Last Sunday, the Likoni Youth Agenda organized a Voter Registration Campaign in partnership with Hatua Likoni to encourage people to register to vote ahead of the coming general election in March.
Led by boy scout group The Innocent Souls, we marched from the Likoni Community Library, down Lunga Lunga Road and Shelly Beach Road to Shelly Beach at Reliable Apartments. Participants held banners and posters encouraging people to exercise their civic right to vote, and musicians led us in song. Neither the Likoni Youth Agenda nor Hatua Likoni are affiliated with a particular MP or political party; we simply wanted to encourage people to vote!
At Shelly Beach, the V.I. Dancers entertained the gathered public. Music was played through the afternoon until 6pm when the event
ended.
Voter registration stations for all 5 Likoni wards were present. With only one week left for voters to register and with low rates of registration by the Kenyan population in general and specifically from Likoni residents, we hoped to make the registration process easier by bringing the stations to a central and public location.
17 people registered to vote during the afternoon. This number is considerably lower than we had hoped for, but we hope to have spurred some discussion about the importance of voting!
View photos from the Campaign on our Facebook page.