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L'abbraccio del Kenya

Reportage by Ricky Monti made in Kenya in April 2015 about 'Africa Yoga Project', a nonprofit organization based in Nairobi, Kenya. Project founded in 2007 by Paige Elenson, finance woman in NewYork and yoga teacher, who decided to leave his job and move to Nairobi to begin teaching yoga. Africa Yoga Project is now a movement that involves young people and women in Kenya to learn, contribute, and change their lives through the yoga. With the support of the Institute of Baron Baptiste, international guru of power yoga, and his organization, AYP started the first yoga teachers training in Kenya and now employs over 100 local youth to teach full-time in their communities. Instructors teach yoga in schools, community centers, cultural centers, centers for people with disabilities, with numbers over 3000 involved a week. Every Saturday at the Shine Center, officially the AYP administrative organization and yoga studio in Nairobi, there is a yoga class for two hours free and open to everyone with lunch provided at the end of the lesson, you get to exceed 200 participants from all parts of the city. 'Africa Yoga Project' as well as creating jobs through teaching yoga to improve the lives of those involved with benefits in terms of physical / mental and sometimes saving different situations deeply damaged by drugs or serious family problems . There are training courses set up by 'Africa Yoga Project' and open to everyone to become a yoga teacher, and which includes young people from Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Botswana, Tanzania and Rowanda then bring yoga in their own countries. Biography Ricky Monti is born in Como in 1986. He has a passion for photography from young and in 2005 became his profession. Start his career taking pictures of extreme sports that led him to collaborate with international brands and to travel between Europe, Africa, US, Japan meeting different realities and cultures. Later he approached the world of music and reportage, by continuing to develop a personal research in photography

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