We are planning to organize a 4-day summer camp focused on citizen media training activities the aim of which is the awareness raising and empowerment of young women and girls from rural areas. The result of this camp will be well informed, educated and empowered participants ready to advocate for their rights, trained how to raise their voices through citizen media and transmit gained knowledge and skills to their local community members.
What locality or neighborhood will your project focus on?
Describe the specific community with whom you will be working.
What kinds of news, stories and other content will be created?
The participants will be trained why and how to use social and digital media. They will create personal e-mail, Facebook, Twitter and Youtube accounts and Blogs. They will create a Facebook Group for staying in touch with each other. They will be trained how to report DV cases via online RRU platform created by our organization. Finally, they will come up with their own videos cut and designed by Movie Maker program, upload and disseminate them.
What technologies and digital tools do you plan to use in the trainings?
Other tools
Online platform created by our organization to report DV cases online /www.rru.swv.am/
Describe the connections that you or your organization have already established that will contribute to the success of the project.
Our organization is cooperating with many local NGOs based in the regions from where the participants will be selected. They will help us during the all phases of this project.
Besides, we have good connections with the most active bloggers and Facebook/Twitter users who are activists and civil society members. Some of them will take part in our trainings to educate and share their experiences and success stories with the participants.
How many participants do you think will be involved in your project?
Our organization has regional staff in these rural areas. Besides, as mentioned, we cooperate with local NGOs which will also help us to seek and gather the participants who fall under our criteria.
We are planning to have 25 direct beneficiaries from this project and 125 indirect beneficiaries, thus 150 in total. Every participant will be in charge of training 5 community members while coming back home from the camp.
Besides the microgrant funding, what other resources and support are you seeking for your project to ensure its success?
We would like you to share with us some relevant videos/publications or other resources which might motivate and empower the participants of our camp.
Also, we would like to be in touch with other grantees as well to share our experiences/success stories/challenges with each other.
Organization
Society Without Violence NGO
Twitter URL
9 comments
this project is a great opportunity for rural girls to raise their voice against violence and fight for their rights!
Good luck to the initiators.
Thank you very much for appreciating our project’s idea ! We will try to do our best to achieve the goals of this initiation and raise awareness of the rural young women and girls who are the ones who really need the information and skills that we are going to share with them and the ones who need a source of empowerment and inspiration.
An inspiring outline of a project, good planing and orientation to details makes this project a valuable one!I’d like to take part in it.
Hello Anush, thank you for your comment. In case of getting funding for this project, we will widely share information on what we are planning to do exactly and how you can have your own contribution and support in this vitally important project. Meanwhile, please follow our activities and stay in touch with us.
I think it is a very good project. It will help many girls and young women to be strong and fight anainst violence.
Thank you very much Nare, we are very glad that there are people who see and appreciate our efforts !
This is a good initiative. It is similar to our proposal in the Gambia. I hope both our proposals succeed and we will be able to learn and share experience working with young girls to empower them in activism using citizens; media. good luck.
Hi Amie,
Thank you for your comment and encouraging words. We wish you good luck and hope that you will have success not only in the frames of this project but in your overall mission as well. Sending you energy and inspiration from Armenia!
Anna,
I glad you are encouraged by my comments. Thanks for the best wishes too.