Check out this awesome presentation about The Maldives Project and the country in general.

As you can read from our previous post, we’ve been struggling with trying to understand just what the Maldivians are trying to say (to us, or to each other). We also discussed this while teaching our second batch of workshop students, the J-students at the college. The topic of our last day was clear communication and how important it is in news writing (you don’t want to bury the news in the middle of the story!).

Yaaayyy!! Today was the last day of our first journalism workshop series. For the past five days we’ve taught media skills to the young staff of DhiTV, a local cable channel. The attendance varied from seven eager students on the second day to a mere two on the last hour of our last day (thanks Ina and Shifa for staying [...]

The other day we followed DhiTV’s star reporter, 23-year-old Bishara Hassan, on her video shoot to a local school’s science fair to see how she goes about her job. The kids, just 8 to 9 years of age, were super smart and had come up with creative ways to save the Maldives from climate change and other threats.
We really enjoyed [...]

Our first workshop at DhiTV with young, motivated and knowledge-hungry Maldivian journalists.