Lots of great examples on their website at www.headliners.org
Here's one that I thought was exceptionally good:
http://www.headliners.org/storylibrary/stories/2008/openthatdoor.htm
But all the other articles and videos / podcasts are also worth a look,
of course!
Chris
Dear Friends
Seasons Greetings!
media matters is pleased to announce its annual, six-day residential theatre workshop.
We look forward to participation from your organisation / partners.
Workshop title
Theatre for Development as Cultural Action
Dates
February 27 to March 3, 2008
Venue
Environment Education Centre
Survey No. 405, Behind ABC Petrol Pump, Mumbai Pune Highway
Talegaon (near Lonavla), District Pune, Maharashtra.
Objective
By the end of the workshop, the participants will have explored, experimented and practiced facilitating participatory theatre processes.
Methodology
The effort will be towards creating a participant-centred environment for experiential learning. The facilitation will explore a wide range of participatory tools and methods to encourage learning from each other.
Language
While Hindi will be the main language of the workshop, participants will be encouraged to interact/work in their regional languages.
Participation fees
Rs.5,000/- per participant (includes lodging, boarding and workshop resources).
Registration
Please confirm your participation by February 15, 2008 by sending a demand draft favouring "media matters" payable at Ambernath.
Organised & Facilitated by
media matters
In case you need any further information, please feel free to get in touch with me.
Regards and best wishes
Seema Kurup
Mobile: 9881261094
media matters
400 Sai Section, Ambernath 421501, Maharashtra, India
tel. 91-251-2606929; email mmindia.org@gmail.com; url www.mmindia.org
media matters, a registered non-profit trust, works in the area of development communication with a rights-based and participatory approach.
Calling Youth Media Producers!
The Human Rights Watch International Film Festival and Adobe Youth Voices are looking for youth produced works on human rights from around the globe to screen in our newly established YOUTH PRODUCING CHANGE program.Today, neither parents nor government are the primary influencers of children’s behaviours. As much as parents and even those in government believe that they have the ability to effectively influence children’s motivations and actions, there is a far more effective influencing agent at work in the hearts and minds of our children.
The bombarding of thousands of messages across media has instructed children in ethics, moral principals, and priorities often in conflict with those of parents and government.
A Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation report on the exposure to media messages sheds light on the true intensity. The report titled Generation M: Media in the Lives of 8-18 Year-olds, notes “that a typical 8 to 18-year-old is exposed to 8.5 hours of recreational media content daily.”
FULL ARTICLE AT:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0801/S00248.htm
PALHANO, Brazil, 25 January 2008 – Principal Socorro Leni da Silva stands before the group of eager faces which have gathered in her classroom. On this afternoon, however, the room is not filled with her usual primary school pupils, but rather with their mothers. The women are waiting to be recorded for the UNICEF supported radio show, ‘Family Talks’.
Family Talks began in 2002 as an innovative experiment to spread community health messages through the medium of radio. The show features discussions with families on a wide range of topics, including child care, nutrition and breastfeeding.
“Through the radio, we transmit simple and helpful information, such as how to prevent diarrhoeal disease or prepare a rehydration solution,” said journalist Alessandra Oliveira, who moderates the discussions. “We also provide an opportunity for parents to talk about common difficulties and see how to overcome them together, as a group.”
FULL ARTICLE AT:
http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/brazil_42670.html
WANTED: Your Practical Ideas
Shaping the City of Your Dreams
In 2007, for the first time in human history, the majority of people in the world, particularly in developing countries, will be living in urban areas. Life in the city is often associated with more opportunities, better access to employment, education, health and other services. Cities are often called engines of economic growth, contributing disproportionately to the national gross domestic product (GDP). They are also centers of innovation, entrepreneurship and investment. But many cities also have a large part of their population living in slums, without essential services such as water, sanitation and energy, and threatened by environmental hazards, violence and social exclusion. As more and more people move from the countryside to the city, and as city populations grow, there is a growing need for solutions to the issues of urban poverty, environment, and urban infrastructure (housing, roads, water, energy etc.).
