Proposals Uganda from February, 2013
Uganda: Breaking the Silence on Disability
Disability in Uganda is largely associated with witchcraft and as a result PWDS are stigmatized and discriminated in the social network of society. We hope to fight this through raising awareness among the local communities by creating a platform where parents can freely share their experiences/ testimonies in raising these children and later to be able to advocate for their rights. These stories will be captured in newsletters and broadcasted.
Uganda: Digitalizing Workers’ Rights
I would like to form a group of workers’ rights activists comprising of rights trainers and garbage collectors to volunteer in rights awareness training through digital equipment use. The goal is to train members in the use of digital equipment in identifying, learning and documenting workers’ rights violations.Information Dissemination methodology will be through video shows. Flyers, creation of Blogs and use of mobile phones.
Uganda: Abakyala Tweyogerer – The Single Mothers’ Voice
The project will teach single mothers how to use citizen media to document and share their personal family stories, and create a Facebook and twitter page where they will be shared online. Trainings will focus on using digital photography and social networks to share experiences and challenges faced by single mothers in Uganda. Stories and photos will be collected monthly through focus group discussions and posted on Facebook and twitter
Uganda: Women Entrepreneurs and the Digital World
The project shall entail women entrepreneurs who are already engaged in production and service delivery thus have marketable products through using their mobile phones (internet enabled) to market. promote,share views and notify others about their products. The project is not targeting only those women who are well versed with using the internet but also those that are not through training
Uganda: Changing my World
The project will focus on learning and information sharing among youth who live with and those affected by HIV/AIDS by developing interactive youth community forums which will help them speak out and share their life stories, Testimonies and plight of living with HIV/AIDS and share their experiences with other communities. Encourage involvement and participation in social networks, digital video and digital photograph to fight stigma and disc
Uganda: Younger Enterprenuers Minds
Project is aimed at bringing the younger entrepreneurs involved in different activities to have a common voice. The targeted group is for the day school going youth who pay for themselves school fees by doing varoius activities. Most of the group are involved in agriculture and all we shall do is to link them up to have a collective bargaining power share experiences and have access to market. This younger entrepreneurs will be helped to access c
Uganda: Community Reporters’ Hub & Clinic
With the withdraw of Kony from Acholi Subregion, surviving victims of his heinous hostilities are now returning to their homes hauling a multitude of untold moving stories; Stories of shattered dreams and uncertain future. Community Reporters’ Hub & Clinic is where returnees wil gather& get free professional hands-on training on how to use small digital video&Photo cameras, Audio- recorders, the internet, basics of news writing,editing,blogi
Uganda: Voices From The Grassroots
Voices From The Grassroots is a community news network for the poor to accelerate social change by producing videos on their unheard stories that are shown to thousands within their communities and on TV and web. It empowers the poor with an articulate voice to come up with their own solutions to their problems. It creates platforms for community discussion. It diversifies the media by training the most excluded to produce professional media
Uganda: Raising Voices on Maternal Health Rights
This project aims to use photography as a tool to communicate challenges mothers go through in their quest for maternal health services in Uganda. 4 community photographers will be identified and trained to take photos in their areas. Images that best communicate women’s reality and stories will be selected and shared on CEHURD flicker web page. 2 photo exhibition workshops will be held for the community and leaders to dialogue. It’s expected
Uganda: The Dawson Wambi End Mob Violence Campaign
Dawson Wambi Jr was burnt by a mob of church goers in Northern Uganda in 2001 and Dawson Wambi Sr was murdered by village mob in Eastern Uganda in 2012. Ironically, both victims, working for peace, justice and community development under Uganda Joint Christian Council and Mpolyabigere Community Library respectively suffered mistaken identity. The project intends to mobilize local communities to observe human rights and to stop mob violence.
