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As Joan Rasafimaharo recently described on the FOKO project blog, a group of high school students belonging to the United Nations Club put together this video to celebrate the United Nation’s social causes. The film has been entered into the Film Your Issue contest.
Rising Voices aims to extend the benefits and reach of citizen media by connecting online media activists around the world and supporting their best ideas. read more »
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HiperBarrio
HiperBarrio is an outreach collective of Colombian bloggers who have teamed up with local libraries to host new media workshops in the city's working class neighborhoods. 
FOKO
With the tagline, “it takes a village to raise an idea,” FOKO wants to help Madagascar by bringing the world’s attention to Malagasy people. 
TBCS
Think Build Change Salone arms young interns with the tools of citizen media to document their efforts to help rebuild post-civil war Sierra Leone. 
Neighbourhood Diaries
Neighbourhood Diaries is a pilot project which trains children of Kolkata's red light slums how to use creative writing and online media to create and disseminate unrecognized and authentic community narratives in local and global media. 
Nari Jibon
The Nari Jibon center in Dhaka incorporates citizen media into existing English, computer, and Bangla classes for young Bangladeshi women. Rising Voices is a Global Voices project supported by the Knight Foundation and OSI.
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