Citizen Re-integration and IT in Nairobi Kenya and DRC

Citizen Re-integration and IT in Nairobi Kenya and DRC

Eway Foundation/MIT Student Volunteer Project

Objectives

1. Develop innovative solutions for internet and IT communication between project partners in the US and in Kenya.

2. Create a solution to barrier preventing the Eway/Dolphin partnership from taking the next steps.

3. Create a Service Learning opportunity for Eway/Dolphin participants and MIT students.

4. Provide MIT students an opportunity to volunteer for 1-3 months.

Students will volunteer for Winter 2011-2012 (Summer 2012 possible)

Purpose of Project Partnership

Design and build a "Behavioral Modification" based citizen re-integration program aimed at youth in Nairobi Kenya, and the DRC.

Ensure the proper implementation of an "Ethical Citizen Media" project documenting the projects in Nairobi and the DRC.

Pre-Questions

1) What is a specific challenge facing your organization or community that you need to solve in order to be able to move forward with your vision?

A. The primary challenge is coordinating time to communicate and implement this component of our partnership with the Dolphin Anti-Rape Organization. A clear program design, along with an internet based portal for sharing ideas and program activities, will improve the project.

2) What kind of expertise is needed to help you solve this challenge? 3) In what ways might a student, or team of students, be able to help?

A. A knowledgeable IT team will assist our project directors with the expertise, monitoring, and co-management of technical and organizational tasks.

The outcome of the project will be beneficial to both MIT, and Eway Foundation/Dolphin project partnership.

Administrative roles will be filled once MIT students complete their commitment to the project. Eway program participants will receive mentoring and training from student volunteers.

(August - November) is when students will be looking for winter opportunities.

The MIT volunteers will be able to work from the comfort of their dorm rooms or campus. The project is internet based.

Although our long term objective is to create a platform similar to popular music and film download sites (FREE itunes) , to share and exchange culture, our immediate goals are to create a foundation conducive for proper communication and education-program activities, given the distance between the two groups.

Web 2.0 will allow us to connect and communicate with our partners, volunteers, and participants. We would like to create the most convenient way to share video (i.e. Skype, Web-conferences, and Webinars), and an overall integration of multiple communication and information sharing, including Twitter and Facebook. Our expected outcome is to have a proper way to communicate and share all aspects of the program, thus volunteers will assist in defining how the communication system will operate to ensure programs objectives.

Eway Foundation is the parent company of Eway Entertainment Group. Eway Entertainment Group was born in 2010 as a Limited Liability Company based in Los Angeles California. Our mission is to create a universal culture of peace through an entertainment structure. The Eway Foundation was established to further the goal of promoting a universal culture of peace through the exploration of music, film, and the Arts & Humanities.

For more information on the Eway Foundation, please visit:
www.ewayentertainment.com

For information about the Dolphin Anti-rape and AIDS Control Outreach Organization:
http://dolphinanti-rape.org/

Partnership: The Dolphin Anti rape and AIDS Control Outreach Organization, based in Nairobi Kenya, is a registered Non Governmental Organization, delivering life-saving sexual violence prevention education. Our first corresponding project is the “Anti-Grab and Counter Technology Rapid Response” initiative. More than 3,000 individuals have reported using the skills taught by Dolphin to stop a potential rape and remain safe.

This first phase of the partnership's other trainings have been taking place since August 2011. Our second wave of program participants will arrive in November at the City of Joy In Bukavu.

We have also identified a group of male youth in Bukavu, who are awaiting our intervention to reintroduce them into mainstream society.

The project aims to:

Change male youth negative behaviors, norms and attitudes towards women, girls, and their communities; and be part of the solution, not the problem.