The project is being proposed to find ways of involving and engaging the multi-cultural Kiryandongo community in reporting issues that affect them, share those they feel passionate about through a platform and identify local solutions.
It will teach residents to record and edit voices on Audacity for a community podcast to be uploaded online and distributed to radio stations in the region for a wider reach aimed at improving their lives.
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What locality or neighborhood will your project focus on?
Kiryandongo Town
Describe the specific community with whom you will be working.
Kiryandongo is a multi-cultural setting with mostly refugees from Kenya, Sudan, DRC and Ugandans displaced from the North and East by civil strife and mudslide. These people suffer silently; Listening to these “silent voices” when they are engage in recording their stories, will coincide with ‘rising voices’ mission of bringing voices from underrepresented communities to the online global conversation through the use of citizen media
What kinds of news, stories and other content will be created?
Stories on everyday people with ordinary lives and numerous challenges. People in such a diverse and multi-cultural settings face, how they face or overcome challenges. Giving an insight to their rise and thrive and bringing out some missing links like the necessary interventions by governments to support the community and whether or not the interventions are helping, with a Vision of creating a peaceful, developed and informed community.
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 plan to strengthen the existing relations between the local leadership who are working closely with journalists based in this area. The grassroots population speaks local language which PJF members are well versed with.
PJF being a peace media organization is already working closely with other stake holders in building confidence and encouraging Ugandans to be vigilant especially in combating terrorism and extreme violence.
How many participants do you think will be involved in your project?
The project is set to train 60 people in three seminars. (20 participants per training with 5 people per computer). The number fits the 4 editing computers the foundation has. Technical training will be both group and individual level for better result. This number makes a divisional representation with Gender and youth in mind. By engaging them to record and edit they will become active hence the spirit of ownership and sustainability.
Besides the microgrant funding, what other resources and support are you seeking for your project to ensure its success?
The key resources we would need are recorders, a bigger internet megabits, transport, cover for hotel expenses like (food, venue and conference facilities) where the training workshops will be held and a stipend for the trainers. Much as the foundation has its premises in the capital Kampala, for the purposes of the start of this project, we shall need an office space in Kiryandongo for safety of project equipments.
Contact name
Gloria Laker Aciro
Organization
The Peace Journalism Foundation Uganda