Highlight: ethno e-empowerment

8–9 November 2017. Brussels, Belgium. The 2017 Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Coalition of European Lobbies for Eastern African Pastoralism (CELEP) was organised by VSF-Belgium.

One of the partners of the AGM is up4change, an NGO with the mission to bring new educational opportunities with multimedia e-learning programs to illiterate communities around the world. 

• While working with nomads in Northern Kenia since 2012 up4change discovered that pastoralists use mobile technology with ease and

  

  up4change became a 
  new member of CELEP

  enthusiasm.
• Based on this experience up4change started to deploy newest tablet PCs for educational programs which integrate videos and other rich media content relying on tablet-based eBooks as a learning tool.
• eeem.org makes the best use of technological progress and indispensable social skills of people.
• It educates barefoot teachers to become multipliers. They will spread mobile multimedia learning approaches to more people and will also document their educational progress.

The eBooks cover a large variety of situations, sceneries and tasks of nomads’ everyday life, such as:

• Manyatta – the village
• Fora – grazing zone
• Market – buying and selling
• Town – scratch cards, M-Pesa and buying goods
• Animal Health – symptoms, diseases and treatment
• Drought Resilience – preparation and protection
• Alternative Livelihoods – banking, fish and hay
• Celebrations and Conflicts

Related: go to http://www.eeem.org/pilot-project/ you will find more videos .