Proposals Kenya from March, 2014
Kenya: Free to Be Me Without Drugs
Drug abuse is prevalent in Malindi. Finding strategies for drug abuse prevention and rehabilitation of users are some of the things that the society is trying to do. My proposal is to use digital media to highlight the issues surrounding drug abuse. This includes adverse effects of drug abuse like HIV prevalence, violence against women, the struggles of drug addicts and why it is so easy for drugs to find their way into the society. Our proposal is to train young people on how they can use the digital platform to blog and share their stories on these issues in an effort to eradicate drug abuse
Kenya: Bunge
We get youths from different slums around Nairobi. We train them on how to do audio visual digital story making techniques. This will give them a platform and opportunity to learn how to tell their own stories and have a voice of their own. For some it will be a source of their daily bread. Bunge will be a platform where they can discuss issues affecting their communities. They will film the process and upload it on social media.
Kenya: Community Transparency Network
CTN proposes to initiate a community communication hub in Vihiga county to enhance community members participation in decision making of matters affecting their lives and sharing their experience with the global world.The group will run a county weekly edition, a social media platform where members will be able to access vital information and also share. The group will also run a community journalism training center where coverage of public resource management from village level to county level.
Kenya: MCF4us
Proper Information communication technology infrastructure yet to be fully exploited by the residents of Makueni County, the ministry of education has been on the forefront in the utilization of ICT in training especially in secondary schools thereby improving its usage. The main users of ICT services are youth and the salaried workers who use the internet enabled phones and modems. The county needs to improve in ICT training in order to take advantage of the available opportunities especially with the construction of Konza Technpolis City which is located in the county.
Kenya: Youth Advocacy
I would like to train and mentor up to 20 Kuria youths to be citizen journalists at NURU International center. They will be part and parcel of the Royal Media Group. The training will cover the use of free and widely available citizen media tools and social media like blogs,microblogs such as twitter,Video sites like YouTube, free software like Audacity, Social networking sites like Facebook. Focus of the project is to revive the dieing Kuria language and culture through digital storytelling,Songs,Dancing,Poems and Education. All these will be uploaded and/or downloaded and listened to.
Kenya: Community Media Initiative
Community Media Initiative proposes to bridge the gap of information in the rural grass root communities via digital media.We shall highlight the issues that affect the society,document and use it to enlighten the community by doing community outreaches and video shows hence provide a platform on which their stories and views are shared with the global community.With effective use of social media,we hope to keep the community updated on current affairs and explore opportunities that are available for them as alternative means of livelihoods.
Kenya: Tana River Civic Education Network
This is a project of Kenya Sustainable Health Aid (KESHA) working in Tana County in Kenya. The project will create a group page in the facebook social media i.e TANA RIVER CIVIC EDUCATION NETWORK. The project will training the youth on how to use internet mobile phones to the use the web page and invite many youth to the page. The page will be updating the members with information about governance and democracy issues affecting Tana County. Majority of them owns phones hence this project will improve their participation in governance and democracy, and hold their leaders accountable.
Kenya: The Unheard
The aim is to train, facilitate, promote and create more awareness among the youth and the public on how to use social media, specifically YouTube, to air their views and also affect change in the local communities. This is by creating a youth online tv channel. Traditional media in Kenya is far too inadequate and not focused on issues affecting the youth, while leaders and policy makers are less concerned in involving the youth even on matters affecting the youth.
Kenya: The Speak OUT!!! Project
Project seeks to digitally document and share stories of human rights violations meted against children between the ages of ten and fifteen in two counties in Kenya by harnessing their creative abilities and enabling them to tell stories through song, cartoon, illustrations, poems, and drawings. Outcome to be shared through a facebook page, a blog, twitter account and websites of our networks. The project will uncover the unstated human rights violations meted against children. Focus of the project is child battering, sexual exploitation, dating, parenting, alcohol abuse and life expectations
