A move to leverage Rwanda’s mandatory Umuganda (monthly community service day) that brings all able bodied persons above the age of 18 and below 65 to participate in volunteer community work. This projects aims to mobilize communities to share experiences, challenges and solutions for the day aka umunsi w’umuganda, meaning “contribution made by the community as a contribution and building the country by citizens themselves.
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?
Real development occurrences realized from Umuganda will for the first time be aired out by the participants themselves. Events related to Umuganda will be announced, photo and video features about the activities. The residents will record their activities with audio and this will be uploaded online and linked with social media sites for everyone else to share and comment.
What technologies and digital tools do you plan to use in the trainings?
Other tools
Social Media, blogging, digital audio for upload, SMS
Describe the connections that you or your organization have already established that will contribute to the success of the project.
We live in Kigali and we participate in Umuganda every month. We are linked to the local council leaders “Abayobozi”, local government, hospitals and several corporates and civil society who from time to time participate by offering free professional pro-community services to the communities as a way to build the country.
How many participants do you think will be involved in your project?
While this project will have a Domino-effect to the entire country of Rwanda, because Umuganda happens all over the country, we hope to train 50 community leaders. We also plan to rope in the ministry of local government which is in charge of Umuganda and this will keep the project going.
Besides the microgrant funding, what other resources and support are you seeking for your project to ensure its success?
We will happily love to get video tutorials, audio and video editing software, the presence of an expert assigned by Rising Voices.
Organization
‘MPRESS Africa Communications