We need volunteers/interns to work with our amazing group of kids. We are empowerment ambassadors and change makers.
Those who want to intern at a Kids agency will be given first priority.
You have to be special, creative, bursting with energy, skillful in your work, talented.
Contact us through the email angelsofsunset@gmail.com
Kisumu Fashion Week 5, was not your everyday night.
This year, again, we had Angels of Sunset kids taking part in the Kisumu City’s biggest ever annual fashion event.
The kids dressed again by Zuri Afrique, didn’t disappoint, as they strut the runway, with wails and love from the members of the audience.
Definitely, Angels of Sunset is committed to the fashion talents development of all kids, in Kisumu and even in the greater republic.
We invite you to bring your kids to register with us, to identify, nurture and develop their respective talents in modeling, design, dance, music and public speaking.
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Joyce, Paulette and Bali at the red carpet
Bali posing at the red carpet
Joyce Strutting the runway at the 5th edition of the Kisumu Fashion Week 2016
Paullete at the 5th edition of the Kisumu Fashion Week 2016 Red Carpet
Paullete Strutting the runway at the 5th edition of the Kisumu Fashion Week 2016
Angels of Sunset are at it yet again 🙂
This time bringing to the Lakeside City of Kisumu a fashion showcase bringing designers, jewellers, dancers and educationists for a full day of fun-galore just for the little ones.
The organization being child-focused, is committed towards excellence of kids in exploiting their innate talents and abilities.
There will be:
It is going to be fun, fun, and more fun; punctuated with lots of enjoyable games for the parents and their little ones.
This is OFFICIALLY an event that no parent/child in Kisumu shouldn’t miss!
See you on August 20, 2016 at the Great Lakes Hotel 🙂
Twenty-two-year-old Hyral Matete set out to be a school teacher and she started out as one for a year, before she settled for a different kind of teaching. Today, Hyral is a modelling and dance teacher.
“After completing my teaching course at Jan’s Teacher’s College in Kisumu, I was employed as a primary school teacher for a year. It was a great experience. It was fun, but hectic. The best part was instilling good morals in the children,” she recalls.
While Hyral was passionate about children, she soon realised that she wasn’t entirely enthusiastic about working as a schoolteacher. She wanted to create a platform where she could change lives on a much more personal level.
Since there wasn’t such a platform available, she decided to create one for herself. The idea of starting a modelling agency for children was conceived in April 2013 while she was still teaching. She was passionate about fashion and dance so it came almost naturally to her.
“I didn’t know anyone who ran a modelling agency so the concept was new to me. I spent the next six months doing as much research on it as I could. I read magazines and watched videos online. The more research I did, the more viable the idea seemed to be,” she says.
In October that year, she quit her job, registered Angels of Sunset and set about getting children on board. She had a burning passion and she had done more than enough research on the subject. The parents she approached with the idea however, had no idea what she was talking about.
TALENT SHOWS
“It was very hard. I also didn’t have much in savings and I had no office. I just had hope. I resolved to organise a modelling talent show that same year, so I went knocking on doors and looking for sponsors. The event happened that December and I spent only 700 shillings from my savings,” she says.
The confidence that others showed in her idea was more than enough of what she needed to stay on course.
In 2014, despite the fact that she had signed up quite a number of children, Hyral was still unsatisfied. She wanted to touch the lives of children in the slums.
“I didn’t want it to be just about beauty and dancing. I wanted to actually change lives,” she says of her motivation.
What if she could enroll children from the slums alongside her regular ones and educate them while nurturing their dancing and modelling talent?
She slowly started implementing this idea and it has been a success. Every day at work, Hyral and her team teach children and teens dance and modelling and during school holidays, they organise talent shows for needy children. The company sells tickets to these shows and people come and watch the children model and dance. The proceeds from these shows are channeled to the children’s education. So far, there are 20 children paying for their education through their modelling and dancing skills.
“It is fulfilling to be able to earn a living and at the same time touch lives doing something that I love. The best part has been seeing some of my alumni from these talent shows come back as volunteers to coach the younger ones,” she says.
The most interesting thing about working with children has been the fact that children never give up on their talent. Knowing this keeps her from giving up on them when the going gets tough.
In the foreseeable future, she wants to spread her wings beyond Kisumu.
“I want Angels of Sunset to be the leading child and teen modelling agency in the country,” she says.
Hyral’s handy hints
Courtesy: Saturday Nation
Let’s Dance to Educate our Children
This August holiday, it’s the Kisumu teens entertainment show again.
This time, we bring you a Teens Dance Show, to be held on August 22, 2015 at the Children’s Park, Sportsground. If you don’t know where the park is, just pop in to the ground and ask the watchies over there where the park is.
In a nutshell, Angels of Sunset wants to celebrate dance as talent among teens, by mobilizing the Kisumu community to join us in raising funds to support the education of young kids in Kisumu Slums.
Entrance to the event will be KShs 100.00 only, but one is able to pay as much as he/she can since this is for a worthy cause.
Also, there will be:
Dance crews to stage their acts will be:
Purpose to attend. Bring your kids, let’s have fun! It’s a kids party!
This event is supported by:
We had fun, mad mad fun. Dancing by the lake, picnic 🙂 
No matter where you’re from, your dream is valid – Lupita Nyong’o.
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