Spreading the word

We have distributed our ward DVD's to various people in ward 10. These are the four schools in the area that we have given them to - Mary Waters High School, St Mary's School, Grahamstown Primary School and George Dickerson. Because our focus was largely on youth and because we involved the schools in our research, we felt it was important and necessary to make sure that the schools had these resources.
We also left a DVD with the librarian and announced to the audience at our public meeting that they could view the productions there.
Other people we gave the DVD's to were the main catalysts in our area, namely:
* Newton Jordaan and one of his friends. These are two young adults in the area and Newton was the subject of one of the audio slideshows. They have promised to show the DVD to all their friends.
* Lena May and Iris Basson - ward councillors in the area, who have also been involved in our projects (tornado roofs and tennis courts respectively.)
* Marcelle Booysen, a prominent community member and catalyst.
*Patricia Bouwer, the lady whose house is going to be fixed by Active Voices with the support of businesses, students and lecturers.

The people we gave the DVD's to were excited to receive them and Lena May even said she is going to burn more of them to distribute to more people. She also wants to show the other ward councillors our work and try and convince them that student journalists are a good thing and that the municipality should use us and work with us not against us! :-)

We are confident that our productions will be viewed by many people and have a positive impact on the community.
(Posted by Gabi)