What can you do to shape the city of your dreams?
Please answer all three questions below:
1) Think about the city you live in. What are the biggest opportunities and challenges for people living there?
2) What needs to be done to transform your city into the city of your dreams?
3) What could be your role, working together with your peers, in shaping the city of your dreams? Please focus on one or two points you mentioned in question 2).
You may use some of the points below to structure your answer:
If you have been personally involved in concrete initiatives, write specifically about your experience:
Who have you worked with? Who have you helped? What have you accomplished? In what way would you consider this work to be innovative? How have you measured the results of your work?
Looking ahead:
How would you expand or improve the impact of your work? How can other youth replicate your experience?
The quality of children's television in Britain is in freefall, with only a fraction of programmes originating in this country, a leading media expert says.
FULL ARTICLE AT:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/26/ntv126.xml
In December 2007, Radio Mozambique's Child-to-Child programme, together
with Radio ONUCI FM in the Ivory Coast, received the International
Children's Day of Broadcasting (ICDB) Award for Radio Excellence in
recognition of the central role that children have in developing,
producing and presenting programmes for children.
The ICDB, celebrated on 9 December, coincided with Radio Mozambique's
annual meeting to take stock of the child-to-child radio activities
carried out nationwide in 2007, and begin planning activities for 2008.
A total of 25 child radio presenters and producers from the eleven
provinces came together to identify ways in which the programmes could
be improved, and define the content and format of programmes in 2008.
In 2007, UNICEF's partnership with Radio Mozambique and the Community
Radio Forum (FORCOM) supported 540 children and young people to
participate as producers and presenters in the child-to-child local and
national radio programmes which are broadcast in Portuguese and 18 local
languages.
For more information, contact Priscilla Ofori-Amanfo
(poforiamanfo@unicef.org).
iPod peripheral manufacturers are eyeing up a newly emerging market. 31 per cent of children have MP3 players - and half of those are iPods, a report claims.
According to a report on AdAge, the market for child-focused media content for MP3 players across the board - including for the iPod - is exploding, and accessory makers can't be too far behind in considering this emerging market.
FULL ARTICLE AT:
http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=20219
MORE AT:
http://adage.com/article?article_id=123205
SPRINGFIELD - WGBY has been awarded a $106,800 grant for a project that will teach Latino youth essential television, radio and online journalism skills.
The Latino Youth Media Project, funded by the grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, will engage Latino communities within the WGBY region by teaching 10 Latino high school students the skills needed in today's media environment, according to Russell J. Peotter, general manager of WGBY.
"These grants underscore CPB's continuing commitment to strengthening the ties local public television stations have to their communities," said Pat Harrison, CPB president and CEO. "We believe these projects will be models for other communities to emulate and adopt."
FULL ARTICLE AT:
http://www.masslive.com/holyokeplus/republican/index.ssf?/base/news-3/120099043854840.xml&coll=1
22/01/2008
The Rising Voices Web site has released the first in a series of guides on interactive media. An Introduction to Citizen Media offers case studies on how people are using tools such as blogs, podcasts, online video and digital photography to engage in global conversations.
Rising Voices, an initiative that promotes citizen media, said that the goal of the guide is to show that anyone with Internet access can take part in the “emerging global conversation.” The guide’s first edition is available in English, Spanish and Bengali. Future editions will be available in Swahili, Malagasy and Aymara, the organizers said in a news release.
18/01/2008
The Paola Biocca International Reportage Award, which carries a prize of EUR10,000 (around 14,600), will go to a journalist who submits an exemplary photo or video report. Entry deadline: February 28.Winners also will get recognition at the International Journalism Festival, scheduled for April 9 to 13 in
Dear all, UNICEF has a new Youth Section and one of the main priorities is to develop a strategy to support youth communications outreach. There is a short survey for young people and youth groups and we would appreciate if you took the time (it's really short) and fill it in so we can adjust our future projects accordingly. Thanx!!! LINK TO THE SURVEY: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=CuHJCvdvj8m5%2bLcuAzK4Q2%2bPBCAfSmjFRhbiAkKuWUA%3d or http://tinyurl.com/yttefr Chris
· 'Multitasking' youngsters surf net while watching TV
· 63% watch programmes in bed before going to sleep
The flickering of the screen accompanies most of them before they go to school, when they return home, as they consume their evening meal and then - for 63%, far more than read a book each day - in bed at night. The study of five- to 16-year-olds shows that four out of five children now have a TV set in their bedroom.
