Proposals Disabilities
Ukraine: You Have a Right to Know
This project proposal aims at facilitating access to the Internet vulnerable groups (people with disabilities and older people ). The project covers the development of the three important areas. First will be trained target group to be set up with people vulnerable, how to use Internet resources and social networks. Second is the work done with local Internet Media of Chernivtsi region, that they have created Accessibility online resources. Third conducting training for social services of Chernivtsi region as in touch with vulnerable groups through social networks.
Uganda: Raising Voices of Disabled Youth
This project is aimed at promoting the voices of disabled youth through online media. The project will train 20 youth between the age of 16-24 years on leadership skills and basic journalism skills. The youth will then take lead in writing their own stories to inspire, and advocate for their rights through social media. Their stories will be published on a blog that themselves will be in charge of updating. The stories will capture various issues at the community level that affects these disabled youth either directly or indirectly.
Cameroon: Project ENVISION – Disability is Not Inability
ENVISION creates solutions to the challenges disabled youths in Cameroon face. To effectively empower disabled youths, working closely with beneficiaries is important. Thus to raise awareness on their challenges, we are working with disabled youths to launch a radio program hosted on the national radio station, CRTV. Furthermore, to change perspectives on how to bring out the best in “disabled” youths and create an environment where they are accepted and assisted to grow, we plan on launching a Video log(Vlog) on our online social media platforms. This will be managed and run by the youth
Russia: Parents of Disabled Children Collective Blog
Being the mother of a disabled child, I understand that is to be in an information and emotional vacuum. When you raise a child with special needs, you need (as well as expert advice or medical help) real stories of real people. This may encourage more than statistics and it also helps to build strong community. The blog will be not only a platform for discussion or forum or social network. I see it as an opportunity to speak, to write The Family Story, to discover creative potential of mothers and fathers of children with disability.
Brazil: Health and Respect – Rights for All
Promote actions to improve the health care system and reduce inequalities in access to these services, providing expert for people with physical disabilities in situations of social vulnerability assistance, ensuring quality service with innovative methods simple and inexpensive. End discrimination, beyond ensuring the enforcement of rights and full exercise, ensuring participation and inclusion in society, equality and opportunity in order to deal with its challenges, improve urban mobility and accessibility for people with disabilities.
Nepal: Blind Tweets to Blind World Cup Cricket
The project aims to prepare a team of blind Twitter users in Nepal. They will contribute to the Twitteratti tweeting about the issues and concerns of totally and partially blind people. They will tweet vigorously during the Blind World Cup being played in South Africa this November.
Uganda: Demystifying Cerebral Palsy through Social Media
The project is about cerebral palsy (CP), which is an impairment which results from brain damage. For example, a person may face difficulties in walking, speaking, and making use of hands. In Uganda,there is negative perceptions of community members who do not belief that youths with CP can learn just like the able bodied ones. This limits the number of Youths with CP who are computer literate with the ability and access to internet. The project aims increasing participation of Youths with CP in the social media through trainings on how to use you tube, face book, twitter to tell life stories
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.
Kenya: Giving Disabled Children in Slums a Voice
We will train parents of children with disabilities in Kibera slums, Nairobi, in citizen media. This will enable them to share their stories and those of their children with disabilities with the world through video, photography, and social media. We will train them to report on Project Play Day, in which children with and without disabilities from Kibera slums, Nairobi work side-by-side on art and play together to promote mutual understanding and inclusion. Giving a voice to disabled children in slum areas will increase social inclusion of disabled children in Kenyan society and beyond
Zimbabwe: Citizenship-less – The Lived Realities of Deaf Youths
The project seeks to create an online documentary on the lives of deaf youths and the challenges they face. The documentary will work as an advocacy tool to educate the public and policy makers on the challenges faced by the Deaf youths in Zimbabwe. The documentary will give a chance to the deaf youths to tell their stories on how they have survived with marginalization and stigma. The Deaf are an invisible population in Zimbabwe and they are voiceless which is exacerbated by the invisible nature of their disability. the documentary will increase public awareness on the live of the Deaf.
