When Kelvin and his friends filmed their own version of a US pop song, they never knew it would be such a hit – especially amongst young people just like him.
Kelvin Batumike knew youth faced a bleak future in his hometown of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo.
So in 2013, he and his friends founded Kivu Youth Entertainment as an alternative to joining militia groups.“The eastern part of our country has been affected by conflict and most of the time the vulnerable are the youth. We have grown up in a climate of conflict and that is how other friends and I got the idea to start Kivu Youth Entertainment,” Mr Batumike, Director of Kivu Youth Entertainment, told Peace News Network.
“We recruit a lot of young, talented,…
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