The project entitled “Raising the voiceless through IT/Media” will tackle issues related to commercial sex exploitation affecting communities in Northern Ugandan, and it will target two Luo tribes that is; the Langi and the Acholi focusing mainly on children. The Langi and Acholi children in Northern Uganda.Groups of children will be trained from the local communities, and they will be trained to use IT/Media to share their stories.
What locality or neighborhood will your project focus on?
The project will be based in Northern part of Uganda (Otuke and Agago), the Acholi and lango sub-regions.
Describe the specific community with whom you will be working.
What kinds of news, stories and other content will be created?
Since the target group are children, Stories will be created through comic books and story books to gain their interest, demonstrative activities will be a part of the activities where there will be role plays, music and drama using the local languages. Participants will be trained to use these activities when communicating to the rest of world.
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.
Our organization has formed youth groups in the local communities, that work with the local people on areas of health, child advocacy and lobby through local authorities.
We have existing partnership with the Government of Uganda through Constituency Development Fund.
How many participants do you think will be involved in your project?
250 participants will be trained. The project will seek and sustain their participation by involving the local leaders and directly keeping in touch with them through visits, workshops and fun activities.
We will motivate the participants through appreciation for instance giving gifts and certificates to the trainees.
Besides the microgrant funding, what other resources and support are you seeking for your project to ensure its success?
Resources like computers, cameras (video and still) will contribute to the success of this project.
Organization
Family Initiatives For Sustainable Development (FIDEV)
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20 comments
it is really needed for the children of Northern Uganda
Great Job,for the inventing such a remarkable project in Northern Uganda(i might say this was a big waiting dream for every Northerners),this Amazing project will now turn down the bad and worse historical moment of more than 2 decades of tortured for innocent people,e.g children and women.
surely,Rising the voice…i consider it as a defender and protector of the Human rights,this including Luo communities.Rising the voice will defiantly be ”voice rising”to the peak and even over the boundary possibly, in order to highlight the major problems affecting the general community, mainly women and child sexual abused…I urge with confidence for both,inventors and coordinators of this project to advocating without fear or favour.
thank u all for your continuous support and acknowledgement. If we do get through we will keep you updated in every step of the way, and also seek your advice or participation in the project.
Great pursuit!
What is the desired tangible outcome for the target communities?
How will knowing their rights solve the practical problems they have e.g. will it be an effort to champion their need for education, electricity, water and seek funding for follow-on projects that will deliver these?
S.A.Y
Thank you all for all your wonderful remarks in regards to this project, to answer your question S.A.Y, about the tangible outcome for these communities, i would like to begin by saying that this training will mainly focus on helping them learn how to use IT/Media to reach out to the rest of the world to help them solve their problems, by enlightening them about their human rights and how to deal with different problematic situations when need arises for instance since we are tackling sexual exploitation they will be trained how to protect themselves through prevention based activities, that is seeking assistance before it happens or if it does happen how to seek for help to bring justice to the criminals and all this, through the use of IT/Media.
Thank you.
Dear Jasper
This is a noble dea, go ahead and assist the children in what ever ay you can. While you raise the children’s voices do not forget the healing process is most important. Let the process heal the children and community. Thank you brother. Irene