For this indigenous community in Bolivia, promises of running water and electricity offered by a mining company never materialized. Instead, the community was subjected to environmentally destructive mining practices and explosions that threatened their livelihood—Brazil nuts. The community leaders decided to fight back, seeking external help from technical advisors, and holding countless meetings within the community in order to raise awareness.

After two Shell oil spills in the Niger Delta, Nigeria’s Bodo community suffered collapsed ecosystems and chronic environmental damage. A once bountiful agrarian community was left barren. No one was held accountable for the oil spill, and its devastating consequences, so the community took matters into its own hands. With support from Amnesty International, the Media Awareness and Justice Initiative trained 120 community people, pulled from 60 communities in Rivers and Bayelsa state, on baseline data and environmental monitoring.

In January 2020, The Media Awareness and Justice Initiative (MAJI) collaborated with the New Media Advocacy Project and AFREWATCH to carry out film making and audiovisual content collection in the Demoractic Republic of Congo.

These trainings were aimed at educating community people living in mining communities in Kolowezi on the various ways in which they could collect audiovisual contents  and use the them for advocacy and stakeholder interactions.

With the Support from Global Green Grants Fund (GGF), The Media Awareness and Justice Initiative carried out the training of Environmental Monitors on how to use independent Media platforms and mobile devices in the collection and factual presentation of environmental data for non violent advocacy and stakeholder interaction. The project was aimed to acheive the following objectives