Proposals Citizen Journalism

Bangladesh: SharedLives

  April 14, 2014

SharedLives is about bringing together underserved youth from different backgrounds, different countries by getting the youth engaged, helping them understand each other and building tolerance between diverse groups through visual communication and storytelling. The pilot project will involve children from underprivileged families in Bangladesh sharing their stories through digital media. Stories from different regions will be exchanged and exhibited internationally, increasing the knowledge of youth on different international social matters occurring around them.

Kenya: Radio Taluma Community Journalism Training

  April 14, 2014

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

  April 14, 2014

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.

Mozambique: Our Community, Our Voice – Youth for Change

  April 14, 2014

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

Bosnia Herzegovina: Media Literacy & Resisting Manipulation

  April 14, 2014

PCRC will approach the problem of skewed media reporting in Bosnia-Herzegovina by launching a youth-oriented, blogging project which will combine investigative journalism with creative methods of storytelling to shed light on the consequences lack of integrity and transparency in the media have on society. The project will aim to educate Bosnian youth ages 16 – 30 about methods they can use to avoid falling victim to skewed reporting and misinformation being disseminated by the media, while at the same time encouraging national dialogue through the provision of an interactive blogging website.

Kenya: Let the Dying be Heard

  April 14, 2014

Patients with life threatening illnesses are often left to wonder why God decided to limit their voices. The doctor says this illness cannot be treated and send them home. Interventions like Chemotherapy, Radiotherapy and Dialysis are expensive and the poor in Kenya cannot afford. Relatives shy away and live them in agony. Their voices are suppressed and there is no one to talk to. Palliative Care providers attend to them, support them and listen to their stories but rarely do they voice them out. These stories are touching and voicing them through stories would direct help their way.

Slovakia: We are Here, Young Roma Citizens!

  April 14, 2014

The project aims to encourage the young people to inform the public society on their own about actual democratic processes that are important to their own communities by using online media. After before being provided training on production of videos, the youth will now learn in the training how and where to publish these topics online in form of videoblogs. Youth online involvement should also increase their peers‘ interest in local democratic processes.

Pakistan: Community Journalist for Raising Community Voice

  April 14, 2014

This project is aim to help community to raise their issues by using social media through their young community leaders emerging as a community journalists, 15 young people as a citizen/community journalist using ICT & social media to create reports on their own community’s social, civic, environment & educational issues. This project aim to promote community involvement to highlight their issues by using non-conventional, accessible & modern alternative media & put pressure on authorities also prioritizes human rights issues in upcoming city government elections.

Cameroon: Rebuilding Lost Years (Rely)

  April 14, 2014

The State Institution in charge of laying-out and developing industrial zones in Cameroon is currently carrying out forceful evictions nationwide. On the 27th of March 2014, 2300 houses were demolished in Douala, leaving about 20.000 people homeless without any State guaranteed protection. Cameroon bears the obligation to respect, protect and fulfill the right to adequate housing, owing to its ratification of the ICESCR, on 27 September 1984. This project is geared at empowering the victims to use social media to build a network, tell their stories and raise pre

Bulgaria: Little Voices

  April 14, 2014

The project will work with children placed in closed institutions in Bulgaria (social care institutions, reformatory facilities). Although reform in them is underway, much remains to be done in terms of functioning/quality of provided services. As important stakeholders they need to be involved in the reforms that will affect them. We will conduct a training in citizen journalism and storytelling to encourage child participants to find their voices and personal stories and socialize them as informed and active citizens in the reform process.