We seek to empower female sex workers providing tools to tell their own stories and claims, in defense of our human and labor rights. Through training in the management of internet and digital photography, they would access to more information to defend their rights, also is expected to tell and illustrate their stories with digital videos and audios that will be uploaded on the web site and facebook page of ONAEM
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What locality or neighborhood will your project focus on?
La Paz and El Alto
Describe the specific community with whom you will be working.
The project will be conducted with women sex workers in the cities of La Paz and El Alto, ONAEM affiliates. In general, women sex workers have a low level of education, no knowledge about internet and a weak knowledge about their rights.Besides, in Bolivia there is still a lot of prejudice about sex work causing further discrimination and poor working conditions.
What kinds of news, stories and other content will be created?
Women sex workers in La Paz and El Alto will learn to create and edit their own content in digital audio and video, telling their experiences. Interviews and testimonies will be directed to sensitize people on the need to recognize the labor rights of sex workers, with emphasis on differentiating sex work from human trafficking and sex trafficking. In addition contents will be diffused in ERBOL Radio, that supports ONAEM.
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.
ONAEM is a grassroots organization of women sex workers has 400 affiliates. It was founded in 2005, with nationwide presence and afiliadada to RedTraSex. Throughout years of work, has several allies in the press and NGOs, such as Radio ERBOL, Asociación Vivo en Positivo, DIVERSENCIA, LGBT groups and Hermanas Adoratrices.
How many participants do you think will be involved in your project?
We hope to reach at least 50 women sex workers in the cities of La Paz and El Alto. ONAEM is an organization of women sex workers, defending their rights against the abuses they suffer daily. So our members are engaged and interested in participating and make their voices heard.
Besides the microgrant funding, what other resources and support are you seeking for your project to ensure its success?
ONAEM has an agreement with Radio Erbol, Sisters Adorers, and also is part of the Sex Workers Network of Latin America and Caribbean (RedTraSex), organizations that support our work. With RedTraSex are starting a project of empowerment and awareness and fits perfectly complements this activity.
Contact name
Evelia Yucra Asillo
Organization
Organización Nacional de Activistas por la Emancipación de la Mujer (ONAEM)