Month: September 2011

Sponsored Media training opportunity.

Are you involved in or wish to make use of media to disseminate information? Would you wish to go beyond public awareness to stimulating social change? Are you a youth residing in the slums of Nairobi and wish to join other social change agents in empowering the urban poor? Are you a holder of KCSE certificate? And, are you passionate about social change? If your answer is yes to the above questions, then this advert is meant for you. If your answer is no to the above questions, then forward it to those who might be interested.

As you are aware, communication approaches have been variously used for promoting democratic governance, peace-building, immunization, prevention of diarrheal dehydration and HIV/AIDS, female literacy, among others. These have been in the form of mass media campaigns, radio programmes, posters, street plays and localized outreach through communities and NGOs. Many communication initiatives have succeeded in enhancing public awareness, but have failed in going beyond awareness, to stimulate positive changes in attitudes and practices toward creating lasting social change. Communication, to impact on sustainable behavior change among individuals and groups on a large scale, needs to be strategic, participatory, based on evidence from research and results-oriented.

To stimulate social change using strategic communication more effectively, Pambazuko Mashinani through its media department, here in requests for applications from the youth within the slums of Nairobi to benefit from its sponsorship as trainees on communication for social change advocacy approaches that includes: newspaper production, media engagement techniques, edutainment, blogging, video production and crowd-sourcing technology. You will cater for your own transportation costs to Kariobangi North Estate in Nairobi. The hands-on trainings shall take place at Pambazuko Mashinani Kariobangi offices on a part-time basis in order to allow the trainees to continue with their daily livelihood activities. The 3 month training course shall begin in the month of October 2011. Successful graduands will be awarded with certificates.

Are you interested? Then email your personal essay that will help us become acquainted with you as a person, apart from your community service history, and personal demographic data, it will also demonstrate your ability to organize your thoughts and express yourself. Please provide a brief essay (750 to 1,000 words) telling us why you’re applying, what you hope to learn from Pambazuko Mashinani media program, your referees & their contacts, and how you will apply this to your community and plan to work with Pambazuko Mashinani in realizing its mission of building the information power, & capacity of urban poor people to connect and engage as participative, change-driving, healthy and dignified citizens in Kenya, at the end of the sponsorship period.

You need NOT to have engaged with media for you to apply. Applications together with your day time phone contacts should be emailed to us through info@pambazukomashinani.org.

Only applications received by 4pm on 22nd September 2011 will be considered. Consider yourself unsuccessful if you don’t hear from us by 30th September 2011.No phone calls please.

For more information please visit http://www.pambazukomashinani.org or http://www.facebook.com/pambazukomashinani