So ubiquitous has television become that many children now combine it with other activities, including social networking online, flicking their eyes from laptop to TV screen and back again. Even if they are focusing on the television, young people are now reluctant to commit to one programme, with boys in particular often flipping between channels to keep up with two simultaneous shows at once.
FULL ARTICLE AT:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jan/16/television.socialnetworking?gusrc=rss&feed=technology
MORE ABOUT THE REPORT AT:
http://www.childwise.co.uk/monitor.htm
Pineapple Eye's radio shows - and soon Internet TV and radio stations - are bringing together children from all over Thailand
STORY BY AMITHA AMRANAND, PHOTOS BY YINGYONG UN-ANONGRAK
It was two hours before they went on air, and the children and young adults were ordering their lunch and sitting down to discuss stories for their radio shows.
"I'm not sure whether we should do this story. Some people don't want us to talk about it ... it might be too sensitive," said 20-year-old Arisara Sangsiriwiwat.
After a frank discussion and some encouragement from the adults at the table, the story - involving an illegal medicine that had caused harmful side effects to children in a village - made it into the show.
An hour later, the radio presenters arrived with their parents in tow and material for the show in brightly-coloured books. ML Nalinnipa Kasaemsan, a mild-mannered tenth-grader with a marked fondness for extracurricular activities, quietly listened to an adult giving her tips on radio skills. Praewa Tantawin, an articulate 11-year-old who meets adults' eyes with equal measures of sweetness and boldness, talked about a fantasy story she wrote for the afternoon programme, entitled Amnat Pid Pid (The Wrong Kind of Power).
This group of youngsters, with ages ranging from nine to 21, comes together every Saturday afternoon at the Public Relations Department's radio station to broadcast two live radio shows. The reasons behind their desire to be involved with the radio news programme are as diverse as their ages. Although some admit that like any teenagers, having a radio show of one's own is as cool as it gets, they knew, coming into it, that they weren't going to be playing the latest pop tunes or talking about celebrities.
FULL ARTICLE AT:
http://www.bangkokpost.com/Outlook/17Jan2008_out01.php
Ten young journalists take part in writing workshop
The Daily Star
Sunday, January 13, 2008
Tangail --- A two-day training workshop for children journalists concluded here yesterday.
Mass Line Media Center, in collaboration with Unicef, organised the workshop on "Basic and Creative Writing for Children Journalists on Child Rights" at Tangail Press Club.
Ten child journalists took part in the workshop.
Date Posted: 1/13/2008'
SOURCE: http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=85274
Monday, January 14, 2008
*The NSPCC is to set up a new body to protect children who appear on
reality TV after a series of "irresponsible" parenting programmes. *
The charity will bring together experts to advise producers on how to
make sure children are safe when making shows.
It comes after a Channel 4 series included advice to parents to ignore a
baby's cries and children on a BBC show were left with inexperienced
teenagers.
The NSPCC said it feared the rise in reality parenting TV was "harmful".
The society highlighted the recent Channel 4 series Bringing Up Baby,
which used child rearing methods from the 50s, 60s, and 70s advocated by
three mentors.
During the programme, which aired last year, one of the mentors advised
parents to ignore the cries of their infant and resist cuddling them.
The programme generated 752 complaints from viewers but was later
cleared of wrongdoing by media watchdog Ofcom.
FULL ARTICLE AT:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7186343.stm
Fred Wilson wrote the other day about what observing his kids’ media habits tells him about the future of media — I’ve has a similar impulse to try to draw insights from observing real young people’s media habits. But is this the best way to predict the future of media?
