Nairobi, 26 August, 2025 / 11:20 am (ACI Africa).
Content producers at the Communication Network for Catholic Sisters (CNCS) in Kenya, an information service of the Association of Sisterhoods of Kenya (AOSK), have been urged to let people tell their own stories, and for them to only be “carriers” of the voices of their information sources.
In his address at the launch of the CNCS five-year strategic plan on August 23, Fr. Andrew Kaufa, who serves as the Coordinator of the Department of Social Communications of the Association of Member Episcopal Conferences in Eastern Africa (AMECEA) acknowledged the shift in the way stories are told in the digital era.
“Allowing people to tell their stories is the new way to go in the digital era,” Fr. Kaufa said at the event that was held at AOSK Chemichemi ya Uzima College in the Catholic Archdiocese of Nairobi (ADN).
He added, “You let people talk and only become carriers of stories of how Sisters are giving people hope…Instead of telling a story about a widow, the widow herself tells her story. That is what becomes impactful.”
AOSK launched CNCS in June 2024 at a ceremony at Radix Hotel in Nairobi’s Karen area that was preceded by a two-day workshop during which 13 Catholic Sisters drawn from AOSK member Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life (ICLSAL) were trained.
