Proposals Ethnicity & Race
Pakistan: The Minority's Voice
Our goal is to work in collaboration with The Garage School, an NGO engaged in educating the under-privileged children from a slum area located in Clifton, Karachi. Most of these children and their families belong to various religious minority groups. We wish to educate these children and their mothers in various social networking tools to spread their stories and problems on a larger platform through a series of workshops.
Colombia: La Toma Roots
Recover the historical memory of the community Afro Colombian La Toma, in the department of Cauca. Empowering young people of the community in the use and appropriation of digital communication tools that allow them to present their cultural and ancestral heritage. We define three processes: 1. Collect information on the community through interviews and documents 2. Curated information 3. Publication and dissemination of knowledge
Brazil: The Speech Quilombola – River of Black Drum
This project aims to train and empower 20 young Maroons of the city of New Airão. These young people will be trained in the use of digitial video and use the Internet network to keep the videos on the network. The terinamento will also discuss cultural and social characteristics of this ethnic group, aiming to support the creation of digital videos.
Brazil: AfroAudiovisualSchool
The proposal presented here want to empower people of african descent, young and adults, in the development and dissemination of audiovisual publications. We also will create an “educommunicative” model for interventions in public spaces and to interchange our learning process to other networks already organized. This initiative is connected with a larger project of ethnic-racial education to promote black culture in Brazil.
Macedonia: My Ordinary Roma Life
The overall goal is to positively promote the Roma ethnic group through usage of media tools as well to start on-line and public discussion on stereotypes and prejudice towards Roma community in the country and ways of overcoming them. The objective is to train 10 young Roma community members on the techniques of using media tools in positive promotion of the community and to compose video through photo's of ordinary day of 5 Roma families.
Romania: Colourblind Blogs
Technical assistance to promote the daily events for identity of the Roma minority using new media, specifically Blogs. Increasing public awareness on positive models of Roma communities in five selected comunities in a period of 5 months. These two specific objectives contribute to the overall objective of the project, namely: increasing youth communication in online environments through their work on an online environments.
Romania: Photo Voices
The project is to strengthen te abilities of a group of adolescents and youth who currently have no abilities for making an online photo exposition. The participants will develope and disseminate stories by a blog. The project will empower the adolescents with communication and news blogging skills, use of internet and website uploading and pave a way to reach a larger community and share the live of a roma comunities with photo art.
Nepal: Our Untold Stories
The project involves collecting videos of the dalit (untouchable) people about their life experiences and stories, the difficulties and discriminations they have faced, how they overcame such problems, success stories from their communities. The project aims at developing their self-esteem and confidence and inspires them to break the existing systematic oppression through the expression of their lives with the medium of citizen media.
Spain: Arakélame en Caló
This projetc is about “caló”, which is a lenguage that gypsy people speak. We want to make this community use new technologies to learn about their culture through its languaje and make it konwn to the people.
