26 July 2011

Stories from 26 July 2011

[Video] Interview with Jamila Venturini of Friends of Januária

  26 July 2011

Jamila Venturini, a Brazilian multimedia journalist, is one of the coordinators of the Rising Voices grantee project Friends of Januária, which will engage young people of the town showing them how to use citizen media to become better informed and monitor the work of the local municipal government.

Ségou Villages: Solidarity Within the Community

  26 July 2011

The new bloggers from the Ségou Villages Connection project in Mali have been writing about solidarity amongst the residents of the rural communities. These signs of solidarity can be seen during times of celebration, as well as near tragedies. It is this solidarity that led the coordinator to start this project.