Proposals from April 4, 2014
Pakistan: Use of Social Media, Online Media, Blogging, Effective Content Writing
The project will train 50 young women from the college and university level. The social media is the new emerging tool through which the girls can address the problems and issues in the society while living in Balochistan, Pakistan. The girls will get the training how they can promote their stories while using the social media/blogging/online media and effective content writing. The society which is lacking behind many things and which is completely male dominated. Women's are less educated and less empower after getting this training they will get the sense of social media.
Brazil: Minha Identidade – Meu Bairro / My Identity – My Neighborhood
Lauro de Freitas (Bahia-Brazil) present urban violence because of drug trade. This situation compromise the social harmony and the living together, laid the citizen’s life on the line, especially of the more vulnerable group as young, black and suburbs people. In 2013 the city was the VIII Municipality for youth vulnerability to the violence. For that the Project want to help these teenagers to empowerment their history and their identity, through the creation of a video where all the community will be involved. They are the actors that can change their life.
Tanzania: The Global Suitcase Network (TGSN)
TGSN is an international mutual aid community without borders united by an online portal. TGSN provisions rural community groups with supplies for small scale community improvement projects & provides information on the assets and needs of these communities to members and the world at large. It is a niche project that utilizes international travelers to carry material supplies identified by rural groups at the TGSN portal. With the help of a local support person, groups will document the use of these supplies by creating a photo blog hosted by TGSN. Travelers expand their view of the world.
Nigeria: Tweet Yoruba
The project provides a platform on twitter for speakers of Yoruba in Nigeria and around the world. Like the famous @sweden project, the twitter account @TweetYoruba will feature a new Yoruba speaker every fortnight, and their role will be to express themselves fully in Yoruba. The project seeks to fill a void on twitter for Yoruba speakers. Currently, there is none or few twitter accounts where one can read ONLY in Yoruba language. The domineering nature of English has crowded out the voices of local languages. Through this project, we will empower more people to use the L1 on social networks.
Bosnia Herzegovina: Citizen Journalism Video-blog
The project “Citizen journalism“ is a video-blogging kind of project. It will be used to indicate problems in 30 local communities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and to demonstrate the democratization. ONAuBiH will create a network of 30 local teams in 30 communities of Bosnia and Herzegovina in order to perform this project. Each local team is consisted of young people (15-30 years old) who will, using their smartphones, cell-phones, tablets and other technical equipment, each week make a 3-5 minutes video, indicating problem(s) in their community. Videos will be uploaded to social networks.
Nepal: Know Your Rights : Act Upon It!
The project is a campaign that kicks off with a two day workshop training 30 young women about women’s rights and how they can promote and create awareness about these rights to fellow young women. Today, internet is very powerful and Social media is an influential tool to advocate and reach out to young women and has multiple effects. During training, they will create a common online platform Blog, Facebook and Twitter page to share different women’s rights related information, issues and help young women to be aware about those rights and also seek solutions,, collaborate and take action.
India: Empowering Community Through Health
Community information campaign through Mobile phone , primarily offers rural women and marginalised communities some hope to participate in gender just governance mechanism in the state . For the first time low literate and rural women can listen to information on maternal and child health, sexual and reproductive health and other gender equality related mass campaigns.
USA: Tiyospaye’ Fresh Foods and Farmers Market
We are from Allen, South Dakota a small town of approx. 1200 people located on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation of South Dakota. Our aim is to establish a community garden project in which we will empower our local tribal members to grow their own fresh produce and eventually establish a local farmers market in which other communities could be involved. We are hoping to establish a local farmers market for the reason being that fresh produce is very hard to obtain locally ,the nearest grocery store with fresh produce such as fruits and vegetables is approx. 18 miles away and prices are high.
Cameroon: The Plight of Single Teenage Mothers in African Communities
Single teenage mothers suffer stigmatisation and discrimination daily in their lives from family through the community. This has led to many of them being infected through continuous sexual abuse, rape and assaults. In some cases femicide has been committed against them. In a nutshell, we want to restore these victims as survivors in communities and empower them through vocational or professional trainings that would build their skills and offer them with sustainable means of livelihood through access to support for micro business incentives. Also, enable them to care for their children.
Nigeria: University of Ibadan Campus Environmental Discourse
At the University of Ibadan (UI) located in the south-west part of Nigeria, the environment is changing due to climate change. The perceived changes and the response of the authorities are sometimes not aligned with the expectations of the residents. There are two broad categories of residents: students who live in the hostels and staff who live in residential quarters. This work is intended to create a voice for the community online using a combination of social media tools. The content created is expected to influence the authorities decisions as regards the management of the environment.
