Rafiki Wema recognizes the need for locally oriented news and media contents that allow communities to become aware of issues, challenges, and opportunities within communities. We recruit and support individuals to gain journalism and multimedia skills and qualifications that enable them to become community journalists, thus diversifying voices, views, and representation of our communities.

Our hyperlocal media coverage prepares local communities to remain informed, to grow stronger and develop authentic, and civic conversations, that facilitate the understanding and active participation of communities, in the wider social and economic dynamics, and changes that impact or alter their lives. Our community journalism discusses topics linked to the community’s everyday life, thereby creating networks and voices that can tie them together.

To encourage community wide media participation and involvement, we introduced a community studio, which we use to train community journalists, produce a variety of media contents both audio and visual to promote media literacy among the minority communities across London by covering topics that mainstream media doesn’t cover.