PeaceItOut (Peace It Out) is a project by the Young Peace Builders in Sierra Leone that is aimed at creating an online and offline interactive forum for youth in Sierra Leone and abroad to share their concerns on issues affecting them and their communities, and further exchange ideas for partnership & collaboration with other youth groups and individuals in different part of the Country and beyond.
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What locality or neighborhood will your project focus on?
Freetown
Describe the specific community with whom you will be working.
Young Peace Builders is a youth-serving voluntary non-governmental, non-political and non-profit making youth-led organization seeking to create a supportive environment for the survival and development of communities and thus the projected is targeted at youth across the country especially school going creating a platform for exchange and education.
What kinds of news, stories and other content will be created?
As stated earlier, the forum will be mainly for expression of opinions especially concerning issues of concern in the different communities, in government, in their schools and issues with regards sustainable development & climate change etc. Specific topics will be chosen every month and opinions will be generated for further action by the organization. It is geared towards promoting youth participation in governance & freedom of expression.
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.
Young Peace Builders is a registered youth-serving organization with partners at local and international levels such as; Impact Generation Ghana, African Centre for Peace Building, Daphne Sawyerr-Dunn Humanitarian Missions USA, the Ministry of Youth Sierra Leone, and Mano River Union Youth Parliament etc.
How many participants do you think will be involved in your project?
It is intended that with the fund support, Young Peace Builders will create a flexible (easy to use) interactive online website where youth will have to create an account and use that to log in and participate in the forum. In order to achieve such, we shall train as many youth as possible throughout the year starting with a target of 100 youth in the first six month leading to at least 200 trained youth in a year. Sustenance through partnership.
Besides the microgrant funding, what other resources and support are you seeking for your project to ensure its success?
We as an organization will appreciate continuous partnership & collaboration in sharing the project with other possible partners, technical support, media instruments such as video camera, editing machine and exchange visits at least to have young people from Rising voices visiting our office in Sierra Leone possibly once a year to engage young people in discussions. Any other support that you also deem necessary would be highly appreciated.
Contact name
Herbert Bangura
Organization
Young Peace Builders – Sierra Leone