Social Media for Everyone
Savvy Chavvy - a new social network for young Gypsies and Travellers
On Road Media is training 50 young Gypsies and Travellers in social media skills in Kent, Cambridgshire and Surrey. It's a Mediabox funded project led by Unltd the foundation for Social Entrepreneurs in partnership with Media for Development.
What we did
On Road Media set them up with their own social network - www.savvychavvy.com and taught them how to podcast and produce video blogs. The idea is that they can report on what's going on in their own communities and keep in touch with other Travellers who have largely stopped Travelling.
Why it's important
www.savvychavvy.com has almost 500 young people on it in less than a month which demonstrates the need for dedicated spaces like this on the web for marginalised groups. Spaces like these do not alienate the group concerned from the rest of society - they allow the young Gypsies in this case to communicate freely amongst each other in a safe place away from the discrimination and prejudice that many of them face daily.
Click below to hear one of the packages the kids produced.
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Final Witchford.mp3, 8.5 MB
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Permalink Reply by charlotte on -
hi i'm signed onto savvy chavvy, but my friend who is banned used my laptop to sign in,it came up on screen that she was banned,and now when i try and sign in it wont let me, can somone help and sort this out??
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Permalink Reply by lisa-marie on -
i am in a traler and i am baby sitting me gel.........
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Permalink Reply by chantelle oleary on
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oh god i hate baby sitting lol x
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Permalink Reply by lisa-marie smith on -
it is the shittest thing going and i had no choice because it was me mam and dads anniverssary so i couldent say no could i
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Permalink Reply by lisa-marie smith on
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i know it is i am actually sick of doing it now cant wait until i am 18 so i am free lol wb xxx
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Permalink Reply by lisa-marie smith on
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sorry i avent text u back my laptop had broken and i only got it back today and the children is sometimes naughty and sometimes they are little shits when they fight !!xx
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Permalink Reply by bernie ward on -
wats happin baby
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Permalink Reply by chantelle oleary on
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im soooo bored im baby sitting
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Permalink Reply by sexy_finney123@yahoo.co.uk on -
heyy x im tryin to sighn out but it wont let me any body no wat to do x rite bak to cfinney1997@googlemail.co.uk plzzz x urz cynthia finney x
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heyy x im tryin to sighn out but it wont let me any body no wat to do x rite bak to cfinney1997@googlemail.co.uk plzzz x urz cynthia finney x
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We have trained people from:
CRISIS
Capacity Global
Institute for Development Studies
World Wildlife Fund
Open Democracy
Social Enterprise Coalition
Ten Feet Away homeless arts group
National Union of Journalists
Unltd foundation for social entrepreneurs
BASIC (British American Security Information Council)
Theatre for a Change
British Friends of the Hebrew University
EASE
Dynamis
Guardian Unlimited
Index Online
School for Social Entrepreneurs
Wellcome Trust
Medical Research Council
New Humanist Magazine
NHS
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