Proposals Kenya
Kenya: Do Not Buy Stolen Property – Kisumu City
“Do Not Buy Stolen Property” is a project that aim to use citizen media to promote good citizenship and personal responsibility by discouraging the residents of Kisumu City from buying stolen goods or goods from questionable sources. The overall objective of this campaign is to discourage the involvement of young people in crime by reducing the number of channels through which they can convert stolen goods into cash.
Kenya: Group Chatting
Since 2010, Kenya took the route of devolved governance which has since been offering governance of the country at two levels; the national and county governments. Devolution has brought services and governance closer to the people but the people still know very little about it. We are taking advantage of the Devolved set up of Counties as our Main Organizing system of our Group Chatting for the people to educate themselves. We will then use the existing Youth, Women and People Living with Disabilities Groups, to start on-line discussions through the web.
Kenya: Giving Disabled Children in Slums a Voice
We will train parents of children with disabilities in Kibera slums, Nairobi, in citizen media. This will enable them to share their stories and those of their children with disabilities with the world through video, photography, and social media. We will train them to report on Project Play Day, in which children with and without disabilities from Kibera slums, Nairobi work side-by-side on art and play together to promote mutual understanding and inclusion. Giving a voice to disabled children in slum areas will increase social inclusion of disabled children in Kenyan society and beyond
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
Kenya: Guza Initiative
Guza Initiative is a swahili word for touch, The project aims at touching the community, through different tools of citizen media especially in Kibera slums. Guza Initiative is aimed at empowering youths from Kibera slums to be able to use Digital media tools to tell their own stories by themselves and make their voices heard. Guza Initiative is a project that will involve training youths from Kibera slums on using camera, mobile phones and Blogging sites to be able to make video and online reports on what goes on in their community, hence give the community a voice.
Kenya: Tweets4D
Tweets4D is anchored on the high mobile phones penetration in Africa. At just over 600 million phones, it’s undoubtedly the most preferred ICT tool for information access. Tweeter has an SMS system which allows individual subscribers using feature phones to send short text messages at the local cost of service providers. We propose the Siaya County Community Hall Of Fame where we will use Tweeds4D to identify untold community stories and tales and highlight heroes. This will inspire and elevate role models as well as keep our culture alive. This info/content will be on a website.
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
