Proposals Sub-Saharan Africa from April, 2014
Uganda: Citizen Journalism and Community Entrepreneurship Training for Deaf Youth
Uganda has the highest rate of youth in the world. 77% are between the ages of 15 and 24 years. However, 83% are unemployed due to the lack of vocational skills and youth with disability face the toughest challenges. We will train 10 youth with hearing impairment in videography and community leadership with our popular training called Citizen Journalism and Community Entrepreneurship. They will learn how to use photography and videography to document successful and practical solutions to self-employment and share them with other disabled youth for inspiration and instant replication.
Nigeria: Sustainable Colony
The Ago Ireti community in Ondo state remains the only functional leprasorium in southwest Nigeria but the inmates depend on the stipends they get from Ondo state government for survival. A visit by my organization discovered that the inmates are skilled in on trade or the other but with no or low patronage by the public for fear of being infected. This project aims at training the about 20 inmates on how to use social media to market their goods and services and to make them less dependent on government. They will learn how to use mobile for phones for blogging
Kenya: Radio Taluma Community Journalism Training
We envision community radio journalism training in HomaBay County. The outsourced programs are expected to promote increased participation of communities in the democratic process of the County by providing forums through which communities can ‘freely’ communicate between themselves and their leaders about development issues without interference or fear of intimidation. We intend to setup a studio whereby we shall train 21 community members from 3 pilot districts on community journalism, local content outsourcing and sharing of the content via organized online listeners clubs.
Benin: Ganvié – Living Conditions Exposed
Most people who visit Ganvié are tourists who come to see the Toffin people's unique way of life. The precarious living conditions of the inhabitants, however, never make the news. The project will equip selected secondary school students with the skills to produce a blog on www.rjcebenin.net that will shed light on their living conditions.The student journalists will expose the lack of basic infrastructure, clean drinking water, and sanitation services available. Over the three days of hands-on training,they will learn basic journalistic writing, photography, and social media skills.
South Africa: Lalelani (Listen to Us)
We run a youth empowerment project called Game Changers which aims to provide a group of unemployed youth with skills to help them gain employment. These young people come from a township where having a stable job is a rarity and any job opening in their area receives thousands of applications. This is not a story just true of our young people here in Edendale, Pietermaritzburg but of young people across South Africa. We would like their voices and experiences to be heard through a video blogging program that will initially focus on what it is like to be young and unemployed in South Africa.
Uganda: Ug Perspective
The project will provide a platform where people in the community will freely express their views on key issues affecting them among which include political and public infrastructure. Our project will be a link between the community and their leaders through blogging to enhance development in the area. I will work with volunteers from the community who will be trained on how to gather information which will be posted on the blog.
Mozambique: Our Community, Our Voice – Youth for Change
The project will train and mentor youth in the impoverished “townships” of Chamanculo and Xipamanine, Mozambique to use digital photography, community mapping techniques, videos, digital stories, and social media to document issues around poor governance, corruption, health hazards, property rights and crime prevention. This peri-urban community has a unique history, yet no media outlet of its own, and it inhabitants are virtually voiceless when it comes to non-existent service delivery and decisions taken by government (such a as new road that displaced large numbers of fami
Kenya: Amplify Dandora
A Participatory Video research and education rights project in the Dandora Slum, Nairobi, Kenya. Over five-days, the Eves Day School team, facilitated by mutiny arts and supported by InsightShare, will teach camera skills and story development to the young residents of Dandora. Together, they will produce a short film that promotes understanding in young people about their education rights, as underpinned by the UN Declaration of Human Rights. The film will explore what would be needed to facilitate access to education, and look at stories of hardship and empowerment within Dandora.
Kenya: Share a Story, Save Rhinos Forever!
The rhino, an endangered species in Kenya and the world for the value of its horn and the elephant's ivory tusk. In the savanna, and along the forests, game reserves and national parks the Morans and communities benefits largely from the environment,though under represented online. This project seek to target 2000 of these people directly or indirectly to use mobile phones for photos, text, facebook, twitter,and work with local administration, forest and wildlife services and the global community to raise voices, save rhinos, elephants from extinction and conserve our environment.
Nigeria: Where Is Home?
Islamic Insurgents (Boko Haram) have terrorised thousands of Nigerians in the North. Terrorism in the Northern Nigeria has led to displacement of hundreds of thousands of Nigerians, most of whom are now refugees in other parts of Nigeria. However, the condition of these Nigerians as well as refugees has been overlooked. This project seeks to look into the plight of these Nigerians who're now refugees in their own country. Some select refugees in Ibadan, Western Nigeria, will be trained with some multimedia tools (e.g. phones, sound recorders, etc) to get international attention to their plight
