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To join us contact booking by email: booking.greenkordofan@gmail.com
Never to be forgotten we are honouring all victims of:

• War
• Terrorism
• Religious extremism
• Political violence
• Police brutality
• Ethnic violence
• Gender-based violence
• Climate and resource conflict
• Organised crime
• Slavery & human trafficking
• Gang violence

    
This event particular is dedicated to the support of children,women and vulnerable people in Yida camp, South Sudan who have experienced and are still dealing with the aftermath of the above while dealing now with the impact of a global pandemic.

Professor Mukesh Kapila, CBE Dr Kapila has extensive experience in global and public health, international development, humanitarian affairs, conflict and security issues, human rights and diplomacy, and social entrepreneurship, with substantive leadership roles in government, United Nations system and multilateral agencies, International Red Cross and Red Crescent, civil society, and academia.
His work has taken him to some 120 countries in all continents. Originally schooled in India and England, Dr Kapila graduated in medicine from the University of Oxford and received postgraduate qualifications in public health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
www.mukeshkapila.org
He is the author of:
No stranger to kindness
Against a Tide of Evil - https://youtu.be/WEUWU8JwnDI
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Maya Zein
 
Maya Zein grew up in Houston, Texas where she was introduced to competitive junior tennis at the Zina Garrison Tennis Academy together with her 3 sisters and went on to play collegiate tennis at the University of Texas at Austin, one of the top women's tennis programs in the country. After graduating with a bachelor's degree in psychology in 2012, she spent 3 years teaching tennis at a local country club and was an assistant tennis coach at The Kinkaid School in Houston.


In 2015, Maya pivoted and began her career in finance as an investment banker at the Oil & Gas Investment Banking division of Scotiabank, a Canadian bank, in Houston. Maya is currently on sabbatical in Toronto, Canada preparing for the CFA Level I exam in December and plans to continue pursuing a career in finance. She is an active member of SAPAA and has participated as a panelist in previous SAPAA events. She also enjoys playing tennis and traveling.

Mr Peter Verney (FGM/C)
Mr Verney has worked in and on Sudanese affairs since 1977, as a teacher, lecturer, aid and development worker, researcher and journalist. Editor of Sudan Update's news digest in the 1990s, he has written reports on Sudan up to the present day, including the first book to deal with oil and conflict. He was a special adviser on Darfur to the House of Commons' International Development Committee (2005), and has briefed the UN Environment Programme, RedR, Medecins Sans Frontieres, UK Ministry of Defence and Members of the European Parliament. He has written for Anti-Slavery International, Article 19, Index on Censorship, Minority Rights Group, the Oxford University Refugee Studies Programme website, US Lawyers' Committee for Human Rights, and Freemuse (World Conference on Music and Censorship). Since 1999 he has assisted over 1200 Sudanese asylum cases, with over 45 court appearances, including UK Country Guidance cases on Darfur and Coptic Christians. Listed as a “Sudan Country Expert” by the Immigration Law Practitioners' Association (ILPA) in Britain, he has also given evidence by telephone to US asylum courts.

Peter Moszynski is a documentary maker, a journalist specialising in humanitarian issues, done research on post war reconstruction in South Sudan, where he was working on post conflict reconstruction. He has been closely involved with the two Sudan for the past 40 years. He was teaching Sudanese history in the Sudan’s only teacher training college when war broke out and sharia law was imposed in 1983. Peter was one of the first people to bring that conflict to international attention and to campaign for the rights of the Nuba and Sudan’s other marginalised people. ​

Kay sharp:

Kay is a Folkestone based, motivated by her own family history as holocaust survivors to response to the call of Green Kordofan and support their campaign to raise public awareness, aid war displaced Sudanese children at refugee camps in Sudan as they are invisible to many.




“I am so please to know that Raga and Green Kordofan are doing what they can to help those, who, like my mum who fled persecution and fear. Ever hopeful that one day we can all live in peace without labels or yellow stars and genocide will be a thing of the past.”

