Proposals Kenya from February, 2013
Kenya: Uniting and Securing Our Communities
The purpose of the project is to create cohesion, unity and raise awareness on the consequences resulting from discrimination with respect to culture, religion, tribe, color or race among the youths out of school by use of modern media technology. The project hopes to use mobile phones, digital video and photography to raise awareness about the consequences of such vices in our community especially among the youths out of schools; how it affect
Kenya: WOES-Walking on Egg Shells
WOES-Walking on Egg Shells is an initiative that seeks to promote progressive re-integration of ex-prisoners in their communities by blogging their struggles to fit in the community from the first day they were released from prison to bring about acceptance and to avoid the situation whereby they feel like they are walking on eggs shells because every one looks at them suspiciously once they know that they were once offenders.
Kenya: Baraka Center: Women's Voices Rising
WCI has opened the first (of many) Women’s Centers in Nairobi Kenya. Baraka Center provides a safe place where women living in slums can learn to read and write, develop businesses, learn and practice leadership skills, and productively address the violence directed against them. In three months, 374 women registered at the Center. It’s an effective, innovative integration of programs that meet the diverse and related needs of poor women.
Kenya: Zauti Zetu
Zauti zetu is an online platform for rural youth family in Homa-Bay County,Kenya to share their life experiences and stories, discuss on issues affecting their development, engage in community awareness and services efforts, gather news about occurrences in their surrounding and obtain resources and support on issues of concern to them.
Kenya: Empowering Alternative Voices for Persons with Disabilities (PWDs)
This project will seek to amplify the voices of the marginalized PWDs in Mombasa, Kenya. The project hopes to train and mobilize PWDs as champions and advocates of their rights through citizen’s media. The project will identify potential PWDs and train them on their specific rights and advocacy skills to enable them engage on national matters as well as fight for their rights. The project hopes to expose and address PWDs rights violations.
Kenya: Women Prison Knowledge Management for Sustainable Change
The project aimed at establishing and improving different range of strategies and practices women prison fraternity can use to identify, represent, distribute and enable adoption of insights and experiences of HIV prevention among inmates. Women prison has volumes of data, information and knowledge that are often unrecognized or documented due to inadequate skills, yet they can influence policy and practice within HIV and AIDS programming.
Kenya: Talent development and edutainment program
This project will promote use of local talent to address topical issues through youth trainings on how to use digital technology, social media, visual & performing arts to voice their views & opinions by use of photos, stories & short video documentaries. The project will create awareness on topical issues, promote skill & talent diversity, build the youth’s capacity as resource persons & ultimately create positive social change in the community.
Kenya: +254 GIFT
+254 GIFT is a project with and aim to Promote Share and Showcase Creativity, Cultural diversity, Talents and Gifts to the world and other communities in Kenya (+254). Through the social platforms Art/Dance, Stories, Poetry, Music, Nature walks will be recorded and photos taken to share to the world and Kenyan communities via a Blog, a Facebook page, Twitter Handle etc. This will be accomplished by training and mentoring youths on photo taking, video recording and writting blogs at workshops, camps, youth group meetings etc. At the end of it all Talents will be identified, natured and mostly share around the globe. With that the +254Gift given as a package
Kenya: Can We Share Story Now
We plan to work with the refugees at Daadab camp and this would give the refugees platform to share their story as being that many refugees at Daadab came from Somalia which have civil war, we want to teach the refugees how to use twitter and face book to share their own stories as a way to share their experiences and make share their experiences with their country men back in Somalia as Daadab refugee camp is based in Kenya.
Kenya: Masculinity Institute Interactive Men's Website
Masculinity Institute interactive website is an internet based platform targeting to recruit and mobilize men as advocates for gender equality. It will be designed to provide information on how men can establish mutually satisfying relationship free of domestic violence with women. The facility will offer psychosocial support to men perpetrators of domestic violence, men’s health including sexual and reproductive health to end domestic violence.
