Proposals South Asia
Pakistan: Promoting Non-Violence Among Youth
The Project focuses on young people who are vulnerable to fall a prey to the Militant groups and use them as suicide bombers. 20 young people will be selected and 7 days training will be provided to them on use of Digital media for promoting tolerance and peace. They will further share their learning with 500 young people. These activists will share the stories about tactics of militants to equip young people with skills to protect themselves.
Pakistan: Radio Broadcast and journalist Training Project
The purpose for which this grant is being sought is to strengthen radio stations reporting and programming skills. More than 45% of the Pakistani population lives in poverty, and two-thirds of this figure living in rural areas. Some 65% of people living in rural areas are illiterate and lack access to news and information. Most of the radio presenters are working without basic training of broadcasting.
Nepal: Raise and Rise
This project aims to equip survivors of trafficking with knowledge and skills of story gathering. 10 women will be trained on interview skills, recorder handling, audio editing and digital photography. They will produce a weekly radio show broadcast through local radio. We believe that empowering women with skills to interview will not only help raise their voice but also help them rise in their community where they are stigmatized and excluded.
Pakistan: IDPs Media Project
This project will enable IDPs youth age 16-24 living in Camp and host communities to tell stories about themselves and their communities. By learning the documentary approach in photography, IDPs youth will create media products about their lives. Each participant will produce a piece of work, In addition, the participants will also be given a crash course on citizen journalism, allowing them to disseminate their works through the Internet.
India: South Asian Comics Activists for Gender Justice
Sixteen Grassroots Activists from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Nepal will be trained as Grassroots Comics Trainers to further engage many more female activists/ students in their respective countries to democratise the women voices through the medium of grassroots comics wall posters and campaigns. Comics have the power of unleashing the potential of self-expression and community action. In past several years World Comics Ihas experienced it.
Bangladesh: Online Support to Garments Workers
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
Pakistan: Digital Health Awareness Program for Pregnant Women
This proposal is focused on the preganat woman of village PAIRAN,situated in the Nothern Area of Pakistan.Here the SMS Alert SAystem will better work in bringing health awareness among the pregnat women becuase digital source here is only mobile phone.Thiis project will be done with the close collobaration with the pregnat woman, participants and SMS alert centre.SMS alert service will guide & help women throughout their pregnancy to avoid mishap
Pakistan: Ibrahim Hyderi ki Awaz (the Voice of Ibrahim Hyderi)
Ibrahim Hyderi, a 500 year old fishing village located in Karachi, Pakistan, is rapidly losing its traditional knowledge and culture due to urbanisation. Our project will document indigenous fishing knowledge, cultural practices and traditional beliefs through the use of digital media tools. Our professional collaborators will hold intensive digital skills-building workshops to build capacity of young, active members of the community to increase.
India: The Speaking Rickshaw
The Speaking Rickshaw is a media pilot project, which focuses on connecting the socially excluded and marginalized community of the bi-cycle rickshaw pullers in India with the mainstream society and providing a dignified status. The project will revolve around the daily life and challenges of the migrant rickshaw pullers (RPs) in big urban settlements in India. Through the use of use citizen media tools the stories of the RPs will be shared.
India: Strengthening Women Human Rights Defenders in Human Rights Monitoring
Human rights defenders already engaged in monitoring women rights violations in remote areas among marginalized communities will be strengthened on the use of mobile phones and internet in tracking HRVs, documenting evidences, filing complaints with appropriate duty bearers. 30 HRDs of Odisha will be provided with skills of using mobiles-phones, camera, videography, internet 5 HRDs will be facilitated to use mobile-phone and internet
