Proposals Nigeria from April, 2014
Nigeria: Back to Basics
I hope to train the youth on animation to produce animated short traditional igbo language moonlight folktales. This project B2B is meant to use social media to revive the dying Igbo language & culture. It's been predicted by UNESCO Advisory Committee on Language Pluralism & Multi-language Education that Igbo language & culture will go into extinct by year 2025. if nothing is done. Hence, we intend making it appealing to youth by making use of this youth friendly medium. I intend working with young people from already established skill learning set-up so as to have an organized forum
Nigeria: Building Community Voices through Storytelling
In Nigeria, various communities and minority ethnic, linguistic and religious groups are faced with political and religious discrimination. Poverty is sustained by lack of access to resources and opportunities. Insecurity retards development for rural dwellers. The project will work in Jema’a, Kaura and Zangon Kataf LGAs of Kaduna State that have faced years of religious conflicts and discrimination. It will focus on building capacities of community actors to create voice and mobilize support for issues. Digital Storytelling which combines technology and media will be utilized for trainings.
Nigeria: Finding our Voice in Violence
This project shall create an SMS platform through which individuals in undeserved communities in Lagos Nigeria can report cases of violence and crisis during in the period leading to the Nigerian elections in February 2015 till 4 months post-elections. Information from the platform will be fed to a live twitter, Facebook stream and an open source crisis hot-spot mapping (using Ushahidi). This would provide security information for the community members, wider Lagos metropolis, security agencies and in event of electoral redress.
Nigeria: Deaf Internet Awareness Outreach
We intend to promote the use of the Internet by the deaf community in Plateau state Nigeria.I intend to host a regular radio show for a 1 month period that will encourage the deafs to use ICT & inform them of immediate benefits and opportunities available online. There will also be a special 4 days ICT training and computer donation for 10 deaf institutions.I also intend to have a public page on Facebook that will forever be dedicated to providing relevant information about deafness and encouraging others to learn sign language to help bridge communication gap between the hearing.
Nigeria: Portable Water and Sanitation Against Cholera
My project would focus on a workshop to inform and re-orientate my community members on water and sanitation issues in order to help eliminate the recurring incidences of cholera and typhoid as a result of the unwholesome sources of water the community members fetch for domestic use in their homes. The need to change the already held erroneous impressions on health living and environmental issues would be changed after the workshop. participants that would be trained are going to be the real vanguard s of the change because convincing video and audio evidences would be used at the workshop.
Nigeria: Tweet Yoruba
The project provides a platform on twitter for speakers of Yoruba in Nigeria and around the world. Like the famous @sweden project, the twitter account @TweetYoruba will feature a new Yoruba speaker every fortnight, and their role will be to express themselves fully in Yoruba. The project seeks to fill a void on twitter for Yoruba speakers. Currently, there is none or few twitter accounts where one can read ONLY in Yoruba language. The domineering nature of English has crowded out the voices of local languages. Through this project, we will empower more people to use the L1 on social networks.
Nigeria: University of Ibadan Campus Environmental Discourse
At the University of Ibadan (UI) located in the south-west part of Nigeria, the environment is changing due to climate change. The perceived changes and the response of the authorities are sometimes not aligned with the expectations of the residents. There are two broad categories of residents: students who live in the hostels and staff who live in residential quarters. This work is intended to create a voice for the community online using a combination of social media tools. The content created is expected to influence the authorities decisions as regards the management of the environment.
Nigeria: Rainbow Musings
To empower youths technologically in areas of photography, video making, simple writing basics and poetry. The Rainbow-musings project is meant to rejuvenate youths of Lugbe, most of which escaped from far North-eastern Nigeria where government forces are battling insurgents who believe that ‘western civilization is evil’. Change is good, but change from affluence to penury is bad. Most of these youths have stories to tell about their survival and how they have been holding-on to life. We intend to preach HOPE to these youths by making use of attractive and youth-engaging methods.
Nigeria: Enhance Project+
Enhancing Comprehensive service delivery on TB/HIV/AIDs prevention and impact mitigation in rural communities of Nigeria through Citizen media services (ENHANCE PROJECT). ENHANCE project was born after the design of 10 year strategic plan on comprehensive TB/HIV/AIDS service delivery by our organization. Deliverable 1. The concept of this project is to trained 60 community health service providers in rural communities rural communities of Nigeria on technical ways of documenting their project report through documentary films and bring it to a global audience 2. create a blogger
Nigeria: Genderless Nigeria, Genderless Africa… Genderless Planet
To use educational perspectives to solving gender inequality and violence through media by enabling a platform to raise hopes and aspirations for girl-child in Nigeria, Africa and the world. To use students and schools as a team for the project as a catch-them-young approach to join other existing forces for gender inequalities like World Bank, United Nations to combat the challenge at the community, local, National and international level through acceptable media.
