Proposals from April 4, 2014
Zimbabwe: Expose It
Zimbabwe is ranked among the top ten corrupt countries in the world. EXPOSE IT seeks to expose all corrupt activities by public office bearers happening at community level. The project will be using social media to convey corrupt activities by which we hope to create debate within the community and shaming corrupt officials in order to achieve community development. We hope to achieve aims not limited to the shrinkage of expressions space, the absence of transparency, respect for the rule of law and disrespect of human rights by public officials but will include restoration of confidence in co
Kenya: Youth Opportunities, Challenges for Inclusive Digital jobs
The project seeks to digitally document video & share stories on a broad range of community needs affecting youth in western Kenya,Kakamega county such as employment, access to affordable housing and secure land tenure, safer towns and participation in decision-making. The project will support Youth-led Developments (activities) in storytelling through digital photography/video, songs, poems and drawings and trainings of youth in production of digital photography/video and other skills will take part in the workshops.which gives young people valuable skills such as video production and editing
Kenya: Property and Inheritance Awareness Project
Overall description of the project: the project will involve building and/or enhancing the capacity of hopegivers organization to prevent and minimize women's human rights violation through training for appropriate skills, awareness raising and litigation assistance and foster peace and harmony among various ethnic groups in the project site. To provide precedent setting legal assistance (Test cases) to a maximum of 3 women who have been disinherited together with their children from the estate of their deceased spouses.
Kenya: Girls4dignity
IN 2011 Kenya passed a law that decriminalizes and prohibits female genital mutilation. However despite the law, the inhumane practice is still rampant in Kajiado especially among the Masai community, simply because an uncircumcised woman is looked down upon and ostracized. The project will identify and train young girls and the youth (young morans) in general on micro reporting and how they can use the digital platform and social media to blog and share their stories on these issues in an effort to advocate and eradicate female genital mutilation
Kenya: Braking The Barrier
This project aims at giving youth living with HIV the opportunity to share their experience, life styles and how they think they might have acquired the infection and how they are dealing with the social changes in terms of relationships. This will give the readers and listeners opportunity to learn from experiences of others, reduce stigma associated with HIV/AIDS and offer healing from bitterness that those already infected may harbor against those they suspect might have infected them. The program will be an interactive social media and radio based targeting youth in rural areas of Nyanza
Gambia: Voice Against Force Marriages in Wuli
Force marriage is very common in this community and its causing a lot of problem such as girls dropping out from school very early, health related risks especially during delivery. The campaign would be carried out through a blog. The project seeks to raise awareness about the many dangers associated with the practice, the benefits of girls education and the legal frameworks regard women and girls that have been enacted by the country. It would provide live picture of the practice with interviews and videos with victims, parents, teachers, policymakers, social workers etc.