 Dau Doldol,
Mr. Dau is ACE scholar, inspirational young man, originally from South Sudan. He has been engaging with different platform for raising money & awareness for the famine crisis in South Sudan.
Here are a few links of his activities:
Liberty Oilfield Services:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbBgv8-ZmEQ


Being DAU- Short Film:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoFksN8qQxI

We are delighted that our friends Sonja Miley ( Trustee) and Maddy Crowther of Waging Peace will be will be joining us on 21 September to mark INTERNATIONAL PEACE DAY. Sonja and Maddy visited Yida Refugee Camp in 2018 so they will bring first-hand knowledge to our team of panellists.
Book now for this unique event!

 As a special treat, two fabulous and wonderful artists!
​ They will put us all in a joyful mood with their amazing singing.
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• The Mozambican born & International Jazz singer and songwriter MAIUKO
• And the Sudanese Artist Shurooq Abualnaas. 

Born in Mozambique of royal Swazi and Portuguese ancestry, Maiuko has her very own style, blending Jazz, Afro-Blues, African inspired rhythms, and Portuguese melodies into one timeless language of music. Throughout her career, she has won Awards for Best Newcomer, Female Performer of the year, Best Female Voice, Best uploaded on Get-out-there, and most recently for Multifaceted Artist.
She has also collaborated with and appeared worldwide in prestigious venues and festivals alongside musical greats, such as; Max Middleton, Chris Difford, Dick Pearce, Jeff Beck, Noel McCalla, Sara Tavares, Carmen Souza, to mention but a few.
Based in the UK, Maiuko is currently writing an album "Rotten Fruit" with guitarist & double bassist Alex Keen, violinist Paul Brasington, and special guests pianist Martin Virgo, and Mozambican percussionist/ drummer Elias Kacomanolis, plus further exciting collaborations with world-renowned musicians. 

​SHUROOQ ABU ELNAAS is a Sudanese vocalist whose songs are filled with drama and great depth; her musical repertoire spanning the Sahel and Arab world.
 As well as supporting freedom of expression and women's rights, Shurooq has spoken out strongly against FGM. In the UK she has witnessed the plight of other Sudanese who have fled human rights abuses.In addition to Sudanese social events across the UK, Shurooq has sung at events for Amnesty International (Islington Green, 2018), London Churches Refugee Fund (Kensington United Reform Church, 2018) and Christian Aid (Sutton Church, May 2019).
 
Shurooq gave a performance for the Sudan Studies Society UK Symposium at SOAS in 2016, and took part in the Academy of Art and Arabic Heritage Chorale - maestro Basil Saleh (Ealing Town Hall, May 2018).  There are various ways to spell her name in English, so expect some inconsistencies!
Shurooq - YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaauC7cAvZvF2aC_ez8r5gw/videos

Moderated by former BBC world service producer Helen Sharp & the editor of Folklife.

Helen worked as a Radio Producer for the BBC World Service and Radio 4 making medical and science programmes for 17 years.  I reported from many different countries from Bangladesh to the USA.   Since leaving the BBC in 2011, I've been the Education Project Leader for Academy FM Folkestone, the charity community radio station in Folkestone.  There, I've worked with young people from age 5 to early 20s on getting access to employment in our deprived town.  I've also worked on award-winning science and arts education programmes funded by The Wellcome Trust and Arts Council England.   I am also the editor of Folklife - a website promoting Folkestone to visitors, new and current residents alike.   In my spare time I create silver jewellery, cook, knit and have two children who sail a lot. 
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 Will you join us?
This a free to attend but donation is welcome 
To donate to help us prepare for the impact of COVID-19
Donate to Green Kordofan at:
http://www.totalgiving.co.uk/charity/green-kordofan
https://www.justgiving.com/green-kordofan
We will be adding More details about our guests and contributors to the Event Details section soon,Stay tuned for update.

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Once they lived in Murderland
Where the strong drive out the weak
Now, refugees in Muckaboutland
They are playing hide-and-seek
 
He counts to twenty, opens up his eyes
There is no-one to be seen
He remembers where they used to hide
Places he himself has seen
He remembers faces
Memory is full of hiding-places
 
Are they hiding behind the fire-haze?
The cattle-bones that decorate
The weary, gut-red earth?
 