When I was a kid, I:
Never listened to NPR
None of these are true anymore. Most striking is I don’t watch any TV. And I spend half my day communicating in text (mostly email). When I was a teenager in the late 80s, just prior to the dawn of the Web era, I’m sure newspaper publishers we’re bemoaning that kids these days don’t read newspapers.
Yet I became a newspaper reader…except that I don’t read newspapers in print…except for my local paper that arrives on my doorstep.
FULL ARTICLE AT http://www.dmwmedia.com/news/2008/01/09/analysis:-do-youth-media-habits-predict-future-media%3F
2007
"Over the past decade, publishers across the world have been concerned about declining rates of newspaper readership among young people. Among the newspaper community - national newspaper associations, newspaper-in-education committees, and academics - there is much debate about why this is happening and how to address the issue. Are young people interested in news and information? How does technology affect their daily media consumption? What rituals do they associate with newspaper readership?"
Government proposals to ensure every family with five- to 19-year-old learners has access to IT have been published.
Ministers want to make sure all families in England have access to technology such as the internet so children and young people can study and access educational resources at home.
The initiative is known as Home Access, and schools minister Jim Knight has set up a Home Access taskforce including representatives from the IT industry, education, and the third sector.
FULL ARTICLE AT
http://www.cypnow.co.uk/bulletins/Daily-Bulletin/news/775810/?DCMP=EMC-DailyBulletin
By Karen Cirillo
NEW YORK, USA, 9 January 2008 – After five years of running workshops in Eastern and Central Europe, UNICEF expanded the reach of the ‘OneminutesJr’ youth filmmaking project to other regions during 2007.
Operated in partnership with the One Minutes Foundation and the European Cultural Foundation, the project organizes five-day film workshops in which each participant learns camera skills, story development and production techniques.
Over the past year, more than 275 young people from more than 15 countries produced their own one-minute films through OneminutesJr workshops conducted by UNICEF. Four of the workshops used the 18th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) as their theme. Participants were asked to pick one article from the CRC and visualize it in an artistic way.
The resulting films – which focused on such topics as child neglect, the right to education, disability rights, child labour and the right to play – were all posted on the 'CRC@18' website. In addition, a selection of the short films was provided to broadcasters around the world.
FULL ARTICLE AND VIDEOS AT
http://www.unicef.org/videoaudio/video_42413.html
The U.S. Fund for United Nation's Children Fund (UNICEF) launched its national essay contest for students interested in participating in the Junior 8 (J8) summit, a youth event convening this year in Japan and linked to the annual Group of 8 (G8) Summit.
Now in its fourth year, the program allows young people the opportunity to become involved in the topics that concern G8 countries and the broader global community. Eligible participants ranging in age from 13 to 17 years should form teams of four to compete in the contest.
The winning team is given the opportunity to represent the United States at the J8 summit, to take place in July in Hokkaido, Japan. To participate, teams must write a 500 word essay and submit either a written declaration or a multi-media project. The due date is March 1, and the winners will be announced no later than March 31.
FULL ARTICLE AT: http://www.reporter-times.com/?module=displaystory&story_id=95068&format=html
For more information, and to download an application, go to www.unicefusa.org/youthaction
The 101.5 Koch FM is a private radio station owned and run by the youth of Korogocho slum in Nairobi. The station is a product of Miss Koch Initiative, a project started in 2001 to respond to rising cases of sexual abuse in the slum. The radio station aims to increase security in the settlement, create awareness of women abuse as well as provide entertainment.
101.5 Koch FM broadcasts daily
from 6am to 10 pm daily. It plays reggae and local music and well as local news. "Our news are specifically packaged for people living in the ghetto. What is news to us may not necessarily be news in the mainstream media," says Wandei. There are also programmes for women run by a local female reporter. All programmes aim to be entertaining and educational.
The station has one technician, a graduate of Kenya Polytechnic, who grew up in the slum. Koch FM managing editor, Otieno Wandei, says they hope to attract commercials to be able to run the station.
