WIKILOVES MONUMENTS: PHOTO COMPETITION FOR KENYA MONUMENTS
Wiki Loves Monuments is a public photo competition aimed at taking photographs of cultural heritage monuments (buildings, statues, shipwrecks, etc.) and uploading them to Wikimedia Commons which is a database of freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute.
Wiki Loves Monuments started as a photo competition/scavenger hunt that took place throughout the Netherlands between September 1 and September 30, 2010. In 2011 the photo contest drew 172,305 entries from over 5,000 participants in 18 European countries which is now global in 2012.

Members of the public are encouraged to celebrate Kenya's living heritage by taking photographs of heritage sites (including buildings, sites of struggle and memory, graves, monuments, archaeological sites, etc.) and uploading them either via mobile or their computers to the competition website http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_Nairobi

The contest gives everyone the opportunity to discover and showcase our country’s rich heritage at the same time get a chance to win prizes and compete with the world’s best in the International Round of the competition.

Anyone who has a digital camera (including cellphone or tablet cameras) can participate in the world’s largest photo contest. With hundreds of sites listed and scattered all over the country, all it takes is to capture images and upload it at the event website.

International awards

The national juries will nominate photos for the international contest, which has its own jury and awards. The main prize will be a photo trip to Hong Kong, connected to a visit to Wikimania, the annual meeting where Wikimedians from all over the world meet each other, with a maximum value of 2000 euro! Besides that there will be a number of photography-related vouchers, ranging from 400 euro worth (second prize) to 50 euro worth (tenth prize)

Please visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_Nairobi/Partcipate to participate in the competition