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Bangladesh: Get Involved, Be Informed, Make a Chnange

· Rising Voices

Categories: Bangladesh, Environment, Digital Photography, Digital Video, Social Networking

This will be a yearlong project mentoring a group of young volunteers with an aim to build an expert group of young people for working human rights and environmental sustainability field through them contribution to the local community. Participants will work within the local community on various issues through, interviewing them, writing, blogging, photography, making short movie etc so that they can gather knowledge to share.

Topical focus:

Environment [1]

Country:

Bangladesh [2]

What locality or neighborhood will your project focus on?

Sylhet

Describe the specific community with whom you will be working.

During the project we will raise the issues before our target audience(mainly rural people of all classes includes local governments, migrants people, labors,media, religious and cultural groups, social and business groups etc) . The project also includes finding and giving opportunity for the target audience to involve with the issues we will focus.

What kinds of news, stories and other content will be created?

Short movie, documentary, photographs, blog, articles, statistical analyses, PowerPoint presentation, essay, etc on Local Human Rights and environmental issues, cultural and religious issues, social and sustainability issues.

What technologies and digital tools do you plan to use in the trainings?

Digital Photography [3], Digital Video [4], Social Networking [5]

Describe the connections that you or your organization have already established that will contribute to the success of the project.

Our participatory organizations are MasterPeace Bangladesh is a local club of Master Peace, a local organization called Pancha Khnada Gulabia Public Library, a law association called Classical Jurisconsuts.

How many participants do you think will be involved in your project?

We will recruit at least 60 students and youth from educational and social organizations mostly from participating organizing organizations of this project. The will be divided in to six groups mainly based on their locality for working year round. Each group will work their each area they are dwelling in. We will select area of working for each group which will be mostly based on their place of living so that they can comply their task efficient

Besides the microgrant funding, what other resources and support are you seeking for your project to ensure its success?

We will approach for member donations, local and international funding.

Contact name

Istiak Ahmed

Organization

MasterPeace Club of Bangladesh