Past Events

                                 

                                                          Peace Concert

Giving Hope will held a youth-led Choose Peace! Concert on  the International Youth Day (IYD) on  12th August 2012.  This event was aimed at rekindling the spirit of peace among  youth. Youths from different parts of East Africa come at the August  7th Memorial Park in the spirit of  saying “NO” to  violence,  to better their life  prepared to cope, respond  and  resist violence and manipulation. The Concert featured performances by luminar  multi-award winning artist Juliani of the Kama Si Sisi social  initiative, a  photo exhibition on Kenya Post Election Violence by  photojournalist  and activist Boniface Mwangi of the Picha Mtaani and  vulture-politician graffiti fame among other renowned  artists, youthful peace ambassadors and exemplary political  leaders.  Also their were other features present e.g. audio-visual   documentaries  and live testimonies by youth on Kenya PEV, Rwanda  Genocide and  Uganda’s LRA abductions and hostilities. In attendance were youths  from Kenya (all counties), Uganda,  Rwanda,  Burundi and Tanzania.

 

Annual Christmas Cantata

A Christmas Musical concert was held Last year, 
on the 18th December 2011 and 2012 subsequently at the 
August 7th memorial park .The main objectives were;

• To provide an opportunity for families and friends
 to get together during the festive season.

• To give companies an opportunity to participate in
 giving back to the
community.

• To give companies an opportunity to sponsor a 
Christmas event.

• To promote upcoming artists.

The children were given a chance to make personal Christmas cards for their parents. 
The concert attracted both the young, old, music lovers and families.  Main Sponsors
 for the event were:
- General Motors
- Co-operative Bank of Kenya.
- Nation Media Group
- Unga Ltd
- Mr.George Kagiri- Architerion Architects.

Sponsors for the event were entitled to:
- Complimentary tickets.
- Advertisement of logo as a sponsor and the main event banner.
- Mentions by MC during the event.
- Area to enable sponsors promote their products/services to guests during the event.