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Empowerment journalism is the act of professional journalists educating ordinary citizens in multi-media and online story telling while concurrently working in collaboration with those they instruct.

The goal is to give global access to stories from regions of the world that normally do not receive adequate coverage, along with developing a new cadre of indigenous journalists to ensure that reporting and the practice of journalism will exist regardless of media trends.

Reporting is done from a cultural context and not an 'us versus them' mentality.

stories from a local perspective
August 23, 2008

By Gonzaga Muganwa Rwandan journalist President Kagame, for the umpteenth time, made the Reporters without Borders list of global predators of media freedom alongside renowned dictators, terrorists and drug lords. One would wonder why Paul Kagame, a man who has...

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February 21, 2008

by Gonzaga Muganwa The irony can never be missed; the megalomaniac budgets are what infuriate the wretched that it is supposed to be looking after. Poetically, that can describe the United Nations system in its practical relations with the masses....

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Construction in Kurdistan
HOPE T-Shirt Project
HOPE Artists Teach Tiziano Students in Kigali
Student Life in Butare
stories from a local perspective
Red Cross Stops Giving Aid to IDPs
A Visit to the Chaikhana
A Western Introduction to the Seropaykhana
Clean Water Shortage in the Mathare Slum