Triangle Arts Trust
Associação Cultural VideoBrasil
Caribbean Contemporary Arts
Komunitas Utan Kayu
Jant-Bi
ZIFF
APAC
Drik Picture Library
Mysa
SuperSudaca
REYUM Institute of Arts and Culture
UCAD
Arthub Arab Image Foundation
Compagnie Falinga ATA Cinematheque de Tanger About the Network Partnerships
Since 1987, MYSA has pioneered many innovations in youth sports, environmental improvement and community development. The MYSA football league, with over 1000 teams from Mathare and the engulfing slums of Nairobi, does more than simply keep the kids physically fit and off the street; every weekend, 25-30 teams from MYSA clear the garbage and ditches around their homes. In August 1997, the Shootback Photography Programme was introduced not only to strengthen co-operative relationships between MYSA youth as well as offer a vocational outlet for their creative energies but also to be a medium of expression on their likes and dislikes in the slums. In 2003 MYSA received a Prince Claus Award from which the relation developed.
By connecting the MYSA Academy to the Prince Claus Fund’s network, both envisage a broadening of chances to reach out to similar projects in neighboring African countries and to make their knowledge and network available for cultural development. MYSA has already links with refugee camps and beyond having the capacity to extend its activities and links into zones of silence and crucial areas of migration. The reach of the MYSA network into these areas is of importance for the Prince Claus Fund. Just as football, a cultural activity in its own right, has been used as a tool for encouraging co-operation, raising self esteem and promoting physical and environmental health in the Mathare community, video productions and photography by and for the youth themselves has been a powerful developmental, educational and vocational tool. Cultural activities are planned to run parallel to the sporting activities.
MYSA, Network Partner from 15 April 2005 to 14 April 2008. They receive an amount of 174.800 Euros for this period of three years.
A team of MYSA visited the office of the Prince Claus Fund 4 June 2007. They were in the Netherlands for a competition.
Photo: Fred Hoogervorst
In Memoriam Peter Serry
February 2009, the Prince Claus Fund is deeply saddened by the death of former Director of MYSA Peter Serry
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On 4 June 2006, Peter Serry, former Director of MYSA and coaching instructor, has been awarded the UEFA-B Diploma at a festive ceremony in Holland attended by former Dutch international player, Ajax U23 Coach and MYSA-friend Aaron Winter and by Zambian National Coach and MYSA-friend Kalusha Bwalya. Mysa, Kenya, is a networkpartner of the Prince Claus Fund.read more
For information on the Network programme please contact Joumana El Zein J.elzein@princeclausfund.nl