This project seeks to train all students between the age of 12 to 25 with hearing and vision losses in Bushenyi Ishaka Municipality with relevant vocational trainings and workshops aimed towards empowering them on how to use digital video and essential computer programmes and applications like micro- soft word, video / audio editing and internet to enable them create a group blog to share and document life in their communities
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?
Real life inspirational group digital stories and videos.
Our vision is that the more we share and appreciate what many inspiring individuals around us are doing, the more it will raise us to a new level and inspire our own actions to make a positive impact .
Participants will be able to create real life group digital stories and videos that can be uploaded online.
What technologies and digital tools do you plan to use in the trainings?
Other tools
Computers with internet connection
Describe the connections that you or your organization have already established that will contribute to the success of the project.
We are planning to coordinate and work together with;
• Silent Voices ( CBO)
• Bushenyi Youth Initiative For Development ( CBO)
• West Ankole Civil Society Forum
• Bushenyi District Youth Network
• Bushenyi – Ishaka Municipality
How many participants do you think will be involved in your project?
Twelve participants will be trained from all the three divisions of Bushenyi- Ishaka Municipality.
Through coordinating and cooperating with both the school management, responsible parents/ guardians and facilitators.
Besides the microgrant funding, what other resources and support are you seeking for your project to ensure its success?
Effective communication assistive devices like listening and hearing devices, computers with programmed software’s, digital and voice recorders, a projector with a display screen and books with general information in regard to deafness, hearing and vision losses.
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