GlobalGirl Media Training Academy & News Bureaus

Los Angeles

After working this past summer to create their six part video project focused on food justice in and around the Los Angeles community, GlobalGirls of LA have continued to explore food accessibility in their webisode series entiled,  “Food Forward.” You can learn more about vegitarianism among other food related topics HERE 

GlobalGirl Rocio Ortega has been awarded Nickelodeon’s Halo Award! As a recipient of the award, Rocio has been recognized as one of America’s many young leaders as she quests for change. GlobalGirl has had the pleasure and honor of working with this phenomenal young woman, and we are excited to see her continue to inspire others with the diligent and earnest characteristics of a true GlobalGirl. Congrtulations Rocio, we are so proud of you!

 GlobalGirls of LA have been requested at the prestigous MS Foundation Luncheon. They will be there to report on discission topics and interview various attendees.

Chicago

Much like the GlobalGirls in LA, GGM Chicago ladies have been on the go in their reporting. The girls have produced three new videos each focusing on a different topic.  In the video titled “ The Chicago Fund For Women,” globalgirls tour the The Chicago Fund For Women Conference and ask attendees about their view on issues plaguing women in Chicago. Next up, “BlackStone Bicycle Works,” a production focused on Chicago’s up and coming bicycle community and its relation to the Chicago community at large. In the last of the new videos, entitled,  “Nowhere to Somewhere, Three Women Stories from Chicago,” the GlobalGirls profile three inspiring Chicago Women who have worked tireslessly to turn awful nothings into a successful something.

Check out each new video here!

Chicago Fund For Women Celebration

BlackStone Bicycle Works

Nowhere to Somewhere, Three Women's Stories from Chicago

 South Africa

Like their sisters in Los Angeles and Chicago, GlobalGirls in South Africa continue to report on issues of interest. In one of their two new videos entitled “GGMSA-Love Life Counseling in Soweto,” reporters cover a counseling session that addresses relationships, drugs, and everyday life in Soweto. In video two entitled “Highway Africa Conference,” the globalgirls switch the setting, and attend the Highway Africa Conference, during which the girls interview and bare witness to the future of Journalism in Africa.

 You can watch both videos here:

GGMSA-Love Life Counseling in Soweto

Highway Africa Conference

Good news Continues for GGM South Africa, as they have successfully obtained the Open Society Grant for the year 2014.

 And even more good news! GGM has secured an office at the new IT Hub Center, Tshimologony Precinct Project in partnership with Wits University.

 GlobalGirls Kamogelo Mabizela and Sthokozo Mabaso have been invited to attend the first International UNESCO Conference on Women and Media this December in Bangkok, Thailand! What an amazing opportunity to share and spread ideas of gender equality in the media. Way to go Girls!

Morocco

Along with GlobalGirls Kamogelo and Sthokoz in South Africa, Morocco’s own GlobalGirls, Rajae Hammadi and Laila Ait Oujamaa have also been invited to attend the first International UNESCO Conference on Women and Media. Congratulations to you ladies!

Through a small grant from the US Peace Corps, GGM reporters have been working on a 30-miunte documentary about sexual harassment, street harassment in Morocco, titled “Breaking The Silence,” and will launch this documentary on Nov. 25^th, to coincide with the International Day of Awareness on Violence Against Women, with a live web stream event at Dar America, in Casablanca

GGM Reporters  Karima and Ahd from Tetouan worked on a ten-minute video about the FORSATY PROJECT, an initiative of the International Organization of Migration (IOM) about youth training and alternatives for school dropouts in Northern Morocco.

Congratulations to our new Program Director Hasnae Fathi, as well as our new Production Director Najlae Benmbarek!

LOS ANGELES: GGM LA recently wrapped a webisode series on Food Justice in Los Angeles. Following our Summer New Media Academy, 11 GlobalGirls worked tirelessly to produce a six-part video project that explores issues ranging from food deserts to obesity, community gardens and food trucks.

Check out one of our segments on "food apartheid" and what people do as more grocery stores close down in their neighborhood. Watch it HERE.

Congratulations to the 2013 GGM LA New Media Academy Graduates! Way to go, GlobalGirls!  

CHICAGO: GGM Chicago also graduated a new cohort of GlobalGirls! This group produced a six-part webisode series focused on the economic disparity in Chicago, and creative ways of overcoming urban blight in the city. This series, titled "The Two Chicagos," profiles community-based leaders in housing, health and education. It is told through the personal experience of teen-age girls from South and West Chicago. 

Congratulations to the 2013 GGM Chicago New Media Academy Graduates! We're so proud of you, GlobalGirls!

MOROCCO: GlobalGirls in Morocco have been especially busy this summer! The girls completed documentaries on sexual harrassment and another on high school dropout rates, both funded by USAID/ITQANE as a part of their Youth Speak project. This project is a research initiative designed to explore the thoughts and emotions of youth and their thoughts on their future. 

Under Project Director Maureen Sieh, 10 GlobalGirls produced five short videos and a 20-minute documentary about the process that started this in 2012. 

For photos of GGM Morocco at an USAID's Youth Speak event check out our website.

SOUTH AFRICA: Congratulations to our new S.A. Project Director Oageng Tsatsi.