In wallabies we have made a film about Bulling called Carpe Diem, is a story in video with a duration of 45 minutes, was conducted with funds and especially with the help of the people of Perspire in Honduras, the film is ready for play in to schools and public institutions in Honduras, but lack the funds to do so. The Carpe Diem project is based on raising funds for our film project throughout the country and especially in schools and public schools in cases where you record and Bulling are increasingly frequent, in each presentation will be held a forum where raise the issue in more dept
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What locality or neighborhood will your project focus on?
Tegucigalpa
Describe the specific population with whom you will be working.
Honduras is considered one of the world's most violent country, where 75% of the population is young people, young people are immersed in a culture of violence, where policies are exclusionary and repressive governments, young people are increasingly more social difficulties to get ahead, this is added to a growing culture of Bulling, to which the authorities are powerless because it is usually invisible, Carpe Diem Project, intended to cover a population of 2000 young people, which will become the target audience we want to raise awareness about the problem of Bulling in Honduras.
Besides presenting the actors in each film and the technical team will be responsible for leading each discussion group.This project aims to make presentations in different places in Honduras.
Who else will be on your team to help implement the project?
Within the project the young people will be involved in the making of the film, as well as young people who acted in it, are young community leaders Pespire, a rural village in the south of Honduras, a town that is characterized by the population who are mostly young, but further characterized by the few opportunities that these young people to succeed his community, who are also young people who have been victims of bullying.
What kinds of news, stories and other content will be created?
Each presentation will be documented on video, and we will make a video of the best evidence on bullying and how to report it and prevent it will be done.
What technologies and digital tools do you plan to use in the trainings?
Describe the connections that you or your organization have already established or plan to establish that will contribute to the success of the project.
Walabis is a nonprofit organization with over fifteen years of work in community arts, which we link with other national and international organizations working art and development. Especially with those organizations working with young people.
That's why we believe the Carpe Diem project will be successful because the partner organizations vincularíamos to film presentations and chat.
The film Carpe Diem, is performed by young people and youth who will be responsible for making the roundtable discussion after each presentation are youth teaching youth from their perspective.
How many participants do you think will be trained in your project?
Young people who made the film are about 20, who were trained in different areas of audiovisual production:
Camera, sound, directing, acting, these youth also form part of the permanent workshops Magical Drop directs wallabies in southern Honduras, a project that is aimed at training young people in different artistic disciplines and especially active in the project community development.
Describe which technologies, tools, and media you will focus on when training participants.
Youth participating in the project are carpe Diem about 10, they are the makers of the film, they were trained in different artistic areas, including:
Painting, photography, mural painting, theater, stilts, juggling, sound, camera etc..
These young people would be accompanied by one or two members d wallabies Carpe Diem presented the film at colleges and schools of different departments of Honduras.
Describe the facilities where you will hold the workshops.
The Gota Mágica project coordinated by walabis, is headquartered in Pespire, on-site spaces are enabled and has the basic logistics for workshops. The spaces are enabled with minimal equipment and tools to work in training young
What is your current relationship with the community with whom you plan to work? What makes you the most appropriate individual or organization to implement this project?
The work done in the south walabis Pespire is well regarded by the community and have the active participation of key members and organized community groups, as active members of Gota Magica project.
also Drop Magic and the Carpe Diem project benefits the participants, with their constant training, and helped many young people to find a different way forward, being more creative and with a positive mindset and a collective and community perspective, active young people are involved in community activities. is why the carpe Diem project would help these young people to protrude, making them Visible to be taken into account, and achieve their personal aspirations.
What specific challenges do you expect to face when planning and implementing your project?
One of the major challenges of this project is the high rate of violence in Honduras, the project is referred to community youth Pespire travel to different schools and colleges in different departments of Honduras, to present the movie made about bulling , within the group we have young children, and that's a risk because the country is going through the worst crisis in the history of violence, the roads in the interior become perfect traps for criminals and all organized crime from taking over them, almost 80% of the population have been affected in one way or another by violence and crime wave in the country.
Carpe Diem is why the project will involve members of the national police in each of the presentations as well as violence and crime have reached classrooms in most schools in
How will you measure and evaluate the project’s impact, specifically: your primary participants, the wider regional community, or the global digital community?
The impact of the main project of the project we will measure the population would be sensitized on the issue of bullying in the different departments of Honduras, we thought it would be an estimated 2000 students from colleges and schools that would see the film and then the population would conversation about bullying, this would generate awareness of the problem especially in schools happens more often that steps should we take to prevent it.
Another serious impacts visibility youth Pespírences, which are the protagonists of the film, being recognized by the community of Pespire and interior.
Another impact would be the visibility of the people as the film shows the most interesting areas of the region.
If your project were to be selected as a Rising Voices grantee, what would be the general timeline of project activities in 2014?
If the project is selected Carpe Diem our timeline out, after disbursement of funds, we would start planning the tour and especially to define our itinerary that schools and colleges would visit first, we thought that in a three month time would cover the 2000 youth population.
Detail a specific budget of up to $2,500 USD for operating costs.
Coordination of the tour
Includes contact the organizations that support us in finding schools and colleges in the area to visit
Make copies of movies
Phone calls
Expenditure copies
Total: $ 500
Tour introduced in different places in Honduras
Presentation in:Tegucigalpa, Tela, Copan, Comayagua
The costs would be Hotel, transportation and food for the young participants in each location would be two days, which will make several presentations in different schools and colleges.
Total: $ 2,500
Besides the microgrant funding, what other support can Rising Voices provide for your project to ensure its success?
A Part of the fund, walabis could ask for sponsorship to cover some expenses, such as transportation to visit other schools what we found on the road, or snacks when presented with children in public schools.
Contact name
Douglas omar Alonzo salgado
Organization
Walabis
