Project seeks to get volunteers to train the community in digital documentation so that they can write their content, relevant to their community, take pride in their culture, lead, develop, change and voice their issues to a bigger audience.
The rural poor will have accelerated social change, empowered individuals for global and national consumption but most importantly, it will grant them an opportunity to tell its own story.
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?
The project will produce monthly video news, open air screening, film festival and a magazine. And through the establishment of community videos units, the disenfranchised produce and distribute their own locally relevant videos programs. This will capture the Batwa perspectives on a range of social issues hence drawing both visual and social powers of new technology in ways that help community achieve specific advocacy and development.
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.
The project will partner with Voice of Kigezi to help disseminate information and have a wider outreach. The project will also Partner with Imagine Uganda, an online website that promotes social good. This partnership will see the project videos are put online to a wider and global audience.
How many participants do you think will be involved in your project?
The project will take on 200 participants. Through project management the progress of all the activities will be monitored and quarterly reports on the realized lessons will be prepared.
At the end of every training, participants will fill in evaluation forms to enable the team capture the significant issues, lessons learnt and views of the participants. The trained video volunteers will help sustain the project results and continuity.
Besides the microgrant funding, what other resources and support are you seeking for your project to ensure its success?
Rising Voices will help with project promotion, sharing videos produced from the field. Acting as a point of reference will also be an added advantage as we seek further funding and partnership.
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The target group of the Batwa is very interesting and unique. Looking forward to see read and listen to content from this project
Thank you Bunnya….we wont disappoint you!
This is a good idea…together let’s help the voiceless
EVERY ONE DESERVES ARIGHT TO BE CARED FOR, LISTENED AND BEING INFORMED, AM GLAD THEY ARE PEOPLE WHO TAKE TIME AND SUPPORT AS WELL AS EDUCATE SOCIETY. LETS WORK TOGETHER AND RAISE VOICES, WILL BE GLAD TO VOLUNTEER
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very encouraging to raise the voices of minority groups of people because it’s also their fundamental human right to be heard and represented.
I can’t wait to see the pygmies tell their own story under their own directorship. And I like this website look
Hello, it will be interesting to hear other similar achievements Global Batwa Outreach has achieved in relation to Batwa community empowement and specifically where in Kabale?
Regards