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Bwette Daniel Gilbert aka Gilbert Frank Daniels, is one of the co-founder of thecommunity dance Jericho Breakers (http://jerichobreakers.webs.com) that is empowering youth through performing arts.He has also a community practitioner / activist at Bavubuka Foundation,has taken up the challenge to create a positive voice for the youth & himself throughcommiting time at Bavubuka Foundation (http://bavubukacommunity.blogspot.com) to learn various skills like photography,community journalism, graphics designs among other skills that has opened upopportunities for hi s life to work with local & international youth communitiesthrough these skills.His commitment in community work earned him to be chosen as one of the finalistin the youth enterprenuers in Young Achievers Awards.Gilbert strongly believes that through he can fully represent his community& country through community activities he engages himself intoto bring about peace, love, equality and unity.Gilbert's commitment with community work has also earned an opportunity towork with other youth across the globe exercising the skill of journalism withYOUTH JOURNALISM INTERNATIONAL (http://youthjournalism.org) ...He is also extending the skills he has learnt from Bavubuka Foundation tohigh schools with an aim of helping the young, talented youth of Uganda gainconfidence through journalism & photography in promoting their culture & their voiceon a global scale."OUR VOICE SHALL BE HEARD TODAY & WILL BE ECHOED IN THE FUTURE LIVES NEXT GENERATION"http://bavubukacommunity.blogspot.com

Bwette
Daniel
aka Gilbert Frank Daniels
, a co-founder & director of THE JERICHO BREAKERS (http://jerichobreakers.webs.com ) has taken up the challenge to create a positive voice for the youth, believing that it is time for revolutionary change in Uganda and Africa as a whole. I strongly believes that through performing arts like dancing [break dancing and other types of dances, craft making, poetry,multimedia, positive & conscious music a movement that represents peace, love, equality and unity can & will be established. I am is dedicated to looking out for dance group as it sets itself as an example in community in using dance as a tool change the lives of the youth in the community in Uganda, Africa & global wise. The aim is to help the young, talented youth of Uganda gain confidence in promoting their culture on a global scale. I utilize my time in youth rights activism through blogging, poetry graphics, video graphy among other activities. I am also volunteering in a Hip Hop community called Bavubuka All Stars ( http://bavubuka.org) as - a blogger, - graphics developer, - poet - artist - photographer - video grapher - Pod caster [capturing youth voices in the slum & ghettos developing them at taking them to the poeple concerned & posting on the internet]

AM also a co-founder of "The Hip Hop Truth Journalist" which is composed of youth who are passionate with graphic & film making dedicated to document life in the ghettos of Africa. We're based based in Uganda but open up a page on face book where people with the same passion can upload there work on this link: http://www.facebook.com/pages/THE-AFRICAS-GHETTO-MOVEMENT/116383681740420?v=wall&ref=ts

I am Hivos because

i want to connect to positive minds in the world.
i also want to share ideas through exchange programmes, debates and forums
i'm connected to community foundations & projects the are using the resoursec like visual & performing arts to change the youth's life & i wanna get to know more people with same ideas.

Am passionate about multimedia & graphics & i would like to meet people with the same passion so we can use it as a tool to change people's lives across the globe

Links

» | Bavubuka Community Revolution
» | Change Makers (Bwette Daniels Gilbert)
» | Street 256
» | Youth Multimedia Hub
» | Jericho Breakers
» | Youth Journalism International

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