Community Youth Hub Application

About Community Youth Hub

This project seeks to address the absence of knowledge and understanding of freedom of speech of economically backward communities, the existing ecosystem of disinformation and yellow journalism that makes people on the fringe of society to be unaware of their rights. Between April–December 2019, The National Human Rights Commission of India (NHRCI) formulated a Report titled ‘Locating National Human Rights Commission Within The Human Rights Discourse At The Grassroots In Rural India.’ The study concluded that people at the grassroots level lack awareness about human rights, including the fundamental rights elucidated in The Indian Constitution.

 

Given this prevailing situation, the need of the hour is to ensure a sustainable system is created and executed which makes the marginalized people to firstly understand what they do not know and to then empower them so that they can present their side of the story in front of mainstream society and bargain as equal community stakeholders. After thorough planning since the beginning of 2023, we have formulated a feasible plan in accordance with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (U.N. SDGs) of SDG-10: Reduced Inequalities, SDG-11: Sustainable Cities & Communities and SDG-16: Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions.

 

The plan is to form a Community Youth Hub at the grassroots level whereby the content creators will be from the marginalized communities who will voice their rights and uphold democracy. The HUB will act as the central headquarters of the teams in Kolkata, West Bengal, India and Arunachal Pradesh, India. The teams will be virtually connected with each other. There will be a series of awareness workshops with the community youth & adults on their democratic and legal rights, activity-based capacity building workshops on freedom of speech & disinformation and how to utilize technology relevant to digital media so that we can expand our outreach to a greater portion of society.

The Community Youth Hub will be engaged in creating informative visual content namely videos, reels and maintaining web pages on prominent social media sites like - Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube - all of which shall cover different aspects of freedom of speech & human rights as well as tackle misinformation & fake news.

The goal of this project is to see marginalized people become the spokesperson for their problems and other complex situations. The HUB will be a means to an end whereby they can help to bring about positive social impact to fringe communities. These efforts will go a long way towards creating an egalitarian society.

Who Can Join

The youth from our target communities and between the ages of 16-26 years who possess the potential to be members of the Community Youth HUB will be recruited from the following districts of Arunachal Pradesh:

 

  • Changlang
  • Dibang Valley
  • Lower Dibang Valley
  • Lohit
  • Longding
  • Namsai
  • Tirap
  • Upper Siang

Timeline

Duration: 7 months

Start: 21-August-2023 - End: 31-March-2023

1ST WORKSHOP

SEPTEMBER 15TH & 16TH 2023 ( TENTATIVE )

Venue -  AMYAA NGO, Mayu, II, Roing, Arunachal Pradesh 792110

 

2ND WORKSHOP

NOVEMBER 1ST - 6TH  2023 ( TENTATIVE )

Venue -  PRAYASAM NGO , Salt Lake City Kolkata

FINAL WORKSHOP

27TH FEBRUARY 2023 - 6TH FEBRUARY 2024 ( TENTATIVE )

Venue -  AMYAA NGO, Mayu, II, Roing, Arunachal Pradesh 792110

Benefits of this Project

 

The Community Youth Hub will be a means to an end whereby the local youth can foster a change in mindsets among people regarding their neighborhoods, their city and even their state (all of which are considered as communities). With a disciplined approach and dedication towards their work, the youngsters running the HUB will be able to positively influence policy matters at the very top through their advocacy activities and this will ultimately shine the spotlight of development on the same communities which used to be left out of the development agenda until now.

 

The project benefits will be:

  • The population of the marginalized youth freely voicing their opinion via their self-initiated and self-managed media work
  • To get a proper knowledge of Film making
  • Issue Identification
  • Hand holding training of Film making
  • Mobile Editing
  • Social Media Training
  • Content Developing
  • Personality Development Training
  • Leadership Training
  • Widespread knowledge building & creating awareness through online campaigns.

 

At the end of the Training each and every participant will receive a Certificate of Participation.

 

How To Apply 

Kindly fill-up the form given below and apply