Dolneni municipality is a rural municipality, which has 36 undeveloped villages and represents a segmented society in which live citizens of different nationalities. Five educational camps will be realized and people will be encouraged to speak openly about the problems they face every day. At the same time they will learn how to make problems to become visible and to demonstrate initiative for their solving by using digital and social media.
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?
The most important thing about this project will be working atmosphere during creation of content. 4 multicultural groups will work on 4 different fields – 1. folk customs, history and tradition, 2. employment possibilities and entrepreneurship, 3. environmental stories and 4. everyday news. They will be presented as digital stories with elements of journalism on a independent blog attached to official municipality web page.
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.
There is existing partnership between NGO ŠADRVAN and NGO Greener – Association for green society. Both NGO-s have previous experience in multicultural projects and have members which are experts in areas important for this project. Local governance of Dolneny municipality is planned to become third partner. Local NGO-s and sport clubs will be invited, too.
How many participants do you think will be involved in your project?
20 young people (from Macedonian, Bosnian, Turkish, Roma and Albanian ethnic group) will be directly involved in educational workshops. They are interested to participate because there is no non formal education possibilities in this municipality and unemployment rate is very high (90% from people in age range 19-35 are unemployed). People with some digital knowledge will have advantage.
Besides the microgrant funding, what other resources and support are you seeking for your project to ensure its success?
Any kind of digital equipment will be welcomed (digital cameras, lap tops, professional photo camera). Similar experiences from other countries will be very helpful, too.
Organization
Youth cultural association of Bosnians in Macedonia – ŠADRVAN
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