The project proposes to provide training opportunities to ready-made garment workers in the use of digital tools thereby raise their voices, open delivery of life history, stories, case studies, experiences sharing through mother language in Bangla. These underpaid garments workers majorities from women folk live in cluster of slums to be organized into citizen media to restore their legitimate rights to speak on own ideas, grievances to society
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 major contents but not limiting to creation of life-story, work-diary, story film, wage alert, skill sharing, linking professionals and raising basic rights campaign. The vision of the Foundation is to raise their voices thereby building leadership for establishing basic rights of the lady workers. The intended media outputs are: Skype, face book, Blogs, Linkdn. Skill page, Twitter and interactive webpage
What technologies and digital tools do you plan to use in the trainings?
Describe the connections that you or your organization have already established that will contribute to the success of the project.
We have established garments worker cluster towards promoting sanitation and menstrual hygiene interventions. The organization has its own training room and resource persons for providing coaching to the target beneficiaries. We just continue direct support the groups. The organization has some expertise; however, we plan to make partnership with the BASIS, a giant ICT solutions in Dhaka. They will be assigned for mentoring on technical matters
How many participants do you think will be involved in your project?
About 120 participants generally from women will be selected through baseline survey for providing orientation training and classified coaching on citizen media issues. The organization will ensure open online access and plan to make them adapt by absorbing their continuous interest on the subject. Light refreshment along with free access to computer output device for printing documents to be given. Rewards will be given to top 12 success users
Besides the microgrant funding, what other resources and support are you seeking for your project to ensure its success?
The Rising Voices can provide technical support through its mid-term evaluation process. We are expecting an instant connectivity with the expert group members of the Rising Voices to keep a close eye. If admissible, we also expecting getting advanced citizen media input or materials in need. It would be great if Rising Voices could visit our organization during the implementation period which will encourage the indigenous community.
3 comments
Hello Mr. Sikder,
It is indeed an interesting proposal for the Garments workers a deprive group of people of the community in Bangladesh. I’ve my continuous interest to study the poor and their well-being. Your project stands with an endeavor to augment the voice of the vulnerable section of the urban poor in Bangladesh.
So far I know about 150,000 garment workers major from young lady have been working. But your project targets only 120 which seems to be insignificant.
Thus what would be your vision to attain a outcome leaving large population behind the service delivery?
Regards,
Killary
Hello Killary,
Thank you so much for analytical comments.
The garments worker of the Dhaka city lives in urban slum in cluster houses. They live in groups, work in groups even walk in groups.
Though the project has its limitation to cover large population in a year but the 120 Garments worker selected from my nearest cluster enable me to provide intensive training backed by instant assistance and courage. Once the group earns capacity to publish stories of their own would result an obvious outcome. The impact of the 120 workers cluster will keep the pace to join other cluster eventually. Thus the vision of our organization is to raise voice, empowerment, find socio economic results but not the inclusion of large population at a time.
Thanks for your comment and I do hereby invite more comments from the friends.
Sikder
Hi,
Thanks for giving time and making a useful comment on my proposal.
As you may be aware that the proposal has its both time and resource limitations. Keeping those of limitation in mind the project intends to achieve a great outcome from 120 participants. It is expected even 12 successful participants may be sufficient to explore the whole garment community. It is not unlikely that large number of participants would come forward based on the evidence of the first comer.
The project actually doesn’t leave the whole population in behind rather indicates towards a great initiative. It would be a milestone while a significant portion of the trainee garment worker earn capacity on story building of their own.
Thanks,
Sikder