The project will focus on learning and information sharing among youth who live with and those affected by HIV/AIDS by developing interactive youth community forums which will help them speak out and share their life stories, Testimonies and plight of living with HIV/AIDS and share their experiences with other communities. Encourage involvement and participation in social networks, digital video and digital photograph to fight stigma and disc
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What locality or neighborhood will your project focus on?
Soroti Town
Describe the specific community with whom you will be working.
90% of the youth community in Soroti District have not participated in learning and information sharing forums on HIV/AIDS, access to information centers, internet cafes is hard, this makes them underrepresented and their voices are not heard and their is no community blog or center which would help raise their voices. The project will involve and encourage active youth participation in documenting, networking and sharing of information.
What kinds of news, stories and other content will be created?
A learning and information sharing environment with rich developed community skill to share, encouraging active involvement and raise out their voices to be heard a cross a numbers of communities. creating a community blog and information data base which will be a hub of information sharing and learning, widen their abilities to collect, document and upload information gathered for proper management, advocate for increase youth.
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.
Plan to build partnerships with World vision Uganda on networking and expertise and on documentation and development of the community blog, Itech technologies for advice. will build partnership will the local government Authorities for security.
How many participants do you think will be involved in your project?
The project will train up to 100 Community Youth changing my world volunteers who will be based in the selected community. their participation will be voluntary and active involvement will determine the those to be involved in the project. their participation will be sustained through providing refreshment and transport refund especially during community forums, digital photography and digital video shoot.
Besides the microgrant funding, what other resources and support are you seeking for your project to ensure its success?
Support of a tent to act as a community learning and networking center which will act as a community dialogue point. Laptop for documenting of information field information and progress. Development of Information and communication materials this will help spread information and will fight ignorance among the youth community.
Contact name
Opuru Emmanuel Paul
Organization
Charity women Association