The station broadcasts in Kiswahili and English in Korogocho and the surrounding areas. The radio station is supported by 25 men and 35 women aged between 18 and 28 and has nine male and female presenters who all grew up in the slum and who work on a voluntary basis. Most of the equipment was acquired through donations from organisations and individuals. The local community has also supported the radio stations by donating seats, tables, utensils and books.
Youth.
The station was launched on June 24 2006 by the Miss Koch Initiative. This organisation aims to create a society that respects and promotes wholesome development of its male and female members. It seeks to provide a platform for Korogocho youth, particularly girls, to participate in the socio-economic and political matters.
Some of the initiative’s achievements are establishing an education fund for girls and a community resource centre. The initiative won the Mayor’s 2004 Award, while the winner of the Miss Koch 2003 was declared the Eve Young Woman of Year in 2004.
Institute of Policy Analysis, Norwegian Church Aid, Pamoja Trust.
The Standard website on Nov 6 2006.
Author
Adele Mostert and Tammy Baldwin
Summary
Bua Fela is a tool for broadcasters who create radio for children, with
children. It offers procedures based on the experiences gained by ABC
Ulwazi during the Bernard van Leer Foundation funded "Speak Free"
project. The Speak Free project was designed to create a broadcasting
environment that allowed children to express themselves through
community radio, share their experiences, tell the community what they
are thinking and to learn from each other.
According to the authors, Bua Fela offers the following:
* techniques for involving children in media production;
* sound advice for starting youth programmes at your Community Radio
station;
* tips on how to get children talking;
* skills to give children in your community a voice of their own, to
enable them to create their own media and develop their own stories;
* ways of reporting on, and ethically representing, children in the
media;
* guidance for children to work with other children as a
broadcasting team;
* case studies from the 'Speak Free' project as practical examples.
The guide has sections that can be photocopied and used directly. It
also has checklists to help with the preparation and implementation and
workshop plans to adapt.
Languages
English
Number of Pages
88
PDF Link
http://www.abculwazi.org.za/files/Bua_Fela_Book.pdf
Publisher
Zann Hoad Sharp Sharp Media <http://www.comminit.com/en/node/5486>
Publication Date
2006
Contact
*Tammy Oppenheim*
tammy@abculwazi.org.za <mailto:tammy@abculwazi.org.za>
Sharp Sharp Media
48 Rothesay Avenue
Craighall Park
2196
Johannesburg
South Africa
Teens Offer Perspectives on Things That Matter Most in Their Own Lives
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- L.A. Youth will celebrate an important
milestone in January 2008 -- turning twenty years old. The not-for-profit
organization was founded in 1988 by former teacher and community organizer,
Donna Myrow, after a U.S. Supreme Court decision (Hazelwood) empowered campus
administrators to control the content of school newspapers. Many high school
journalism programs and newspapers were devastated by the decision. L.A.
Youth filled the void with a program that fosters critical thinking, writing
skills, literacy, civic education. From its modest beginnings with only a
handful of teens and limited funding, L.A. Youth has since become the largest
independent newspaper by and about teens in the USA.
Over the past 20 years, L.A. Youth has provided a forum for thousands of
teens -- addressing controversial issues such as sexuality, racism, drug abuse
and violence -- to the more "ordinary" topics of finding a job, dating,
fashion, and music trends. "The youth-driven content has generated mostly
very positive and even touching feedback from our readers," Myrow said,
"Although there have been occasional threats made by individuals who don't
like what we are doing, we will continue to encourage the principles of the
First Amendment so that young people can have their voice heard."
FULL ARTICLE AT
http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS172717+08-Jan-2008+PRN20080108
At the recent Third Ibero American Children’s Television Festival, “Prix Jeunesse”, in Santiago de Chile, Colombia won the prize for the “best new ideas” category with its project “One Minute for my Rights”, developed by UNICEF in association with RCN Television.
