Interview with Winnie Masai at the World Village Festival
Photo: InformAction.
Winnie Masai from KIOS’s partner organisation InformAction will be interviewed at the World Village Festival in Helsinki. The programme “From underdogs to a force for change” will be streamed online on Saturday 27 May at 12:10 pm EET.
How can people in marginalised communitites learn about their rights and start pushing for change? Winnie Masai leads InformAction, a Kenyan organisation aiming to bring about change from the bottom up.
By organising film screenings and community discussions, InformAction has empowered hundreds of thousands of Kenyans in rural and marginalised communities to speak out and take action in non-violent ways. While democracy and human rights are declining globally, grassroot movements consisting of ordinary people are pushing for change.
Masai will be interviewed on World Village Festival Speaker’s Stage by award-winning journalist Liselott Lindström, who has years of experience as an Africa correspondent.
The programme will be in English, and it will be interpreted to Finnish sign language. The programme will be available on-site at the Speaker’s stage and through live stream on the Festival website on Saturday 27 May at 12:10-12:30 pm Eastern European Time (UTC +2).
KIOS will also share information about our work at the Market of Possibilities of the festival. You can visit our stand T669 on Saturday at 11-21 and on Sunday at 11-19.
Winnie Masai
Winnie Masai is head of Kenyan NGO InformAction and has a long track record in human rights activism. She has served in various roles with InformAction for more than ten years. InformAction is a unique organisation that uses film and community discussions to get ordinary people in rural and marginalised areas to speak out and take action for their rights. Masai is a graduate from Moi University, Kenya.
Liselott Lindström
Liselott Lindström is an award-winning journalist who was an Africa correspondent for Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle in 2018–2021. Lindström has broadened the view people in Finland have of Africa by showing how diverse the continent is. She has also taken part in current debate on issues such as colonialism. In 2021, Lindström received Topeliuspriset, the Swedish-speaking Finnish Journalist of the Year award.
