Proposals from April 2, 2014
Ukraine: Gender Campaign “Why Should I Be Hired”
The problem of employment of women in recent years in Ukraine became especially important: state does not provide an adequate number of places for young professionals who graduated; private employers refuse to employ women and persons without work experience and persons over 40 years. The most pressing issue, especially in Lviv City and Lviv region, is ignoration by employers of women candidates in the provision of work. Employer Motivation: a future pregnancy, pay social payments associated with children, a number of benefits in performance, gender stereotypes, and so on.
Nigeria: Genderless Nigeria, Genderless Africa… Genderless Planet
To use educational perspectives to solving gender inequality and violence through media by enabling a platform to raise hopes and aspirations for girl-child in Nigeria, Africa and the world. To use students and schools as a team for the project as a catch-them-young approach to join other existing forces for gender inequalities like World Bank, United Nations to combat the challenge at the community, local, National and international level through acceptable media.
Kenya: Tweets4D
Tweets4D is anchored on the high mobile phones penetration in Africa. At just over 600 million phones, it’s undoubtedly the most preferred ICT tool for information access. Tweeter has an SMS system which allows individual subscribers using feature phones to send short text messages at the local cost of service providers. We propose the Siaya County Community Hall Of Fame where we will use Tweeds4D to identify untold community stories and tales and highlight heroes. This will inspire and elevate role models as well as keep our culture alive. This info/content will be on a website.
Uganda: Beat the Heat “Find Your Mind”
Beat the Heat“find your mind,” is Befriender Uganda’s proposed mental health improvement and promotion project for metal health service users and their care givers. The project is based on story telling by sharing experiences and best practices between and among service user, their care givers and the general public. The program is aimed at achieving self-awareness and promoting a help seeking behavior among the mental health service users/ patients and their care givers with the aim of reducing drug abuse, promotion of mental stability and a improved social support at the family level.
Nigeria: Empowered
The project I propose is to train ten citizen journalists in Ondewari community in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, Nigeria to report about their communities using mobile phones.
Cambodia: Indigenous Voice Through Video and Internet
The project will support video and audio production by indigenous peoples in remote northeastern Cambodia. This is so they can document their issues across language barrier (by using dubbing and sub-titling) and upload the video on blogs and websites to reach both national and international audiences. This possible now because a small number of indigenous people have learnt video and audio production, a community advisory group formed, and an indigenous peoples’ media support NGO is being created.
Nigeria: Ibasa Riverside Women News
This is a training for 10 women in Ibasa to become citizen journalists and report issues of women online. The women will learn how to report breaking news with their phones and also social networking.
Togo: Tools to Boost Online Campaigns – Togo Nyonu
TOGO NYONU (which means Togolese woman) is a platform dedicated to Togolese women’s rights. The web site will be a steppingstone to activists, associations and local organizations of women to highlight their actions and online campaigns. Apart from news stories, interviews, success stories, this innovative web portal will offer tool kits and customized free courses that will allow activists to maximize the impact of their online campaigns to raise awareness on injustices and discriminations against women.
Zimbabwe: Citizenship-less – The Lived Realities of Deaf Youths
The project seeks to create an online documentary on the lives of deaf youths and the challenges they face. The documentary will work as an advocacy tool to educate the public and policy makers on the challenges faced by the Deaf youths in Zimbabwe. The documentary will give a chance to the deaf youths to tell their stories on how they have survived with marginalization and stigma. The Deaf are an invisible population in Zimbabwe and they are voiceless which is exacerbated by the invisible nature of their disability. the documentary will increase public awareness on the live of the Deaf.
Colombia: Youth Digital Newspaper
The project will strengthen the only Youth Newspaper in Cajamarca, Colombia, to inform community about the grave Human Rights situation (two enviromentalist murders) , the mining impacts, the women claim, the citizen participation, etc, generating a concrete possibility to facilitate that each person in the world can accede to information that the newspaper publishes in a virtual platform. To the success of the project is necessary supplies training about design and use of websites, also acquire equipment, the trainig and link of digital reporters.
