Proposals Zimbabwe from March, 2014
Zimbabwe: Tsamba, Incwadi
(Tsamba is Shona a word meaning letter or mail, and incwadi is a Ndebele word also meaning letter )The project involves developing a (website) blog with the name tsamba incwadi We will also train a group of young adults from marginalised communities in Zimbabwe who will use the blog as citizen journalists to write their (Tsamba/ Incwadi) blog telling the the world about their communities. The blog will have a twitter handle and Facebook page.
Zimbabwe: Widows’ Voice Campaign
The Widows’ Voice Campaign is a project by Widows Empowerment Trust (a registered organization based in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe). This project seeks to use social media to amplify the voices of the widows who are marginalized and excluded in Zimbabwe. Through training of key focal persons who are widows in using smartphones, taking pictures and videos, citizen journalism, storytelling and using social media; the project will empower the widows to tell their story and share it with the world. It will further help reduce stigma, discrimination, exclusion and abuse of widows in rural Matabeleland.
Zimbabwe: Amplifying Child Brides’ Voices Through Digital Stories
The project empowers child brides to use digital media platforms to change attitudes that perpetuate the practice of child marriage and educates and mobilises parents and community members to end child marriage. It avails ICTs and makes them accessible to child brides; raises the silenced and forgotten voices of child brides and vulnerable girls; promotes and facilitates child brides’ voices, views, and opinions in the public domain and accurately document child brides’ rights abuse while building a body of knowledge for advocacy purposes to influence policy and legislative change.
Zimbabwe: Giving the Tshwao a Voice
The Tshwao people of Zimbabwe, numbering about 2500 people, currently living lives of poverty in the outer edges of western Zimbabwe in Tsholotsho and Plumtree are slowly rising up and claiming their space in development issues. After being moved from the then Wankie Game Reserve in 1928 (Now Hwange National Park) during the colonial era, have remained unnoticed and thus are living as subjects to other tribes. The project seeks to tell the Tshwao story through photo books story telling, video and through social network. The aim is to connect with others to share ideas, skills and expirience
Zimbabwe: Amplifying Marginalised Farm Communities Voices
The project seeks to train on the use new media (Whatsapp and Facebook) to raise the voices of the Zimbabwean farm communities who have been largely marginalised after the country's government embarked on a land reform exercise so that their plight and views get to policy makers. We will use a mainstream media web platform to stir debate and discussion around rights to communal land and labour rights among other issues. Community based information groups (CBIG) are in existence and what they need most now is capacity building through intensive training.
Zimbabwe: Change the World: Training for Citizen Journalists
l am proposing to conduct a training programme targeting citizen journalists. The training helps to lay the foundation for civil society advocates to become citizen journalists. It brings together journalism skills and advocacy goals to help citizen journalists share their perspectives and experience with decision makers and wider audiences to influence the discourse around community and related developmental issues. We have developed a training manual called change the world.
