Organisation: Espacio de Comunicación Insular

Country: Dominican Republic

Abject poverty and constant political instability lie behind the flight of almost a million Haitians into neighbouring Dominican Republic in the last 15 years. The poverty and insecurity from which they tried to escape have followed them into the host country – where, whether illegal or legal, Haitians workers are forced to live and work in denigrating conditions. Created in 2005 by a group of committed journalists and communicators from the Dominican Republic, Espacio Insular seeks to provide leaders of Haitian migrant community organisations in the country with communication skills in order to increase their networking, advocacy and lobbying abilities and use communication to develop links of solidarity between the people of the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Espacio Insular is seeking to provide popular communication training for social change to community leaders in general and to current journalism students. The project aims to create a network of popular correspondents which will contribute to the development of their communities by reporting on their living conditions. The training will increase the marginalised communities’ capacity to claim and advocate for their communication rights.

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