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Campaign expands access to rights information in Swahili and online

Policy and Civil Society Partnerships Officer Jonathan Odongo. 

A Kenyan rights campaign is translating articles into Swahili, training youth fact checkers and documenting local stories to make credible information more accessible online.

The initiative has improved more than 600 Wikipedia articles, translated 200 into Swahili and created new biographies of notable Kenyans, including the late lawyer Willie Kimani.

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