Afghan Press: LAUNCHED!
After a lot of hard work, it is with great pride that we officially announce our latest project: Afghan Press.
This is a project that we are technically coordinating to eventually leave in the hands of its founding editor, Nasim Fekrat, and his colleagues. The network includes young Afghan photographers, professional journalists from around the country, prominent bloggers, activists and more.
To summarize our vision:
- We want to improve media outlets within Afghanistan through new technologies.
- We want to use digital media to show the world what currently goes unreported; things happening in Afghanistan’s remote villages, to people never given a chance to communicate with the rest of the world.
- In order to share a realistic portrayal of Afghanistan with the rest of the world, we aim to involve as many locals as possible in reporting the world around them, thus concretely enhancing the lives of Afghan people.
- We envision this taking the form of digital media, documentaries, podcasts, online TV, journalism, women blogging, youth empowerment via the internet and beyond.
This cannot be possible without your help and involvement. To succeed, we would be required to provide translation services, seminars, tutorials, and we hope to hire local developers to help us run the website as efficiently as possible.
Much of what you see could not have been possible without the help of our generous donors so far. People who read about this project and helped us out: You made this happen. THANK YOU!
We did not reach our target, but we’re doing our best with the amount that we received. Right now, we do not ask for more than $3,000 to help us run this project for the year. Please, do what you can to help out! The project has a lot of potential. You can donate via the donation widget below, or you can simply spread the word!
Esara’a:
Congratulations; but let me tell something, as I commented in Afghan Press site earlier, set an accurate policy for the site so as to bring hope to this respectable, hard-working people. A picture might portray them as a cruched, defenseless, hopeless nation, and the other might depict a vibrant and active nation facing some obstacles trying to remove them… choose the 2nd, for god’s sake!
your policy might be even reflected in the kind of photo/video you publish about Afghanistan… plzzzz
Thanks Mohammad, but my only job in Afghan Press is overseeing the technical part and increasing donations. However, I agree with your comment. I am very positive that we will see much more from Afghanistan than just the gloomy parts that we are often bombarded with through foreign media. I have a lot of faith in everyone involved so far and I’m excited to see them in action soon.
Congratulations to Nasim and the crew! Its an appreciatable work to do!
Congratulations
Esra’a Nasim and peoplein charge, a wonderful site and i hope to see more pictures, read more news from the good people of Afganistan. I hope to see them happy and prosperous.
Looking forward to getting first-hand accounts about everything, from culture and society to political feeling and more… It’s about time there was something like this!!