The Africa Yoga Project has introduced yoga to Kenya as a tool for social change, training over 100 instructors who offer free outreach classes in community centers, slums, orphanages and prisons across the country.
Watch the video and answer the questions below. Decide if the statements are True or False.
1. Mary Mwangi is in prison for murder.
a. True
b. False
2. The Africa Yoga Project makes a small profit.
a. True
b. False
3. Yoga began 5,000 years ago in India.
a. True
b. False
For transcript and answers see below.
Transcript and Answers
The iron gate of the Langata Women's Prison in Nairobi and the striped uniforms may have all the trappings of a maximum security jail, but inside these walls a group of women have found an unexpected way to use their free time - yoga. Mary Mwangi, who is serving a life sentence for armed robbery, discovered yoga after joining a support group for HIV-positive women in the prison.
"Before I came to this group, I didn't know anything about the group; I didn't know anything about yoga. So I had stigma. I couldn't say anything, I couldn't stand before people. But now, when this yoga came, I can talk, I can be happy, I can tell anybody what I want, because I am free."
Under the tutelage of the Africa Yoga Project, the group has been holding weekly classes for four years. The non-profit organization was set up by an American in 2007 with the aim of using yoga as a tool for social change in Kenya. Margaret Njeri, who grew up in Nairobi’s Kariobangi slum, was trained by the Africa Yoga Project a few years ago. Like the project’s other teachers, she now earns about $120 a month. She says that by empowering her economically yoga has helped transform her life.
"I used to, in Kariobangi, you know, go stealing, snatching people's phone so you can get something to eat, or get something to help your mother, and selling yourself, going to the street, being a prostitute. So, yeah, I decided to take yoga to my community because it will help them keep them busy, to realize that when you do something it can change your life."
Growing numbers of Kenyans seem to be striking the mountain pose, or reverse warrior these days. The Africa Yoga Project has trained over 100 instructors who offer free outreach classes in community centers, slums, orphanages and prisons across the country.
"I'd like to see a center like this in every country in Africa. A place where it's just open for people to come, and interact, and be healthy together."
Born in India 5,000 years ago as a physical and spiritual practice, the Africa Yoga Project is now shaping a new community-changing role for this ancient exercise here in East Africa.
Answers:
1. b
2. b
3. a
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