Using Facebook live and Youtube Live to share messages on COVID-19

Location: Nairobi and Kenya

I started this initiative when a friend i hold dear, Grace Mageka, who is locked down in Italy due to COVID-19 developed panic attacks. Reason being she is locked up in her room with no one to talk to. I therefore decided to start this initiative to enable her and fellow youth who are quarantined in the diaspora to share their experience and at least for a moment help them forget about it. The initiative later evolved where guests from the USA , Europe and Africa requested to join my show titled: REAL TALK SHOW hosted by Violet Mbiti which i previously started on Facebook but now evolved to YouTubelive.

One of the Key achievements is that Cameroon had not set up isolation centers in the rural areas but as a result of hosting Ngo Ba on our platform, they used the video link in its online campaign to advocate and isolation centers were set up in rural areas. My friend Grace Mageka gives me moral support and my scope is global. I even interviewed a Former Presidential Candidate in Kenya 2017 who is also a PhD Holder in Urban Health Research and Policy.

The challenges i face is availability of finances to purchase data and paying annual subscription since am using steamyard app in my interviews. I am getting requests to interview as many people as people but data is limited.

Support

I need USD 240 to pay streamyard app annual fee and USD 30 for a period of 6 months for purchase of data. Total I am requesting for is USD 420. At the moment I have been purchasing my own data for USD 10 but it gets depleted after 2 online interviews.

Other needs: access to information, space for online meetings.

See more:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKKaDC3f3ZM
https://m.facebook.com/violet.mbiti/videos/10163125533930585/?app=fbl
https://m.facebook.com/violet.mbiti/videos/10163120997255585/?app=fbl
https://m.facebook.com/violet.mbiti/videos/10163082588115585/?app=fbl
https://youtu.be/4Trb6n3tXTw
https://youtu.be/RiPR_DFrHng
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4UGevCC2fg

For more information contact covid19@unmgcy.org