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Neighbours Initiative Alliance (NIA) is a Kenyan NGO, based in Kajiado Town. It has been in operation since the mid-1990s. Since its creation it has initiated nine so-called neighbourhood organizations in the Central, Ngong, and Magadi divisions of Kajiado District, in southern Kenya. These groupings are used to address critical issues and conduct development in these, foremost, Maasai inhabited areas.
NIA operates four core programmes, of which the ‘Land Justice Programme’ aims to educate the local people about the value of land. By early 2003, NIA in a new campaign financially supported by CAFOD (UK) and the Swiss Lenten Campaign, designed and locally fabricated 36 billboards that carried the title of the1992 book “Selling Wealth to Buy Poverty”.
These English lines were translated in both Maa (Osina orok emirata enkop = selling of land will result in extreme poverty) and Kiswahili (Kuuza uridhi kununua umasikiri = selling your natural inheritance (=land) will make you poor). In addition, a reference was made to a verse from the bible (Leviticus 25:23): "The land shall not be sold forever: for the land is mine, for ye are strangers and sojourners with me". On the backside of the billboard children’s rights and HIV/AIDS are addressed.
For further information please contact Mr. Kenny Matampash:
NIA@africaonline.co.ke
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Marcel Rutten next to a Billboard |
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