Kitenge
Festival UK has announced Congolese Humanitarian and Model Lisette Mibo as a
guest speaker at this year's cultural event. Kitenge Festival UK aim is to unite, educate and promote African fashion,
culture, business & the arts in the UK. The one
day event is sponsored by Salabed and is a unique platform which
showcases Africa’s valuable, distinctive and unique
heritage in a carnival atmosphere whilst instilling a sense of African pride. In its 4th
year now, the event has grown exponentially and has become a major cultural
event drawing local and international crowds. It is
designed to appeal to influential figures, community leaders, movers and
shakers, taste makers that take active roles in setting the mould for style,
cultural trends and overall ingenuity within the African Community and the
general public in the UK.
Lisette Mibo is an award-winning
model based in the United Kingdom. She was born in the city of
Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where she lived until
age 14. She moved to London in 2002 to get reunited with her
family and to pursue her education. After obtaining a BA degree in
Criminology and Sociology at the University of Middlesex in the year 2011, she
decided to embark in an international modelling career. In that
successful pursuit, Lisette's hard work has been rewarded with many
recognitions and awards. She has been featured on the covers of many
magazines, in the United Kingdom and abroad.
In
December 2015, however, she travelled back to Kinshasa, in the Democratic
Republic of the Congo, to pay her last respects to her grandmother, a woman who
had played a key role in her life. Whilst there, she realized just how dreadful
the situation of street children living in Kinshasa was, and felt a moral duty
to intervene. She has, as a result, made a conscious decision to be part of the
solution. And this decision has given birth to a new mission for Passion for
Motherland as an organisation, which will commit to empower both street boys
and girls in Kinshasa through education, skills acquisition, micro-economic
loans, medical assistant, just to name a few. Lisette Mibo believes into the
principle of sending the elevator down to bring more people up.
The
Festival's Founder and organiser Jo Nganda said "We are pleased to have
Lisette back again this year as a guest speaker after she helped host the event
last year. She is doing amazing work in the Congo with her charity Passion
for Motherland who better to tell us about the story of Africa?
Barking Football Club, 84 Lodge Avenue, London RM8 2JR
Among other magazines
that have featured her are DivaScribe magazine (UK), Amina magazine
(France), OhYes magazine (Ghana), Tropics Magazine (South Africa), Zen magazine
(Nigeria), just to name a few. She received the Best Female
Model Awards at the Black Entertainment Film Fashion
Television Award (BEFFTA) in 2012, then at the Congolese
Achievement Award in 2013. In early January 2016, at UWC Atlantic
College, she gave a very well received TEDx Talk on the topic of "Living
On the Edge" where, while recounting her journey from the Congo to
the United Kingdom, she stressed on the necessity of always
striving forward in spite of life's challenges. Moved by the urge to put people
together, Lisette founded Passion for Motherland (PFM) in 2013, a
Platform with the objective to raise funds and awareness intended to
support existing organizations running empowering projects at
grassroots level in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. For three consecutive
years, through PFM, the Model turned Humanitarian had organised community
showcases, which had brought together more than three hundred people in
order to support emerging talents in the areas of Fashion, Music and Poetry.
In
December 2015, however, she travelled back to Kinshasa, in the Democratic
Republic of the Congo, to pay her last respects to her grandmother, a woman who
had played a key role in her life. Whilst there, she realized just how dreadful
the situation of street children living in Kinshasa was, and felt a moral duty
to intervene. She has, as a result, made a conscious decision to be part of the
solution. And this decision has given birth to a new mission for Passion for
Motherland as an organisation, which will commit to empower both street boys
and girls in Kinshasa through education, skills acquisition, micro-economic
loans, medical assistant, just to name a few. Lisette Mibo believes into the
principle of sending the elevator down to bring more people up.The
Festival's Founder and organiser Jo Nganda said "We are pleased to have
Lisette back again this year as a guest speaker after she helped host the event
last year. She is doing amazing work in the Congo with her charity Passion
for Motherland who better to tell us about the story of Africa?
Kitenge
Festival UK
25th
June 2016, 10 – 6PMBarking Football Club, 84 Lodge Avenue, London RM8 2JR
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