by LivLife
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We're a charity working in Tanzania. Our aim is to eradicate poverty through education.
We work with mostly with the Maasai tribe who take their cattle to graze hundreds of kilometres from their homes. We're hoping to use the moblog technology to get important information to this disparate community.
nige says:
Voted earlier today. Good cause, and that is a great photo. Happy to make a couple clicks for you and for the Maasai Massive!
Welcome to Moblog.
LivLife says:
Cheers Nige. Hugely appreciated. Tell your mates and let's get the Maasai on Moblog!
jc1000000 says:
Great to see you here! Fantastic photo too.
I voted today too. I hope you win because your project would be very much at home here with Jigalong who moblogs from the Australian bush and Euphro who sometimes blogs from antartica. There's also Greenpeace here and Amnesty too.
LivLife says:
Talk about a welcoming community! Thanks everyone... Feel at home straight away...
LivLife says:
Thanks folks! Has anyone got any ideas for how to use Moblog in other ways in Africa? Is anyone a teacher? I'm thinking of mixing Moblog with Google maps to do a virtual tour of a village with different stories... Bring the place alive... What does everyone think?
nige says:
Damn good idea. Have a look at the groups for some more ideas. I'd also suggest looking at projects like http://moblog.net/stopped and http://moblog.net/britglyph for an idea of how you can use mapping and collaboration using Moblog as a base.
Caine says:
I think that's a good idea. A moblog could always be set up for a school, or for children, specific to their point of view.
ETA: I have a Nikon point 'n' shoot I'm very fond of, but I'd be happy to donate it to such a purpose, if that would be needed.
LivLife says:
Cheers Nige, I'll check those projects out. There's some good shots on Google maps of the area we work - http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source;=s_q&hl;=en&geocode;=&q;=arusha&sll;=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn;=21.823835,57.084961&ie;=UTF8≪=-3.415753,36.491024&spn;=0.017928,0.027874&t;=h&z;=16&iwloc;=A (excuse the external link... sure you can get it in Moblog but can't work it out yet!). You can see each of the Maasai homesteads (the small circular-ish settlements). I think it'd be ace if we could put markers at each village and add photos & videos - tell the story of the real people and the real Africa...
Caine, that's an amazingly generous offer. Once we've had the chance to work out how the project would best work I may well take you up on the offer. There's not a better way for someone to tell their own story than by taking photos of what's important to them
Caine says:
Well, I'm fortunate to have more than one camera. The best purpose one could serve is exactly what you say, for someone to have the opportunity to paint their life. :) I can be contacted by email from my moblog.
jc1000000 says:
Old camera donation, for any project powered by moblog, is a lovely idea.
Max - have added this photo to the map. Just click 'show on map'. You can also 'see LivLife's maps' in your moblog sidebar.
To add pictures to the map via web or mobile is quite easy - see these instructions
What a joy to find smonoee else who thinks this way.
What a joy to find smonoee else who thinks this way.
