Proposals from February 20, 2013
Palestine: Locked Sufferings Find its Way to the Public
The project aims to monitor life of Palestinian people living in villages adjacent to settlements, to modify their “shutted voice” to “raised voice” to international forums and to all over the world. Directly through photography (video, photograph and word) and spread it across social media networking through individual or collective pages. A group of young women living in those areas will be selected, as they're absent from media work field.
Uganda: Changing my World
The project will focus on learning and information sharing among youth who live with and those affected by HIV/AIDS by developing interactive youth community forums which will help them speak out and share their life stories, Testimonies and plight of living with HIV/AIDS and share their experiences with other communities. Encourage involvement and participation in social networks, digital video and digital photograph to fight stigma and disc
Kenya: Promotion of Cultural Value Through Media
This region with vast cultural values needs an approach that will enhance a) establishment of centers for documentation, dissemination and marketing. b) Establish media approach in ensuring protection of rights and promotion of tourism. c) Enrich the society outside the region with valuable cultural items
Pakistan: Promoting Inter-cultural and Inter-faith Harmony
The main objectives of the proposed project are to: • Mobilize the targeted youth volunteers, both girls and boys, for the formation of district-level Intercultural and Interfaith Youth Councils (IIYCs); • Conduct capacity-building sessions and create opportunities for the IIYCs to promote intercultural and interfaith harmony and peace; • Develop linkages and coordination among IIYCs to build networks
Palau: Youth-In-Conservation Social Network
This project aims to build global youth awareness of conservation in Palau, a small island nation in the Pacific. Palau Conservation Society will establish a youth-in-conservation online social network by holding a workshop, facilitated by a team of youth, to develop and administer a social network site to link Palau youth with other youth around the world. The overarching goal is to encourage them to become lifelong stewards of conservation.
Ghana: The Cape Coast e-Learning Initiative
The project is to help students use the internet for research so they improve upon their grades in school. It is also to help young people in and around Apewosika acquire and develop themselves in the area of skills acquisition in Information technology and prepare them for the world of work through training and capacity building
Egypt: Network with Visual Disabilities
Persons with disabilities suffer from discrimination, marginalization and lack of attention to their particular visual disabilities are denied the right to learn modern technology (Computer) under ignored by state institutions, especially educational them there are a lot of people with visual disabilities have ignorance using the computer and the use of modern technologies (software speaking)
Kenya: Uniting and Securing Our Communities
The purpose of the project is to create cohesion, unity and raise awareness on the consequences resulting from discrimination with respect to culture, religion, tribe, color or race among the youths out of school by use of modern media technology. The project hopes to use mobile phones, digital video and photography to raise awareness about the consequences of such vices in our community especially among the youths out of schools; how it affect
Cameroon: “Be The Voice: Say It Out Loud”
Building citizen capacity to lead discussions and take actions on issues affecting their lives and their community through the effective use of blogs, online forums/groups and the social media. Phase 1: Experience sharing offline forums; tell us your story. Phase 2: Who should know and what to use; introducing citizen media modes. Phase 3: How to use it; training and workshops on digital photography, blogging and use of social media in reporting.
Uganda: Younger Enterprenuers Minds
Project is aimed at bringing the younger entrepreneurs involved in different activities to have a common voice. The targeted group is for the day school going youth who pay for themselves school fees by doing varoius activities. Most of the group are involved in agriculture and all we shall do is to link them up to have a collective bargaining power share experiences and have access to market. This younger entrepreneurs will be helped to access c
