5 steps to showing a video in rural communities
As you may know, our four-day workshops are full-day intensive trainings on the creation and dissemination of educational videos. During those four days, we cover everything from turning on a camera to editing a video to displaying a video on a projector in a remote community without electricity.
How illuminAid’s Three-part Intervention Makes a Difference
By focusing on the three key aspects of development - education, resources, and empowerment, IlluminAid is driving significant changes in impoverished communities worldwide.
What’s in the illuminAid kit?
Discover how illuminAid is revolutionizing education in the world's most impoverished regions with our innovative video technology kits, powering positive social evolution through the barriers of electricity, literacy, geography, and more.
Q&A: Pathfinder’s use of ICT4D in Mozambique
Empowering communities through locally-created videos, illuminAid's Video Education Workshop in Mozambique fostered change by supporting Pathfinder International's efforts to address child marriage and gender-based violence. Jose Mpingo, a dedicated participant, highlights the powerful impact of these videos in changing beliefs and attitudes in Cabo Delgado province.
Window to Tomorrow
When we work in the field, one of the most amazing things for us to observe is when our beneficiary population gets a chance to see a video for the first time.
International Literacy Day 2019
Today is the International Literacy Day! Learning to read and write is a fundamental human right. Sadly, over 40 percent of the human population is illiterate--but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t have access to the same education available to the rest of the world.
Sustainable Development Goals: How illuminAid Is Helping Advance the United Nations’ Goals to Transform Our World
OMPT helps to progress the UN Sustainable Development Goal 17, which lays out targets for technology and capacity building that utilize partners in the international community to provide access to technology and innovation in order to enhance sustainability and implement developmental practices.
What Do Pesticides, Latrines and Teachers All Have in Common?
Video is so effective for behavior change that it can be used for nearly any discipline such as health, agriculture, education and civic engagement. To put it in the words of our Program Manager, Kristin, “essentially if there is a behavior change component, then video can be integrated.” At OMPT we have worked with partner organizations across a variety of sectors and have witnessed positive change with lasting results. Let’s take a look at some specific examples:
Why Investing in Education is the Best Tool We Have for Ending Poverty
When you think of global development aid, what comes to mind? Usually it’s images of disaster relief, food programs and building hospitals, homes or fresh water wells but we might be overlooking something even more important.
International Literacy Day
This Saturday, September 8th, marks the 51st annual International Literacy Day. Established in 1966 by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), the holiday was first celebrated the following year in 1967. Observed by all UN states, International Literacy Day is meant to raise awareness and highlight the importance of literacy for individuals, communities and entire nations.