Iman Burhan-The Legend/Voice of Eastleigh Community

(Iman Burhan and former Dutch Ambassador to Kenya)

Iman Burhan is a producer and director at Easteighwood is a Media Production and Youth Empowerment Initiative. Since the establishment of Eastleighwood in 2011, Mr. Iman Burhan has industriously championed for peace initiatives, including Democracy and Governance, lobby for human rights, Gender-Based Violence, Counter-Violence & Extremist (CVEs) outreaches, and youth Mentorship. He successfully launched the Kenya Transition Initiative (KTI) Program and trained a number of youths with informal education as Role Models and Peace Ambassadors.

He also championed for “YouthForPeace” Initiative that for 1 year project, lobbied for peace in Eastleigh Community, following a series of Violence and grenade attacks in Kenya’s Somalia dominated Communities, which threatened the National Security. Through his hard work, together with the Kenyan Government and other stakeholders like the business community, he successfully conducted Community Peace Forums, Youth Peace Dialogues, Inter-religious Dialogues, and youth dialogue through sustained project in collaboration with Life and Peace Institute activities in Eastleigh and Kamukunji Constituencies and Sterehe sub-county.Since 2018 to 2021, the organization in partnership with four other organizations started implementation of the ‘Jiongoze Project’ funded by the Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund. The project aims to build a community of resilient and empowered youth with a sense of purpose and identity or their lives reducing radicalization to violent extremism.

Eastleigh Youth Forum has been able to help youth in Nairobi and Garissa Counties. The project is implemented through media and art providing opportunities to showcase their talents through voiceovers, wall murals, animation, and plays and to as well pass prevention of violent extremism messaging in radio and TV.

He launched an Art and Film Production Project, through which hundreds of youths have been trained and mentored to prevent CVEs activities. He is a film Producer and a Mentor whose efforts has brought various groups, including the University graduates, business people, Kenyan Government, women and youth to a common understanding of working towards solving issues surrounding Eastleigh Communities. His ambition is to see the less privileged groups getting access to information, equitable distribution of resources, good governance, Unity and a Peaceful Country through a comprehensive- Evidence-Based-Community Support Initiatives