NEW IDEA PRESENTEDBY

OCEN GODWINSTUDENT MBARARA UNIVERSITY

Phone:+256779573471Email: oponggodwin@gmail.com

Vision

Creating a better world

Mission of Youth reporting SMS will be

Help youths speak out on what's happening on your community and how they need to be helped.

Use reported SMS results and information to update and increase community awareness for intervention.

Participate in nations wide campaigns to help improve life styles of unprivileged communities .

Share what's happening around world with other scouting team challenges the communities are undergoing through.

INTRODUCTION

Youth reporting SMS system is an idea which will give platform for disadvantaged or unprivileged youths to report the challenges they are facing or undergoing, how they need to be helped and group formation. Many youths are currently facing the problems of health related issues, gender violence and drug abuses silently.

The platform will establish a virtual youth reporting avenue through which youths will spread out problems facing their community for possible intervention.

PROBLEM ANALYSIS Many countries worldwide is still faced with

youth unemployment, violation of children's rights, poverty, high school drop-out rates and gender based violence and many others. The youth are threatened by pandemic diseases i.e. HIV and AIDS; drug abuse and many of them have found themselves in difficult circumstances especially on streets without basic needs i.e. food, shelter, clothing and lack of education, all are dying behind curtain just because they lack information.

STREET CHILDRENS IN MBARARA

WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE

Need to wake-up the community and involve young people more in the affairs that affect them.

Youth involvement and participation is very important because young people have the right to be involved and to have their voice heard in decisions that will affect them. Participation is a fundamental right of all people regardless of age

STRATEGIES TO IMPLEMENT THE IDEA

Youth reporters in partnership with challenge: future will be giving young people opportunities to participate in improving the quality of life in their community and acquire the necessary skills, knowledge and attitudes to become real agents of development through the Short Messaging system (SMS).

Disadvantaged community will be in position to report how they in their groups would need to be help and the problems they face.

STRATEGIES CONT……

The SMS system will be free that youths will use to report on what is happening in their community by establishing a vibrant two-way flow of communication. Beyond finding out what is happening in communities, mobilizing the community to take action on several issues such as global HIV/AIDS, safe water , conflict resolution and peace building, and preventing gender based violence.

AIMS

Stirring community based action through Social Monitoring and youths will be given an opportunity to contribute daily towards creating a better world, to find ways to be constructive, and not to leave society to the care of others, when they themselves can be helpful. Every challenge future team will commit to using their competencies to help others, to share their knowledge, and to improve community life.

AIMS CONT…..

Youth Reporting SMS System will be made of, Weekly FREE SMS messages and polls, regular radio programs that will broadcast stories Scouts and other people report, Newspaper articles about stories you report

PERSONNEL

This system will be designed by students from institute of Computer science Mbarara University under the team leadership of Ocen Godwin who are too ready to volunteer for this noble course.

Looking forward to making our idea supported and implemented for the benefit of unprivileged community for betterment of making world better place for all

FINAL MESSAGE

In consideration that information is very crucial and resource and a gap which we felt is missing encouraged us to suggest that it will advisable to institute such initiative given the fact almost beyond half the population of the world uses mobile phone an evidence that gives us confidence about the project.