In partnership with DW Akademie, from June 10 – 29, 2024, The Hub hosted a series of 9 Media and Information Literacy (MIL) workshops – Short Youth Projects (SYP) – on topics including:
Freedom of the Press and Safety of Journalists
Elections & Information Disorder
Be Digital Be Safe
Power 2 Empower
A free and open press enables citizen engagement, is crucial to fighting corruption, and ensures a healthy democracy. Journalists need to be able to practise their work freely and report on politics, the economy, and social matters. When journalists are censored or silenced, we too suffer because we lack the information we need!
Power 2 Empower workshops are a fun way to learn about the power of social media, help us form meaningful connections with each other and the issues that affect our daily lives!
With Be Digital Be Safe, we’re learning to understand social media and ourselves as users, practice safety tips, and create security strategies for our digital footprint
With Elections & Information Disorder we learn the media’s role around elections, become aware of how politicians use the media, and the importance of democracy and core democratic principles
Some of our Skills & Soup participants and students from the Lesotho National Council of Women also got the chance to join the workshops!
The SYPs were based on short films produced by The Hub in 2023 in partnership with DW Akademie:
5 new short films are in prodction for release in August 2024!
Look out for short films coming soon on MIL topics including:
- Mental Health and Online Habits
- Gendered Disinformation
- Online Job Scams
- Dangers of Sexting
- Avoiding Becoming a Victim of Human Trafficking
Special thanks to DW Akademie for their support of MIL in Lesotho!
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