"Blickwechsel", is VIDC's podcast for a another, a new look at the world. With this Podcast we want to bring those voices into the spotlight that we rarely hear in Austria: Activists and scientists from the Global South; people who come from our focus regions, who are directly affected, with whom we collaborate on events or studies. Who have an insight that we don't have, whose views open up new perspectives for us.
Sybille Straubinger, Director of the Vienna Institute for International Dialogue and Cooperation, guides this Podcast. The VIDC is a think tank founded in 1962 by the later Chancellor Bruno Kreisky together with prominent politicians of the so-called Global South. Being in dialogue, always on the basis of equality and respect, and making the voices from the South heard in Austria (and not talking about them), that is the basic premise of our work - and of this Podcast.
In this episode we explore how comprehensive sexuality education and vocational training can empower girls and transform lives in Kenya. Mercy Kamau is the Executive Director of the NGO Mathare Children Fund Panairobi. She works with teenage mothers in Mathare/Nairobi, one of the largest informal settlements with half a million people. Kamau educates girls about economic empowerment, sexual health, and gender equality. An inspiring conversation about the fight for gender justice in Kenya, the changing landscape of development funding, and what global actors can do to make gender programs more effective and transformative.
