Every day thousands of babies are conceived and some are born into this world that is faced with the HIV/AIDS disease that is a threat to mankind. By using different citizen media tools e.g. blogs, social networking sites, mobile phone, digital story telling/video etc on a large scale, the project will reach out to the community with the objective creating a free HIV generation, increasing awareness of prevention of mother to child transmissio
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?
We establish a team of volunteers comprising of community members,youth,doctors, and health workers that will carry out the vision of the project we will develop resource materials, publications and training manuals during and after project implementation that can help others to get guidance & enhance their skills. Trained women will have produced some of the following content & will continue with beyond the project life for the cause:
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What technologies and digital tools do you plan to use in the trainings?
Other tools
Blogs, social networking sites, mobile phone, digital story telling/video, testimonies from HIV posi
Describe the connections that you or your organization have already established that will contribute to the success of the project.
We plan to approach the professionals & organizations to help us to achieve the desired project outputs such as but not limited to: a) IT professional persons: who can help to train the participants on creating digital stories etc; b) Professional photographer: to train on how to shoot breathtaking images & videos; c) Professional Journalists: training on how to write a news story, to enable them produce their own media to give themselves a voice
How many participants do you think will be involved in your project?
Around 100 committed health workers, women and youth from different communities who can further volunteer imparting the same training to their fellows; will be selected on some set criteria.The trained youth will also be trained on Peer Education & will sign pledges to at least each one teach one. 20 more volunteers will be trained to work for the cause using mobile helplines to attend to immediate issues and to give emergency advise and help
Besides the microgrant funding, what other resources and support are you seeking for your project to ensure its success?
Besides funding, Rising Voices will be asked for technical guidance on some of the content to make the project more effective and also provide resources on how best we can conduct the project. We will be in need of projectors and computers, a van and public address system to make our project achieve its objectives
Organization
Pathways Foundation Tanzania
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