Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Archives – Kakic Universe News & Updates Kakic Universe News & Updates Fri, 18 Feb 2022 18:36:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.5 https://news.kakicuniverse.co.zw/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/cropped-Favicon-32x32.png Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Archives – Kakic Universe News & Updates 32 32 HIV Awareness for the Deaf Community https://news.kakicuniverse.co.zw/grapevine/ https://news.kakicuniverse.co.zw/grapevine/#respond Thu, 17 Feb 2022 11:10:56 +0000 https://news.kakicuniverse.co.zw/?p=5588

A lot of awareness campaigns are making use of digital media to raise awareness on important issues in society. While this is good, the deaf community tends to be left out. It was a great honour for us to work with Nzeve Deaf Centre on creating these specific videos to educate them on this Issues. The videos had to make use of actions and facial expressions to express the message.

The Grapevine project

The Grapevine project made use of simplified story telling to communicate scenarios that some of the girls in deaf communities face. 

Emphasis is on the storytelling and facial expressions, Sign Language and Subtitles were not an option as sign language varies with each region and community,  so it was left out as it could potentially confuse or discourage those who have received limited to no education.

The stories and actions had to be very simple to follow and relatable so they could be inclusive to as many people as possible.

Nzeve Deaf Center intends to use these videos to have discussions and workshops in the different communities and have the participants learn how to handle themselves in such situations and other helpful lessons.

 

Video 01: Tadiwa's story

Other work for Nzeve Deaf Center

It was also a great honour for us to work with Nzeve Deaf Center on community comic books which they used to communicate and educate issues of inclusivity for the disabled community. Check this project out below:

]]> https://news.kakicuniverse.co.zw/grapevine/feed/ 0 Disability Inclusion- Community Dialogues Comic Book for Nzeve Deaf Center https://news.kakicuniverse.co.zw/community-comic-books/ https://news.kakicuniverse.co.zw/community-comic-books/#respond Fri, 30 Jul 2021 17:03:18 +0000 https://news.kakicuniverse.co.zw/?p=5315

NZEVE is an organization of deaf and hearing people that promotes the rights of children and youth with disabilities to participate fully in society. NZEVE works to reduce discrimination by promoting sign language and deaf culture and building deaf community and provides holistic services for deaf children and youth and their families.

The comic books

Not everyone is educated thus not everyone can read but everyone understands human emotion and expression. We worked on these comic books that make use of illustrations and specific emphasised poses to tell stories on different scenarios all centered around the topic of Community Inclusion.

What we learnt from working with them

Its important to include the disabled during the production process.

The disabled grow up with their own different view of life and media. So some concepts that will be clear and obvious to the rest of us may not make sense to everyone else.

So its important to have their input to see if the content you are developing makes sense to them and delivers the message you want the way it is intended.

 

The Nzeve people were amazing to work with and it was overall a great working experience.

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MESSAGE OF PEACE

The nation of Zimbabwe has a terrible history of having violence erupt during Political Seasons and Elections, The state’s Political atmosphere is usually hostile due to the tense competition between the different political sides.

 

With Hopes of having a Peaceful election period, we decided to launch the Message of Peace Campaign to spread a message of unity and stand against violence, watch the 2 videos below

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]]> https://news.kakicuniverse.co.zw/message-of-peace/feed/ 0 A stand against Slavery, Dear Mister Slave Master https://news.kakicuniverse.co.zw/a-stand-against-slavery-dear-mister-slave-master/ https://news.kakicuniverse.co.zw/a-stand-against-slavery-dear-mister-slave-master/#comments Thu, 04 Jan 2018 20:31:33 +0000 https://www.kakicuniverse.co.zw/?p=1206

A STAND AGAINST SLAVERY

In August 2017, The world woke up to a shocking article about the discovery of an illegal slave trade system in Libya. CNN reporters went undercover to a site where a slave auction was to be held and they captured live footage of Human Beings Being Sold for As Little As $400. 

read more here: http://edition.cnn.com/2017/11/14/africa/libya-migrant-auctions/index.html

Watch the CNN report below:

After seeing this Two Apart and Kakic Universe came together to produce an animated piece about their opinion on the matter titled “Dear Mister Slave Master”.

WHO IS TWO APART?

By Then Two Apart Was the poetic duo-ship of Ocean Scott and Karnell. When the two Poets heard of their slave trade, their first reaction was to write, producing the beautiful Piece, “Dear Mister Slave Master”.After Finishing it, They Sent it to Kudakwashe Maxwell who loved it and right away they got started on Producing the Animated Video

View the video below:

Ebenezer Maxwell of e.a records did a superb job on Scoring and Sound and the final result was amazing.

Kudakwashe Maxwell Voiced the First Slave,

Karnell Voiced the Female Slave

Ocean Scott Voiced the Last Slave

The response from the internet was also Encouranging! 

Animation can be used to be a voice for the voiceless. We stand in solidarity with our African Brothers and sisters who are affected by the slave trade.

Credits:

Kudakwashe Maxwell

Kudakwashe Maxwell

Director, Animator, Voice Over artist

ea records

ea records

Mixing, Scoring

Munashe Karnell Goromonzi

Writer, Voice Over Artist

Ocean Scott Makwarimbo

Writer, Voice Over artist

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