Award-winning 'Cause Focused Storyteller', Founder of Literacy Outreach Belize and Lead Facilitator for Artfully AWARE, Kristin Pedemonti spent a month in Kenya collecting countless stories, photographs and illustrations from many Kenyan organizations and individuals. Kenya is a country of contrasts - from the huge, sprawling, modern metropolis of Nairobi with its traffic jams, skyscrapers towering to the sky and an emerging technology industry - to the hundreds of bustling towns and villages, some with traditional structures of thatch roofs and small shambas that families farm. Often when...

The Benefits of Positive Living is composed of stories written and illustrated by dozens of community members who ultimately survived the HIV/AIDS epidemic. They give advice to readers in the hope that others will learn from their experiences. Artfully AWARE uses creativity as an important tool for social improvement and emotional recovery of persons who have experienced traumatic events, disabilities or inadequate living conditions through our main program - The Storybook Project. One can not overstate the importance of communities being able to hold a history written by themselves in their...