Tumaini Festival
Nonprofit Organization Management - Dowa, Central Region, Malawi
Tumaini Festival Employees
Tumaini Festival Details
Tumaini Festival is global celebration which transforms the Dzaleka Refugee Camp into a touristic destination during which visitors are welcomed into the Camp. It is the only festival in the world that is held within a refugee camp, its goal is to promote intercultural harmony, foster mutual understanding, and create a peaceful coexistence between the refugees and the Malawian people. The annual Tumaini Festival is the main source of commercial revenue for Dzaleka Refugee Camp helping the community generate over $150,000 per year. The Tumaini Festival was established in 2014, across the past eight years, over 129,000 people have attended the event and 409 performing acts from across Malawi, Africa and the world shared the same stages with performers from Dzaleka. The festival has gained national and international media coverage, it has so far achieved a media reach estimated at 50,000,000 people worldwide.The impact of the Tumaini Festival has been recognized worldwide, winning awards such as the 2020 Sharjah International Award for Refugee Advocacy & Support, and the 2018 World Bank Africa Region's Social Inclusion Hero Award. The organization was also a finalist of the 2020 Ockenden International Prizes as well as a finalist of the 2020 Elevate Prize powered by MIT Solve. Tumaini Letu was represented at the first United Nations' World Refugee Forum in 2019 of which its Founder was one of the Refugee Co-sponsors. In 2021, the festival was among the 10 finalists of the Global Pluralism Award.
