There are wide gap between boys and girls concerning education due to bad culture that tend to make female sex inferior to their male counter part.80% illiterates among rural communities are female and because of these there are high level of poverty among women. Employment opportunity therefore belong only to men making female sex almost slaves and because of all these problems,we have risen up to advocate and shout to the top of our voices.
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?
Young women,girlsand some few young men wil acquire film documentation knowledge on how to go about bringing stories on bad culture that are crippling girls education forcing them to be inferior and remaining slaves.We shall design website for all the activities promoting gender sensitivity especially in girls education.
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.
We will work with radio presenters.journalists and other relevant organisations to expose bad culture and wrong perception regarding making female slaves by only sending boys to school leaving girls for marriage.
How many participants do you think will be involved in your project?
We expect 15 participants [10 female and 5 male] to be trained about conducting documentation and publication.
Besides the microgrant funding, what other resources and support are you seeking for your project to ensure its success?
In addition to microgrant,we would like Rising Voices to further support us through film documentation and publication through website.
Also made mobility to the communities easy by cost sharing for modest transport.
Organization
Joint Women Restoration and Welfare -Uganda[JOWORWU]