Proposals from April 9, 2014
Brazil: Youth the Margins of São Francisco River
The Youth Project Margins of the São Francisco River aims to enable young people to use social media, focusing on the production of a documentary. This in turn will meet the youth who live on the banks of the São Francisco River, their stories, problems and especially their life stories. The project will also promote the creation of various social media to encourage youth participation in decision facing the social, environmental and cultural issues of the São Francisco River.
Bangladesh: CANCER Project in Moulvibazar
In Moulvibazar the literacy rate is significantly low and there is little knowledge and awareness on harmful effect of tobacco use. The poor day labourers, adibashi, women, boys, teachers, religious leaders, Mattabbar, UP Members, Chairmans take beedis, cigarettes, tobacco with betel leaf and other tobacco products ignoring country's legislation and FCTC convention. CANCER (Cooperation & Assistance for Narcotic Control for Enlighten Human Resources) Project aims to educate/capacitated to local level administration and community for ensuring smoke free environment involving UP/Village Courts.
Yemen: Yemeni Women Storyteller
Yemeni Storyteller Organization(YSTR,) is the name of my project. It aims to invest in women's minds, through books. It encourages women to write stories ( about their life or others’ life). The goals are: – QUID women to write stories that documented (their life or other women's daily life) in Yemeni society. – ENCOURAGE them to talk about their problems, their dreams, their hopes, and their disappoint. – LEARN women to criticize the wrong behavior and bad treatment they face in the society. Those stories would be first step calling for justice and equality.
Cameroon: A l'Ecole du Blog
The Blogging School Project involves partnerships with schools and colleges aimed at mobilising the personnel of the Cameroonian Bloggers’ Collective to densely populate the Cameroonian blogosphere by training young students in blog creation through basic training sessions thereby enabling them to be subsequently independent in the management of these blogs. Various bloggers, depending on their specialisations would lead timely training sessions in selected institutions. Most platforms would be hosted by WordPress.com, which offers free blogs, and subsequent arrangements would be put in place.
Kosovo: Same City, Different Stories
Sharing Realities/Story telling through photography – among various ethnic groups (Albanians, Serbs, RAE, Bosnians and Turks) living in Mitrovica (North and South) in Kosovo, which still remains the only divided and tensed city in Balkans. These stories will highlight what it takes to live in the same city but having and experiencing different lives imposed from the post conflict circumstances. We plan to implement a series of training sessions in order to train the participants on photography and blogging about sharing realities context and lastly publishing all the stories in an E-book.
Egypt: Bdroom
www.bdroom.org is the site of Art Independent was the beginning of the work since June 12, 2013 and is the site interested in music and graffiti and independent films with ,, where we have archiving and propaganda ,, We want to make the basement venue offers an integrated technical support and publicity for artists and those who want to deliver their art and their knowledge of the people in general and to the activities of cultural institutions and facilitate access to the public.
Sub-Saharan Africa: 100 Voices for the 100 Campaign
Insulin is a lifesaving medication needed for survival of people living with type 1 diabetes. Despite being used for 92 years to treat type 1, millions in the world don’t have access. The 100 Campaign is a movement founded by insulin access advocates working to mobilize the global action needed to achieve 100% access by the 100th anniversary of insulin’s first use. This project aims to 1) amplify and humanize the voices of those from the around the world who are living with diabetes 2) share first-hand the barriers that many experience 3) foster a global community 4) low cost advocacy tool.
Kenya: Campus for Transparency
Campus youth are also adversely affected by a lack of transparency but they have few avenues of talking about it, and the project aims to identify champions of transparency:give them a platform to add their voice through citizen journalism/media.“Campus” students will have an opportunity to increase their awareness on corruption risks, corrective actions and milestones/success stories and also influence others by collecting and sharing human interest stories of how corruption has affected the society and above all tell positive stories that will trigger social behaviour change.
Kenya: Online Election
Do develop a smartphone application which will be used in online voting or carrying out various surveys for research purposes.The application will be developed in windows and Androids.This application will be of great use in most developing countries and the globe at large.Voting in elections and electionering process is a big huddle. If it can be sorted out with applications which runs in web base then it will be a solution for the world wide web users and the world at large.
Nigeria: Moving for a Megacity
Gbagyis live in rural and peri-urban communities with little or no basic utilities, amenities and facilities. Their resettlement are often demolished to further expand the Federal Capital Territory. As they move further from the city center, they also move away from power, portable water, good roads, quality health and education.The project raises awareness of the trauma the Gbagyis have been through for the development of Nigeria’s capital city: shows the gaps between the ‘newcomers’ and the original land owners and documents the rich Gbagyi heritage for posterity.