The festival, considered one of the most important in the children’s television market, is the Latin American version of the Prix Jeunesse International Festival taking place every two years in Munich, Germany, which since 1964 has been awarding excellence in television production and contents for children and adolescents.
Children aged 8 to 14 from four regions of Colombia – including children from impoverished parts of the city of Bogotá wrote, produced and filmed a total of 50 film-minutes, of which the RCN network currently is broadcasting 27. The film-minutes depict the reality in which the project participants live, and how their rights are promoted, discussed or violated.
UNICEF sponsored this initiative in partnership with RCN Television, to offer an opportunity for children and adolescents living in a great variety of contexts, often unknown to the majority of Colombians, to express themselves.
“If only one of the participating boys or girls stays out of the conflict, if he or she is respected in his or her integrity, if he or she is not forced to work – that’s the most valuable result of “A Minute for my Rights”. Furthermore, what we are looking for is to have an impact on Colombian society, so all the participants in this project deserve very sincere congratulations,” said Paul Martin, UNICEF Representative for Colombia.
The participants were able to see their reality from a rights-perspective and to learn, while having fun, about how to turn their ideas into video productions. RCN joined the initiative, supporting its implementation and broadcasting the videos in its “Bicho” (“Bugs”) slot as well as other programming spaces. Citurna Ltda. is the partner that coordinated the creation and production, with technical support from UNICEF.
In Chile, more than a hundred people attended the screening of the 55 television and film productions in competition at the Third Ibero American Children’s Television Festival, Prix Jeunesse 2007. More than twenty foreign TV experts travelled to Chile to deliberate and exchange ideas on programming for children and youth, and after two days of debates the winners were announced.
The awards ceremony was led by the president of the National Television Council, Jorge Navarrete MartÃnez, TVN Executive Director Daniel Fernández, FEDEPADRE President Alfonso Canales and Prix Jeunesse International Director Maya Goetz.
Other winners of the Ibero American Prix Jeunesse 2007:
· “Mininho Maluquinho” from Brazil, category 6 to 11 years, Fiction.
· “El Show de las Once” (“The Eleven O’clock Show”) from Mexico, category 12 to 15 years, Fiction.
· “Tonky” a Brazil-Uruguay co-production, category Up to 6 years, Fiction.
For further information
Sara Franky, sfranky@unicef.org, UNICEF Colombia
*Social Day 2008 - **SHL is looking for non profit organizations, which
are going to use part of the donations for projects in South-East
Europe. Considering the nature of the projects it is important for us,
that potential partners focus on direct support of children and/or young
people as well as on the following expressed criteria.*
*1. Introduction of the initiators *
/Schüler Helfen Leben e.V./ Foundation Schüler Helfen Leben/
Schüler Helfen Leben (SHL) is a charitable organization from Germany,
which supports youth projects in South-East Europe for peace,
reconciliation and freedom in the whole region. Our current balance:
more than 15 million Euros donated and more than a hundred projects in
Croatia, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Serbia, Macedonia, Kosovo and Romania. SHL
is an independent initiative, which provides quick and non-bureaucratic
help by young people to young people. SHL wants to promote the values of
tolerance, integration, democracy, participation and peace and to
empower young people to a bigger social and economic autonomy.
/Action: Social Day/
Since 1998 SHL calls on pupils throughout Germany to participate in the
Social Day. The idea of this day is simple: For one day pupils will not
go to school but work in a bakery, in their neighborhood, for relatives
or friends and they will donate their earnings to SHL. In order not to
limit the participation of these young people to the one day-action the
selection of projects will be partly put in their hands.
*2. Aims of the call*
SHL is looking for non profit organizations, which are going to use part
of the donations for project implementation in South-East Europe.
Considering the nature of the project it is important to us, that the
partner focuses on direct support of children and/ or young people and
is according to the following expressed criteria.
SHL sees the ongoing need and necessity to get involved with young
people in South-East Europe. Complexes like Nationalism (unexplained
nation-building, annexation and separation, propaganda), migration
(brain-drain, refugees and their returning) and religion
(inter-confessional coexistence) still play a key role in connection
with the inner and external European integration process. Nonetheless
new conflict potential in the region will be created by new borders of
the EU and may contribute to a enduring relative fragility of South-East
Europe.
