Instruction / manual / contacts / basic informationProject Hakuna Matata

Main goals

❖ connect the world

❖ show people, that art can help and change something

❖ that there is no we and they in a deep human way of meaning

❖ show, that we can understand to each other without any cultural context (that we have similar problems or themes to discuss)

Basic information

❖ you can find 19 interesting people from the biggest african slum Kibera (close to the Nairobi city) here: http://www.renenekuda.cz/projekt-hakuna-matata/ (now it’s a secret page)

❖ there are forms about their lifes and very short vidios

❖ students should write short stories or poems inspired by one from these people

Methodology

❖ student read a form

❖ think about themes from the form

❖ student should write a short story or a poem inspired by one from these people

❖ we will publish international collection of these short stories and poems

What is important

❖ students don’t need to know any cultural context (why? because the main goal is to show that we have similar themes to discuss or we have similar problems to resolve so we can understand each other)

❖ text (short story or poem) should be only inspired by (so it means that result couldn’t be about man or woman from the form and it couldn’t be from Kenya) – student could pick up one or two sentences from the form (sentences like My biggest fear is love. or I love swimming, but I don't know how to do it.), think about it and write his/her own story from probably Europe setting

❖ maximum lenght for a short story is 1500 words

❖ we will need texts from you until the end of February 2014 (maybe later)

❖ best languages are english or french (we will translate it into czech)

❖ we don’t need all of the 19 stories from the forms; 5 is enough

Why and who?

❖ all of the money from selling this collection we will send back to Kibera to support education of children in the slum (try google these words: Amani Kibera project)

❖ everything will organize René Nekuda from the Czech republic (teacher of creative writing at the Literární akademie university)

❖ three schools are working on this project now (Literární akademie from the Czech republic, Le Coin Bleu from Belgium and one university theacher with his students from Kenya) + maybe more schools from EACWP

What else?

❖ we are also planning a supporting concert in Prague (probably in June 2014) in MeetFactory (one of the most famous art place in Prague) with famous czech groups (like Never Sol or Floex)

❖ working on this project isn’t paid (it’s a charity project), but it could be very interesting exercise for your students

❖ we can translate your texts into czech and prepare english and czech e-book documents and send them back to you (and you can do everything you want with it)

❖ hakuna matata means in swahili no problems or problems don’t exist

Contacts

❖ you can find Project Hakuna Matata on this webside: http://www.renenekuda.cz/projekt-hakuna-matata/

❖ forms are in the navigation menu on the left side (with numbers)

❖ contact e-mail is: kontakt@renenekuda.cz (if you have any question you can write me)

❖ you can use logo of this project everywhere you want (find it also on the website)

Thank you for your interest!