· March, 2014

Proposals Digital Video from March, 2014

Rwanda: Rise Change Project

  March 20, 2014

The project is concerning the awareness and importance of social network in rural area, where community are facing the problem of accessing information related to human need. It is all about the role and how to use the social media in terms of creating friendship, exploring opportunities like scholarship, green card ,marketing, communication, researching and informing content strategy through Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google+, YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn and all valid platforms that i will use as part of my content strategy and through complain, workshop and seminers.

Indonesia: “Our Day Our Lives” Documentary Film of Balinese Young People

  March 20, 2014

This is a filmmaking project to capture Balinese young people (high school students) daily lives – how they use their time, what they like doing, where they hang out, and their interconnection with communities. The documentary film is to reflect on the future of Bali young generation. Parents, teachers, policy makers and Bali indigenous community group can learn from the movie to better facilitate ideas, creativity and freedom of expression of young people. These students will be the main actors, movie makers, and also directors of this collective-made documentary film.

Uganda: Rural Women and Youth Capacity Building project

  March 19, 2014

The Project aims at building the capacity of a Group of Women of Nambi Sseppuuya Community Resource Centre, in rural Eastern Uganda by improving their accessibility to relevant and up to date information. The group will be exposed to modern methods of individual and community development. The project will build internet connectivity using the 40 computers currently available in the Resource Centre's ICT Lab., organize sensitization workshops, seminars and visits to vocational institutions. This will enable them to perfect their handcraft work, farming, and other activities they have started.

Kenya: The Unheard

  March 18, 2014

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.

Sri Lanka: Rising Girls – Community Media for Women Empowerment

  March 18, 2014

Girls in Sri Lanka are challenged with access to education, health and participation in society due to lack of transportation. The project is training girls in ICT, digital media and soccer skills providing computer, digital camera internet access, e learning material and trained to create and share digital media stories shared on a facebook group about their communities . The project will form “Dumbara Media” a Community Media Unit. This project need funding to conduct community media training for 30 girls and 10 boys.

Bhutan: Giving 90 Youths an Opportunity for Employment through Multimedia Skill Development

  March 18, 2014

Youth Media Center will provide a platform for disadvantaged youths to discover their talents, develop their skills by training them in the field of multimedia and ultimately securing their life by creating opportunities for employment. Through our programs we will inject and instill the sense of professionalism in their work so that they find a place to market their talent. Helping the youth to become a responsible and productive citizen will be our continuous effort.

India: Unlocking Potentials of Children Living in Abject

  March 18, 2014

Community projects of ‘Suri Natun Juger Pratyasha’ focuses on empowerment of children (and mothers) through awareness creation, bringing them under the network of education through non-formal education. In addition, sporadic (ad hoc) interventions of functional literacy/life skills education are also components of projects. All such initiatives strive to empower children (and mothers equally,) bring them at forefront and groomed suitably for managing their life and responsibilities successful.

Kenya: The Speak OUT!!! Project

  March 15, 2014

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