SHL`s special contact to young people demonstrates clearly, that there
still is a big demand for support: Young people are discriminated and
suffer the most from the current and continuing structures. About three
quarters of children and youths are considered as poor by the UNDP - not
only financially but also concerning their educational and employment
possibilities. More than half of the young population have never been
abroad and as a result do not even know their neighbouring countries
that way. Therefore we want to intensify our work in the region as a
whole and complement it with new projects.
We are looking for projects, which pursue an inter-ethnic approach and
strengthen local organisations (capacity building). SHL considers a
special need for more intensive youth work in particular in rural areas
of the region. The character as a role model of a selected project will
at least be assured by clearly visible results.
*3. Target group*
The project should address children, youth and/or students.
*4. Region*
Following countries in South-East Europe are involved: Albania,
Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia and
UNMIK Kosovo.
*5. General requirements*
The project aims to provide youth access to learning, education or care
for all young people, regardless of gender, faith, nationality, economic
situation and social group membership. The projects should:
* 1. impart skills and knowledge to young people, so they can become
politically mature, critical-thinking citizens of a democratic
state; or
* 2. show youths ways to become economic independent; or
* 3. encourage and enable youths to show initiative; or
* 4. to open up new perspectives for volunteering; or
* 5. to promote reconciliation between the ethnic groups in the
region that are estranged since the war with the aim to develop a
lasting peace; or
* 6. contain political-relevant campaigns or cultural activities to
strengthen civil society.
The basis for a successful implementation of projects is in the view of
SHL a *professional organization* with a *responsible management*, which
is able to set goals and to achieve their aims. The *proper and
transparent use* of the employed means is a *basic precondition*.
Projects shall be adapted to the specific regional needs. *Young people*
should play an *active* role in the project. Therefore they shall take
active part in the planning and implementation of the project. We
promote higher and lower educated strata of the population.
SHL does not only want to promote the development of the region of
*South-East Europe* through its work, but also impart knowledge of their
societies and cultures to *Germany*. This will be done through regular
information about the SHL funded projects to the German public.
*6. Selection process*
There will be a three-level selection procedure for projects in
South-East Europe:
6.1. Pre-selection
All short applications that arrive at SHL before the deadline (see 9.)
will be checked by an expert board. Transmittal of proposals is done
exclusively online or via e-mail. Selected projects will receive a
message with the offer to submit long applications.
6.2. Qualifying process
All completed long applications will be checked. Additionally to the
information provided in the short applications, we will put more
importance to the capacities of the applying organisation in the long
application. We ask the applicant to name a contact person for answering
questions concerning the project. SHL will make a second pre-selection
of all the received applications before the School Pupil Jury will take
the final choice.
6.3. Pupils choice
The projects which were short-listed will be introduced to the pupils
taking part in the Social Day. They will make the final decision about
the projects. The partner organization is responsible for making sure
that the participants of the Social Day are informed about the progress
of the project during the entire promotion-phase. The number of the
projects which are going to be supported by SHL and their amount depends
from the results of the Social Day. Therefore a definite funding
contract can only be made after the final result.
*7. Financial and legal conditions*
7.1 General requirements
The funds applied for should range between 25,000 € and 200,000 €. The
activities, as well as materials and personal costs, are supported, as
long as they are necessary for transfer to the project country. SHL
especially welcomes projects which are co-financed by other sponsors.
The financial plan should be drawn up in Euros. The cost projection must
be balanced and detailed enough, that the project itself is
recognizable, comprehensible and testable.
7.2 Duration of support
The maximum duration for a project is 3 years. The project shall
commence between September and December 2008.
7.3 Legitimacy of the applicant
All non-profit organizations, whose work corresponds to the aims of SHL
have the right to apply.
