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DESCRIPTION:\nWahu Kaara is a globally renowned Kenyan educator, activist and 
 campaigner for social justice. A prolific writer, poet and speaker, Wahu 
 has devoted her time and energy to\ncivic engagement and incisive analysis 
 of the global political and economic architecture, with a special focus on 
 the impact of globalization on the countries of the South, especially 
 Africa. She has campaigned and written extensively on debt, aid, 
 privatization and human rights and has been a leader in the Africa and 
 Kenya Social Forum councils that organized the inaugural World Social Forum 
 in Africa in Nairobi in January 2007.\n\nWahu was part of the 1,000 women 
 Nobel Peace Prize nominees for the year 2005. With Brazilian President Lula 
 Ignacio d’ Silva, she launched the Global Call to Action\nagainst Poverty 
 (GCAP) in Porto Alegre, Brazil in January 2005 - the single largest Global 
 mobilization of citizens against poverty. Since 2005, Wahu has been a 
 member of\nand advocate for Jubilee San Diego, raising awareness of the 
 debt crisis of the most impoverished countries in the world.\nFormerly 
 Ecumenical Coordinator for the United Nations Millennium Development 
 Goals,\n\nWahu now serves as the Executive Director of the Kenya Debt 
 Relief Network (KENDREN), an organization she helped found in 1999 which 
 has been instrumental in shaping and deepening the understanding and debate 
 around economic policy, good\ngovernance and constitution-making at the 
 local levels, with specific focus on how these impact women.\nA gender 
 trainer and community mobilizer, Wahu has been at the lead of integrating 
 local communities into the decision making process. In addition to serving 
 on the council\nof the Africa Social Forum and the Africa Women Economic 
 Policy Network, she is currently involved in the creation of the Africa 
 Mother’s Foundation, a nascent continental body that will serve to 
 document the richness of women’s contribution in the\ndevelopment of 
 Africa and allow their voices to be heard.\n\nWahu was born in 1952 at the 
 height of the Kenyan independence struggle and was brought up in Eldoret in 
 the Rift Valley. Injustices in Kenya during her childhood years\nleft a 
 mark on her and provoked her current quest for social justice. 
 \n\nDetermined to walk the talk of empowering women, not just as a support 
 system but as part of the decision-making process and agents of social 
 transformation, Wahu ran unsuccessfully for a parliamentary seat in the 
 just concluded national elections of December 2007 and plans to run for 
 President of Kenya in 
 2012.\n\n\nhttp://www.thegemfoundation.org/documents/AFNOV09/Profile_WahuKaara.pdf\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/10/30/18662725.php
SUMMARY:Ms. Wahu Kaara, Director, Kenya Debt Relief Network - Women's Caucus Luncheon/Speaker
LOCATION:Westin St. Francis Hotel -  African Studies Association Conference\n\nalso 
 simultaneous broadcast at the San Francisco Public Library 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/10/30/18662725.php
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