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Sequence goals to encourage lasting, impactful behaviour change in younger viewers in Africa, inspiring the following era of environmental advocates by offering them with the information and abilities to grasp, preserve, and shield the world round us.
- Native sequence presenters introduced
- Kenya-based White Rhino Movies introduced as manufacturing companion
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 Growth (USAID) and the U.S. Division of State have introduced that manufacturing has commenced on the Nationwide Geographic Youngsters Africa academic leisure sequence.
Moreover, the sequence’ 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 presently below approach for subject presenters that can current inserts in different areas of Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa and Tanzania.
Nationwide Geographic Youngsters Africa is a collaborative effort to have fun the setting and lift consciousness of conservation and related points by way of a factual leisure programme for youngsters. The mission goals to encourage and promote constructive behaviours amongst its audiences to guard the world wherein they reside, by way of engendering a deeper understanding of their environments.
The 26-part tv sequence will likely be shot primarily in East Africa with further filming in West and Southern Africa. The sequence will likely be produced by The Walt Disney Firm with White Rhino Movies because the manufacturing companion. White Rhino Movies is a youthful, artistic and vibrant manufacturing firm, based mostly in Kenya with a ardour for crafting high quality and interesting tales.
Implementation companion WildlifeDirect will collaborate on analysis and inventive approaches for the sequence, as nicely spearhead related neighborhood outreach tasks throughout East Africa, aiming to encourage learners from 200 colleges to make an enduring affect on the conservation of species-rich landscapes. By investing in information and abilities, by way of instruments comparable to conservation hubs, academic sources, bespoke educator coaching, skilled exchanges and extra, the outreach program goals to develop a passionate neighborhood of younger explorers with the fascination and want to guard their continent and their world.
Nationwide Geographic Youngsters Africa will air throughout Africa on each Nationwide Geographic Wild and Disney Channel, late in 2022, with participating digital extensions on social media platforms that can enable viewers to additional discover subjects addressed within the sequence.
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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, Normal 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 1000’s 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 tens of millions of shoppers in additional than 130 international locations by way of the facility of unparalleled storytelling. Disney+, the corporate’s direct-to-consumer streaming service, is presently accessible in 17 markets throughout Europe.
About WildlifeDirect:
WildlifeDirect is internationally acknowledged as a excessive affect 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 sequence about our wildlife heroes and heroines, and the animals that they’re saving. We goal to rework and catalyze the wildlife movie making trade in Africa. The sequence is screened on nationwide TV in addition to in lecture rooms by way of the Wildlife Warriors Youngsters conservation training program.
About USAID:
The U.S. Company for Worldwide Growth (USAID) is the world’s premier worldwide improvement company and a catalytic actor driving improvement outcomes. By means of our cross-sectoral programming, USAID works to deal with the world’s most pressing wants, together with biodiversity conservation, training, and financial improvement. USAID works to assist raise 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 government 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 overseas coverage by way of diplomacy, advocacy, and help by advancing the pursuits of the American individuals, their security and financial prosperity. By means of its 270 diplomatic missions world-wide, the Division of State is dedicated to supporting public outreach efforts round key overseas coverage issues that assist construct peaceable relations between the individuals of the US and other people of different international locations, in addition to advance U.S. overseas coverage and nationwide safety objectives.
The Bureau of Academic and Cultural Affairs’ (ECA) mission is to extend mutual understanding between the individuals of the US and the individuals of different international locations by way of academic and cultural change that help within the improvement of peaceable relations.