The empowerment will be targeting 60 women ages 21-35 and 90 girls ages 15-20 mainly from Osun State towns and villages for a period of 4 Months. They would be expose to workshops and training on how to access citizen media as a way to express themselves. The last month will be used for assessment and evaluation in Women inspiration Development Center. The Girls and women would be gathered from secondary schools and communities round the state
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?
There will be emphasis on the culture of silence in Nigeria that makes women to be passive, disengaged and disinterested on issues around them. As a result of this culture, domestic violence, using women, girls and girl children for rituals and limited leadership opportunities continue to plague Nigerian women. Women and girls would be encouraged to tell their stories and experience as regards this as they connect to citizen media
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.
Women Inspiration Development Center, my NGO have just established Vocational and Violence free Girls Club(VVIFREG) in secondary schools in Nigeria. We also have mentors for these club locally and internationally. This project will target the local mentors and the leaders of these clubs. As they go through this training and workshops, they will become part of global social network as a way to raise their voices on women and girls issues.
How many participants do you think will be involved in your project?
60 women, ages 21-35 and 90 girls, ages 15-21 will be trained in this project. The cybercafe will continue to be of service for the participants and other women and girls in the community after the project at half price of what is operating in other cafes to continue to sustain the source of the internet connection.
Besides the microgrant funding, what other resources and support are you seeking for your project to ensure its success?
Though we are hoping to embark on this project with two desktops and two modems but if rising voices could send us more computers apart from the micro grant funding, it will alleviate the problem of inadequate equipment during the training.
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Women Inspiration Development center
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