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Cameroon: Mbororo Community Voices

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Categories: Cameroon, Indigenous Communities, Audio Podcasts, Blogs, Digital Video, Other, Social Networking

This project will offer trainning on ICT and Internet to equip participants with the knowledge and abilities of using the different online communication tools by creating websites, facebook accounts, twitter and the rest for sharing information and connecting to the wide world. Participants will then use the knowldge to carry out Advocacy campaigns on the different networks to bring changes in their communities.

Topical focus:

Indigenous Communities [1]

Country:

Cameroon [2]

What locality or neighborhood will your project focus on?

Douala – Littoral Region Cameroon

Describe the specific community with whom you will be working.

This project will be working with the mbororo fulani communities especially young girls and boys who have got basic education. this community is underrepresented online due to ignorance and low level of education and lack of knowledge and abilities for some in the current communition tools. Will work with them because they need to share their information to the wider world, the discrimination they face as maginalized, HR violations, $ others.

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

websites with advocacy campaigns on human rights voilations faced by mbororo community, early and forceful marriages, importance of education of a girl child. Participants will be able to use facebook,twitter,Youtubes to transmit and publish videos and voices to pass on messages of concern.

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

Audio Podcasts [3], Blogs [4], Digital Video [5], Other [6], Social Networking [7]

Other tools

computers

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

our organisation will be working with other Mbororo organisations who have got experiences in handling project in the mbororo communities like MBOSCUDA (Mboororo Social, Cultural and Development Association), MBOYASCAM and Laimarou Network ( an organisation that covers all the Mbororo Ngos).

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

This project will train 40 participants which will be informed in our various groups. The women group will be informed and the men. Taking in to consideration of their enrolment and sensitization workshop will be held.

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

By guiding and providing current renovation on the project or proposals of other neccessities at each level.

Contact name

MAIMUNA UMARO

Organization

SURAMAMA (Association des Ressortissant Mbororo)

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