Media creation

Time to talk about work. We have hit the task our second day here, and so far we have been furthering the media aspect of our project.

We had a redaction conference on Saturday. Rafigui is very professional in doing their work, and it is neat to see how they interact in a formal group seetings. It encourages us even more, because we really support what they are doing, especially the aspect interviewing local youth.

We got settled on the task distribution for the writing of the articles for the special 12 page issue of Rafigui, which is planned to be finalized before our departure and published at the beginning of February. I am working on articles on two craftsmen from N’Djaména and on technology and the media. Everybody is writing poems and texts, and we will be editing the bulk of it all together on the 29th.

We also had two nice surprises; before we left, we were hoping to appear on TéléTchad with a friend of Rafigui called Hassane Sila Ben Bakari and to meet with a famous journalist for human rights (Sy Benga Gali) as well as with the fourth most powerful person of the country, the Vice-Secretary of the Assembly, Ms. Loom. To these added up two new small projects, which both aim at promoting a social event that will be held near the Chari River in January. We will be producing a series of posters and a short video clip to invite youth to get involved with Rafigui, the latter which will be played as a previews at the local theater.

The dynamism of the media aspect is setting the scene for the Open Source ICT training starting tomorrow. More on that later...