts on the society
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00:28 My name is me by Frank, I'm a member of Cisco reloaded Cisco loaded is the pioneers
00:48 breaking crew and the owners of varying of evil battle and project
00:54 So I was born and raised in conga me
00:57 I've lived almost my entire life in conga me schooling and all that and dance has always been a part of me and
01:03 And thanks to first-generation breakers from my crew. I learned breaking from them and also from
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01:24 Bingo is so beautiful circle and all all elements of people happen in a circle
01:30 With our project
01:34 We're just focusing with the less fortunate kids and trying to to give them hope and showing them that you can even make a living
01:41 and a career out of breaking
01:43 The idea came up when you still have like training sessions and we thought like
01:49 This is they don't have anything to do. How about we start teaching them breaking and we saw like they were really interested in breaking and
01:56 They became like no breakers like some of them even have no breakers and even us
02:04 The kids don't need to pay the project is totally free for them
02:15 We keep it running by we have when we get donations from
02:18 corporates
02:21 Local leaders and also Cisco reloaded. We have a policy when we go to shows we take 30% from our from our pay
02:28 Put it to us the project
02:31 Sometimes we have like outreach where we go to different estates around can get me and we shared the the breaking skills with the kids
02:41 With breaking have to be really creative and original so you can see like
02:45 They are different even by the way. They think we are thinking capability has gone really up
02:50 And they don't have time even to pick up fight with other kids because they are busy breaking
02:55 I'm passionate about B-boy Alvin is one of the
03:06 oldest and
03:08 Alvin is an orphan and he stays with the grandma. He's here the love for breaking and
03:14 And you can see it's like and he's really passionate and it has really changed his life because he has something to live for
03:20 As long as you put your work and you believe in it and also doesn't matter your background or where you come from it's limitless
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