He opens up his eyes and plays-
It's either that or else to hate
This outland of his birth
 
Are they behind the new latrines?
The grasses by the wire fence?
The gasoline bottles?
 
He giggles; he is caught between
The pleasure and anxiety of suspense-
“Coming for you; ready or not”
 
“Coming for you” doesn't sound quite right
But he remembers hearing it, at night-
He remembers eyes and covered faces -
Memory has no hiding-places
 
Perfect for these young veterans of war
This game of parts- the counting;
The hiding; the laughter and the fear;
The cry of “Coming for you”; the mounting
Anxiety; the mounting urge to giggle-
This is, after all, just play -
The need to stay still, not to wriggle;
The longing not to give themselves away.
The running, the discovery, the capture;
All ends, this time, in a sort of rapture.
 
Wiping away the tears we shed for life
Hope is our watchword
We hang to it by our fingernails -
The inchmeal progress – two steps forward,
One step back – money from bring-and-buy sales,
Half-marathons- one step forward, two steps back.
The rules of this game are complicated-
Racing blindfold, legs wrapped in a sack
Both legs and thoughts are unarticulated
Yet they keep on going down the track
Towards an unseen winning-post- they find the knack
Of smiling, having fun, imagining that they are racing homeward.
 
For a moment, while they run the race
Murderland leaves no traces
On their bright refulgent faces -
Memory ; hiding-places.
 

 Anthony White settled in Folkestone 3 years ago and is  now a regular at open mike/performance poetry events. He is also one of Poets' Corner Folkestone ("Poetry in the street; poetry for everyone").  Anthony wrote and performed 'Hide-and-Seek' in Aid of Green Kordofan cause, you can discover more about him by visiting his blog at freeversefolkestone.wordpress.com.

Come join us for a day filled with music,fun and art to warm up your winter weekend and get you ready for the festive season!

The proceedings will be in aid of Green Kordofan, a charity that supports children in refugee camps in South Sudan through sports. Your support is particularly important because so many young people have been affected by the conflict in the region – 6 out of 10 South Sudanese children are refugees.
 
 Hosted by Lucy Freeman

​The event will feature the following artists including a reading by poet Anthony White, Josie Carter, arike stan grant on harmonica 

​Native Oyster Band: a funky, electrifying experience with tight, powerful horn arrangements and creamy, soulful vocals from traditional second-line classics through Americana, 70’s funk, right up to full on hip-hop and R&B, all given the Delta city treatment, Whitstable style
They will be accompanied by the awesome trombone Annie whitehead.

Maiuko: born in Mozambique of Royal Swazi ancestry, the multi-award
Winner, singer-songwriter
​“Maiuko is blessed with a smoky and powerful voice that defies the limitations of one particular genre” (Ecos Magazine/ The Independent (Kevin Le Gendre).

​Richard Bundy: an award winning song writer and keyboard player. He also creates music for film and television. His music is urban jazz; keyboards/vocal, bass and drums. 

Diane Dunn:
Folkestone folk & blues singer, and acoustic guitarist, performing with local poet Sharon McCarron
In the reception, there will be a photography exhibition from Jil Orpen and the brilliant Kevin Richards fromMampama
​ All artists and bands are performing pro-bono, and the event has been organised by many volunteers - so bring your friends, bring your family and enjoy the day!

 We take this opportunity to thank again Clodagh Bottomley, Francesca Warham and Latymer Upper School for raising £500 for Green Kordofan cause. thanks inspiring more people take part, taken leadership in inclusion and other matters.
We are really keen that  kids on both sides learn and benefit from this experience, thank you for your help.

 We received a donation today of £100 from the Independent Insurance Service, Folkestone taken our fundraising from Folkestone 10k,2017 to £305 
 the rest were raised at Justgiving by GK supporter and  runner the wonderful Shihab Awad Ibrahim 
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Thank you!
You have made a real difference in the lives of the kids we serve.