Day 4- News diary meetings

The real work started today. We had two meetings, one meeting was amongst the different groups as they set up their news diary and the other with our assigned mentor.


In the first meeting, each member had to say what they plan on doing regarding their given subject. My group, we are focusing on people living by the river, we had plenty of ideas; the floods, the dead people found in the water, the diseases, the agriculture, lifestyle change amongst the different classes, gender issues and family issues were top of our list.


We kind of had it figured out and gave each other ideas on how to incorporate multimedia with our different stories. Some of the ideas were better told using still graphics, others just text and others just video. With some of the stories we thought of ways to incorporate the different media.


The second meeting was with our mentor, Margaret Renn. She took our ideas, reworked them and gave them a better focus. I am now researching on children living by the river.


I find the topic interesting because children do suffer the most when it comes to pollution, poverty and all other social ills BUT I feel that it is overdone. Hence in my research my challenge is to find something different about the plight of children and find a different way of telling it.


It was either women, children or stay at home fathers staying by the river. I know my bias is very obvious but we all have our passion in life. I would love to some how incorporate the plight of men who are raising children in these conditions.


And yes the rich will be represented. And I will also explore storm water drains along the Jukskei River where children play not only in Alex.