Proposals from February 27, 2013
India: Voice of Voiceless Dalits for Development
DASHRA will work with an indigenous Dalit community to teach and encourage new generations to begin to use social Media to connect with others as a way to preserve and promote their native language online. Partnering with a local CSO, CBOs with a computer lab to invite community members to discuss local problems and solutions, and train them how to create a group blog to take these conversations to the wider community.
Rwanda: Promoting Women's Rights Through Social Media
i wish to install a computer laboratory whrere will be 20 computers , in order to provide awareness young women and girls about the use of computers and photography in advocating their rights, through this work we intend to challenge the socio-economic, cultural practices that discriminate against women ang girls in our country.photography will help them to document and expose the issues and violence women and girls experience in our society.
Bosnia and Herzegovina: Community Radio OPEN NETWORK
As the very first community-based and not-run-for-profit radio in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Community Radio OPEN NETWORK has been designed to provide a channel that will allow the voice of the socially vulnerable population and the civil society to be heard. One of its main aims is to do fundraising humanitarian activities on the radio shows for the ill citizens that require very expensive treatment abroad, and thus is in need of support.
Nepal: Against Sexual Harrasment
Teasing girls, bullying them and passing nasty comments are quite common in rural school areas. Most young girls are victims of physical abuses and verbal assaults. We hope to make youth aware about legal provisions against sexual harassment and girls where they report such cases avoiding social stigma. Schools in Kaski and Baglung now have growing internet use and we empower social networking and make 35 school blogs reaching 1700+ students.
Uganda: Youth Advocacy for Elderly Rights.
The project will work with Elderly persons, students and teachers in advocating for the rights of suffering old persons who are abused by younger generations because of social economic pressure and breakdown social fabric which acted as security. In the different schools there will be a group of students and teachers to collect and disseminate information through blog and social sites.
Ghana: Youth Voices for Change
The YOUTH VOICES FOR CHANGE is a proposed platform that will be used to enagage peers actively and in partnership for change. Noting the crucial role modern technology plays,these mediums which is fast catching up will be exploited to communicate our cause and to drive home our demand including using it to share ideas and solutions to addressing community needs. This will virtually lead to open forum of engagement with active youth participation
Cote d'Ivoire: With ICT I can…
This project aims to protect children. We will work with a school to instruct students on the best uses of ICT. They will use ICT for their security: to find information about VBG, best usage practices, and articles and texts on their rights as children – which they will then be able to comment on.
Cameroon: Mbororo Community Voices
This project will offer trainning on ICT and Internet to equip participants with the knowledge and abilities of using the different online communication tools by creating websites, facebook accounts, twitter and the rest for sharing information and connecting to the wide world. Participants will then use the knowldge to carry out Advocacy campaigns on the different networks to bring changes in their communities.
India: Empowering the Voice of Children in Hyderabad
Youth will be empowered to speak out for themselves, using music and media technology, on the safety and protection issues faced by vulnerable children in Hyderabad, as part of Viva’s ‘safe place for children’ campaign. 15 youth (13-18 yrs) and 3 adult facilitators from the Blossom Network will form a media team, be equipped with a Community Studio, and attend 2 Train the Trainer workshops. The team will train another 35 youth.
Sri Lanka: Children Raising Voices Against Migration
Organizing a children's group consisting of members from families where mothers have migrated or intending to migrate for employment. They will be trained and guided by experienced bloggers in raising their voice through blogs in creating awareness about the violation of their Rights and gravity of abuse they face when mothers migrate and objecting such migration. The group will be linked with our office and Government IT educational centres.
