Many of the grantees from the Rising Voices community wanted to express their gratitude and best wishes for David Sasaki, as he leaves Rising Voices at the end of this month for a new professional opportunity. Through the use of text, photos, and videos, these messages are proof of the legacy that he leaves behind.
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The Powhatan or Virginia Algonquian language has been extinct for more than two centuries. A new project is attempting to teach a new generation to read, write, and speak this Native American language, and will explore how citizen media can play a large role in this process.
The "Exploring Taboos" project by the Cairo-based organization Nazra for Feminist Studies aims to create an online safe space for Egyptians to have conversations about gender and sexuality issues.
The Indian organization Transparent Chennai is working with local fishing communities in southern Chennai to help them document land use and other space-related issues through participatory map making activities, including geo-tagged photographs made my local youth.
