The project wishes to train professional community journalists who will run a community blog that will provide updates on news, events and projects within the community. The project aims to empower community members with professional journalism skills that will enable them cover and address their issues from their own perspective giving them the power to monitor their leaders and projects that are within their society through a blog.
What locality or neighborhood will your project focus on?
Describe the specific community with whom you will be working.
What kinds of news, stories and other content will be created?
Community journalists will write stories on conservation, pastoralism and livestock, profitable agricultural practices, political news that affect the community, community projects and their impacts, community leadership and control of the communal group ranch lands among other stories that affect the community
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.
Arid Lands Information Network (http://alin.net/) has facilitated the project to train community members in basic journalism skills.
Nguruman Maarifa centre provides the internet through a router powered by the local mobile network(safaricom) the internet is not strong enough.
One student journalist from the community helps in editing and uploading the stories.
How many participants do you think will be involved in your project?
12 community journalists with basic training will receive further training
12 more members will be trained
4 journalists will be trained in photography
Besides the microgrant funding, what other resources and support are you seeking for your project to ensure its success?
Training materials.
internet subscriptions
Web hosting for a full community website
Computers
Digital Cameras
mobile phones
