The central focus is the perception of the youth about their community. The goal is to unite culture, information and technology to the young person has the necessary instruments to look into your reality, and observers of themselves and society that harbors. From themes such as citizenship, social identity, technology, education filming his community as a “start” to reflect on themselves and what they do for themselves.
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What locality or neighborhood will your project focus on?
Santos
Describe the specific community with whom you will be working.
The young Brazilian whom the project is intended are situated in the central city of Santos / SP. This is one of the most impoverished regions of the county. Much of the population lives in poor housing conditions, including the tenements. lack of infrastructure to support health, culture and leisure. Information Technology and is a way of providing autonomy to young people and expand the possibilities of life choices.
What kinds of news, stories and other content will be created?
The stories take place from the looks of the youth of the community where they live. Using a camcorder and digital cameras depict the streets, places and people in your neighborhood creating the history and identity of the region. The most important impact will be a better understanding of yourself and reality, and deal with their own stories made possible by shooting. After that the creation of groups in social networks to disseminate.
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.
The Association Franco Rotelli, who has a history of struggle in the area of mental health, will host the project. We have institutional partnerships with universities, public and private schools, social movements, movements of psychiatric reform and the fight for the maintenance of human rights. From the initial group project we aim to build social multipliers that the very young new coordinate working groups in other neighborhoods with coordin.
How many participants do you think will be involved in your project?
The project is intended to 15 young people aged 17 to 24 who are residents of the central districts of the city of Santos in Sao Paulo state. Urban look is concerned with education, so the individual may enroll to prove frequency of 75% in class at his school. The commitment to the project and often keeps young people in the group. We work with technical staff including psychologists.
Besides the microgrant funding, what other resources and support are you seeking for your project to ensure its success?
Possibility of partnership with teachers invited by you to teach the youth to use the technology involved: machine digital camcorder and video editing programs and the computer. We know how we hit and we make mistakes in life, but above any context, and we know we know the human potential, just believe in a being, regardless of his suffering, built and destroyed in society.
Contact name
Sergio Marques Jabur
Organization
Associação Franco Rotelli