{"id":156738,"date":"2022-03-01T06:36:17","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T10:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/namati.org\/?p=156738"},"modified":"2023-01-11T11:57:41","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T15:57:41","slug":"video-namati-honored-2021-global-pluralism-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/namati.org\/news-stories\/video-namati-honored-2021-global-pluralism-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Namati Kenya Honored with the 2021 Global Pluralism Award","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"

On February 23, 2022, the Global Centre for Pluralism, an international research and education centre located in Ottawa, Canada, announced the three winners of their 2021 Global Pluralism Award<\/a>.\u00a0We are pleased to share that Namati Kenya\u2019s citizenship program was a recipient of this honor, alongside Hand in Hand: Center for Jewish-Arab Education<\/a> in Israel and Puja Kapai<\/a>, a social justice advocate working in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n

According to the Centre\u2019s website, the award is presented once every two years to individuals, organizations, governments and businesses that demonstrate \u201cremarkable and sustained achievements\u2026 [in] building more inclusive societies in which human diversity is protected.\u201d<\/p>\n

Namati Kenya\u2019s citizenship program equips historically excluded communities to overcome a discriminatory system and secure the national identity documents they need to access basic services like education and healthcare.\u202f This short video<\/a>, produced by Global Centre for Pluralism, shows how community paralegals are working with members of these communities to obtain legal identity documents as well as reform the unjust system.<\/p>\n

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