Barbadian children learn how to produce One minute for my Rights videos
Over the last two weeks twenty Barbadian children ages 8 through 15 years joined a growing number of children throughout the world who are producing one minute for my rights videos. Under the guidance of Nicolas King ? who was trained in the UNICEF-supported One minute for My Rights Training of Trainers workshop in Suriname in May? these children have decided to focus on HIV/AIDS and drugs as the themes for their videos which are expected to be completed early in the month of October.
In addition to learning the technical skills of video production, the children, who are mainly from Nelson Street and Poinside in the city of Bridgetown, have been learning various life skills which will enable them to deal with social issues such as how to protect themselves from contracting HIV/AIDS. They are also being taught drama by Aaron Blackman one of the resource persons for the Youth Development Programme.
One of the participants, 12 year old Rashid Blackman, a student at the Grantley Adams Memorial Secondary school, thought the programme was ?very good,? and ?mostly enjoys working the camera.?
The video production workshops are being implemented by the Youth Development Programme of the Ministry of Education Youth Affairs and Sports, with some support from the UNICEF Office for Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean. Barbados is the first country in the Eastern Caribbean region to begin implementing the One minute for My Rights workshops with young people.
Young People's Media Network - Coordinator
c/o ECMC (European Centre for Media Competence)
Bergstr. 8 / 11th floor
D-45770 Marl - Germany
Email: cschuepp@unicef.org
URL: www.unicef.org/magic
Mailing list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/youthful-media
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