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Collection goals to encourage lasting, impactful behaviour change in younger viewers in Africa, inspiring the subsequent technology of environmental advocates by offering them with the information and expertise to know, preserve, and shield the world round us.
- Native collection presenters introduced
- Kenya-based White Rhino Movies introduced as manufacturing associate
Nairobi, 20 April 2022: Within the lead as much as Earth Day 2022, The Walt Disney Firm, Wildlife Direct, the U.S. Company for Worldwide Improvement (USAID) and the U.S. Division of State have introduced that manufacturing has commenced on the Nationwide Geographic Children Africa instructional leisure collection.
Moreover, the collection’ first group of presenters have been introduced. Mysha Hodson (13), Marita Lucas (12), Shana Manjeru (12), Riley Mwai (11) and Ardash Nadga (12) will function studio and Nairobi based mostly hosts for the present. Casting is at the moment below approach for subject presenters that can current inserts in different areas of Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa and Tanzania.
Nationwide Geographic Children Africa is a collaborative effort to rejoice the surroundings and lift consciousness of conservation and related points via a factual leisure programme for youngsters. The undertaking goals to encourage and promote optimistic behaviours amongst its audiences to guard the world by which they stay, via engendering a deeper understanding of their environments.
The 26-part tv collection shall be shot primarily in East Africa with extra filming in West and Southern Africa. The collection shall be produced by The Walt Disney Firm with White Rhino Movies because the manufacturing associate. White Rhino Movies is a youthful, inventive and vibrant manufacturing firm, based mostly in Kenya with a ardour for crafting high quality and fascinating tales.
Implementation associate WildlifeDirect will collaborate on analysis and artistic approaches for the collection, as effectively spearhead related neighborhood outreach initiatives throughout East Africa, aiming to encourage learners from 200 faculties to make an enduring impression on the conservation of species-rich landscapes. By investing in information and expertise, via instruments comparable to conservation hubs, instructional assets, bespoke educator coaching, skilled exchanges and extra, the outreach program goals to develop a passionate neighborhood of younger explorers with the fascination and need to guard their continent and their world.
Nationwide Geographic Children Africa will air throughout Africa on each Nationwide Geographic Wild and Disney Channel, late in 2022, with partaking digital extensions on social media platforms that can enable viewers to additional discover matters addressed within the collection.
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For extra data, please contact:
For The Walt Disney Firm Africa:
c/o Jenny Griesel Communications
For WildlifeDirect:
Trish Sewe
For U.S. Division of State
The Bureau of Academic and Cultural Affairs:
For USAID:
About The Walt Disney Firm EMEA:
The Walt Disney Firm, along with its subsidiaries and associates, is a number one diversified worldwide household leisure and media enterprise that features Disney Parks, Experiences and Merchandise; Disney Media & Leisure Distribution; and three content material teams—Studios, Common Leisure and Sports activities–targeted on creating and producing content material for DTC, theatrical and linear platforms. Disney is a Dow 30 firm and had annual revenues of $65.4 billion in its Fiscal Yr 2020.
The Walt Disney Firm has been in Europe, Center East and Africa (EMEA) for over 80 years and employs hundreds throughout the area. Between Disneyland Paris and its different iconic manufacturers, together with Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, Nationwide Geographic, 20th Century Studios and ESPN, The Walt Disney Firm EMEA entertains, informs and conjures up thousands and thousands of customers in additional than 130 nations via the ability of unparalleled storytelling. Disney+, the corporate’s direct-to-consumer streaming service, is at the moment obtainable in 17 markets throughout Europe.
About WildlifeDirect:
WildlifeDirect is internationally acknowledged as a excessive impression Kenyan based mostly group that seeks to vary hearts, minds and legal guidelines in order that Africa’s wildlife endures eternally. The mission of WildlifeDirect is to attach individuals to their wildlife and nature and encourage them to treasure it and act to preserve it. The group produces Wildlife Warriors, a preferred wildlife TV collection about our wildlife heroes and heroines, and the animals that they’re saving. We intention to rework and catalyze the wildlife movie making trade in Africa. The collection is screened on nationwide TV in addition to in school rooms via the Wildlife Warriors Children conservation schooling program.
About USAID:
The U.S. Company for Worldwide Improvement (USAID) is the world’s premier worldwide improvement company and a catalytic actor driving improvement outcomes. By way of our cross-sectoral programming, USAID works to handle the world’s most pressing wants, together with biodiversity conservation, schooling, and financial improvement. USAID works to assist elevate lives, construct communities, and advance democracy. USAID’s work advances U.S. nationwide safety and financial prosperity; demonstrates American generosity; and promotes a path to recipient self-reliance and resilience. President John. F. Kennedy created USAID by govt order in 1961 to steer the U.S. authorities’s worldwide improvement and humanitarian efforts.
About The U.S. Division of State
The U.S. Division of State leads America’s international coverage via diplomacy, advocacy, and help by advancing the pursuits of the American individuals, their security and financial prosperity. By way of its 270 diplomatic missions world-wide, the Division of State is dedicated to supporting public outreach efforts round key international coverage issues that assist construct peaceable relations between the individuals of the USA and folks of different nations, in addition to advance U.S. international coverage and nationwide safety objectives.
The Bureau of Academic and Cultural Affairs’ (ECA) mission is to extend mutual understanding between the individuals of the USA and the individuals of different nations by way of instructional and cultural change that help within the improvement of peaceable relations.