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The NGO Associação Amigos das Crianças seeks to teach the youth of the neighborhoods of Bandim and Enterramento in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau how to use digital photography and video to document life in their surrounding community. The project will allow youth from the different neighborhoods to interact with and learn about youth in another part of the capital.
The Karen state is cautiously emerging from six decades of civil war, following a ceasefire agreement. To help monitor the situation along the Burmese/Thai border, the Karen Student Network Group will train citizen journalists to use podcasts to help tell the story of these transition period in the region's history.
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.