7.4 Contract and financing
If the decision about financing is positive, the applicant will get a
co-operation contract explicitly stating all the rights and obligations
in collaboration with SHL. The subsequent payment agreement will usually
provide a quarterly based payment structure.
7.5 Reports
The applicant has to submit regularly interim reports on the project
implementation. The final report has to be submitted at the end of the
funding period. More detailed matters are regulated in the cooperation
contract.
*8. German volunteers*
In order to strengthen the link between projects abroad and pupils
active in Germany, SHL sends young German volunteers to several of its
international projects. We encourage the projects to generate positions
for these volunteers if useful and possible.
*9. Documents for the short application*
Applications have to be drawn up on the basis of the proposal documents
in German or English.
The *deadline* for the short applications is *Monday, 14^th January
2008*. If applicable you will receive an answer with the offer to submit
a long application until beginning of February 2008. You will have
another month for the long application. We will inform you about the
exact terms for the long application in the further course of the process.
*Please apply using our online application form
<http://78.46.39.5/db_verwaltung/?lang=en>.
*
*SOURCE:
http://www.schueler-helfen-leben.de/newsite/news/call-for-proposals/call-for-proposals-2008.html
*
ScienceDaily (Dec. 27, 2007) --- Although hundreds of studies link media
violence to aggression in children and adolescents, most public policy
attempts to reduce children's media violence exposure in the U.S. have
failed. Efforts to restrict children's access to violent video games
have been struck down by the courts as infringing on children's First
Amendment rights.
FULL ARTICLE AT
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071221134342.htm
*NEW YORK, USA, 3 January 2008 -- *Even amidst the security challenges
facing children in Iraq every day, a group of young people there have
found a way to create a poignant short film about life in Baghdad.
UNICEF and Spacetoon -- the regional Middle Eastern children's
television network -- gathered a group of Sunni and Shia'a children from
the Iraqi capital to create the film in conjunction with the
International Children's Day of Broadcasting.
The children discussed various ideas for stories and voted on the one
they wished to produce. The selected story line, based on one
participant's real experience, focuses on a boy in Iraq who loses his
friend when the friend's family is driven away by conflict.
FULL ARTICLE AT
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/EGUA-7AHSRL?OpenDocument
*By Blue Chevigny *
KIBERA, Kenya, 2 January 2008 -- At least 300 people have died in
conflict that erupted in the wake of last week's disputed election in
Kenya. Much of the unrest has centred around Kibera, a slum outside of
Nairobi.
Fatuma Roba, a 22-year-old Voices of Youth and UNICEF Radio Digital
Diarist lives in Kibera. She spoke with UNICEF Radio about what she has
seen over the last several days and her reaction to it.
"The centre of the violence [in Nairobi], in my opinion, is where I
live. And it's affecting everything," she said from her home.
Fatuma says nothing in her community is running normally. Conflict has
been affecting everything from electricity and water to food supplies.
Some people in the community have been forced to leave their homes as
they fear for their lives.
"Our lives are at a standstill," she says. "It's very tense and I'm scared."
FULL ARTICLE AND FREE AUDIO AT
http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/kenya_42314.html
LOS ANGELES — Forget Second Life. The real virtual world gold rush centers on the grammar-school set.
Trying to duplicate the success of blockbuster Web sites like Club Penguin and Webkinz, children’s entertainment companies are greatly accelerating efforts to build virtual worlds for children. Media conglomerates in particular think these sites — part online role-playing game and part social scene — can deliver quick growth, help keep movie franchises alive and instill brand loyalty in a generation of new customers.
Second Life and other virtual worlds for grown-ups have enjoyed intense media attention in the last year but fallen far short of breathless expectations. The children’s versions are proving much more popular, to the dismay of some parents and child advocacy groups. Now the likes of the Walt Disney Company, which owns Club Penguin, are working at warp speed to pump out sister sites.
“Get ready for total inundation,” said Debra Aho Williamson, an analyst at the research firm eMarketer, who estimates that 20 million children will be members of a virtual world by 2011, up from 8.2 million today.
FULL ARTICLE AT
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/31/business/31virtual.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
