Digital storytelling for resilience
Challenge
The 2 million internally displaced people living in Nigeria’s northeast states of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe are increasingly affected by misinformation, disinformation and hate speech. They, like other people forced to flee, experience a lack of agency in the narratives told about them.
Solution
Equipping young internally displaced Nigerians with digital storytelling skills, specifically in photography and videography, to boost their media literacy, empower them to tell their own stories, and enhance social connections, improving their mental health and wellbeing.
Impact
30 young people with lived experience of displacement receive digital storytelling skill-building. Through a training-of-trainers model, these skills are cascaded to up to 150 people within one year, boosting resilience and social cohesion across these communities.
Project impact
Other information
Read more about this initiative, and how it changed the lives of participants, in our webstory.