Dear donors, our colleagues want to share with you with their successes and
progress, the greatest factor in which is your invest. “ICT as a Tool for Young Voices” project
continues to arrange retraining programs for young journalists of the new
generation, which aim at contributing through modern, innovative technologies
to our target group to voice up the challenges and issues, which they confront
with.
The primary aim of the program is to contribute to RA youth engagement in
the development process of their communities, to develop their skills of
highlighting their community issues and searching for solutions for them taking
modern technologies and their journalistic skills as a tool and platform.
The young people want to elucidate their community news, to tell the world
about their community competently with the help of modern technologies, to
arrange events and training, to activate the community, however the lack of
communication skills, the lack of the ability of voicing up community issues on
social platforms make them to keep their thoughts and ideas to themselves, not
to express them and, moreover, to disguise the problem instead of voicing it
up.
Dear donors, your donations were directed to the implementation of the
second phase of the retraining courses for the young journalists of the new
generation. In this phase, our young
experts were given the opportunity to present through non-formal education
methodology the obstacles, which they are ready to overcome and, certainly, to
present the strong aspects of their communities, which they are going to
develop. The target group of the course
again were 14-20 young people, who are active, motivated, initiative and want
to be engaged in the process of strengthening their community.
In the second part of the meeting our beneficiaries were given the
opportunity to get information on significance and modernity of social Medias
in civic journalism and, the most important, to create audience on similar
platforms, where they can share their perspective steps and make the big mass
of the population hear the issues and offers concerning them. Our beneficiaries expressed their keen
interest towards photojournalism, during which they revealed how to attract
readers attention though expressive photo.
After analyzing and researching the future actions of our young people and
existing situations in remote regions we came to the conclusion that in the
future phases of the project implementation visible changes will occur in the
work style of our target group, the best evidence of which is their motivation
and diligence.
We are grateful to you for being with us.
Your donations again were directed to the implementation of these
important steps.
Here is Slava's impressions on his story, and his message to all our
donors.
Hello, I am Slava. I live in Arapi
community. I think that the connection
between me and this project is special because I have been interested in and
inspired by technologies since school years.
I have always thought that those are the best relatives of human
beings. Today and every day I am ready
to use my all skills and abilities for the sake of strengthening our
communities. 
