Grassroots Girls Initiative.

I recently piloted a participatory video curriculum with young women participating in the Firelight Foundation/Nike Foundation’s Grassroots Girls Initiative in Rwanda and Malawi. The project used the Most Significant Change methodology to document adolescent girls’ experiences in vocational interventions at three community-based organizations. To date, the girls have used their new video editing and interviewing skills to create 3-5 minute stories of their own experiences; write and edit short public service announcements around key issues affecting women and girls; trained other women in their work collectives to document their own experiences; and collectively shared their insights on the status of women and girls with key decision makers including local government representatives and national and international development leaders.

Check out examples of the girls’ work: