Interview with Ector Diogenes Cassamá

Ector is the coordinator of the Rising Voices grantee project "Youth Voices of Bandim and Enterramento" in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau.

I am Ector Diogenes Cassamá

I am the coordinator of the Cultural Group Netos de Bandim

which is AMIC's partner in this project Eyes and Voices of the Youth of Bandim and Enterramento

Currently I am also the coordinator of this project

and our project has the goal of train the youth in communication using the internet

Currently we have already provided training to the youth in the technical area and information collection for the community

and also we have provided training in the use of digital cameras

the second phase is for the youth to go out into the community and take photos of daily life

related to some problems that they may identify in the community, we are going to organize

a generation gathering of elderly, youth and children of the neighborhood

to discuss these problems and all of these will be recorded

and published on our blogs, which are already created

with the name "Bairro de Bandim" (Bandim Neighborhood) and also the blog of Enterramento

"Bairro de Enterramento" (Enterramento Neighborhood)

Anyway, what we are doing is to make known the importance, in other words, the richness of Guinea-Bissau

and the positive aspects of the neighborhoods where the project acts

In those neighborhoods, the group Netos de Bandim, in the Bandim neighborhood, is already implementing the project

and in the neighborhood of Enterramento, the cultural group Enterramento Unido

is responsible for implementing the project.

And this project, as I was saying, has AMIC and Child's Friends Association as partners.

For the country, it is something new

and the youth and children are not used to communicating via internet

This project will innovate and help a lot the community

to be able to communicate with the outside world.