Neighbourhood Diaries

Bishan Sammadar and Sahar Romani are the coordinators of Kalam: Margins Write, a creative writing program for marginalized youth in India. They’ve already done amazing work using print to encourage creativity and self-expression with poetry and creative writing. This Rising Voices microgrant will help establish a new project, “Neighborhood Diaries”, which will train underprivileged youth living in Kolkata’s slums to be citizen journalists. As they wrote on their application, “Often urban slums in India are misrepresented and sensationalized.” By empowering young residents who live there to tell their own stories, they will gain power on how their community is portrayed. You can find out more about Kalam: Margins Write on their weblog.

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