Global Seed Grant Activity Board

[GEM] Green Tale

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Met Sthapana
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2020-08-16 23:29
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Share the progress status of your project following the questions.
  1. Project description
Green Tale is a joint project between a youth-led club named “Gender, Environment, Mental” (GEM) and a non-governmental organization named “Sunflower Film Organization” (SFO). Green Tale is a folktale program to bring environmental understanding to audiences. The project aims to connect with youth-led clubs, non-government organizations, local green communities, and stakeholders together to take action on environmental issues. The program consists of a folktale story production and a storytelling event at the coastal community.

The main concept of the story describes “a talking seahorse travelling from its habitat to the mangrove area and meeting a local kid. After several meets, the seahorse tells her/him why she/he travels to the mangrove area. The kid learns some basic understanding to save the environment and her/his village. The kid tells the story to her/his family. Then, they start to do what the seahorse told them.

The purpose of the story is to inform the audience about basic understanding of archipelago biodiversity and climate change effects, mangrove advantages to coastal biodiversity and climate change effects, climate adaptation through farming, and a basic understanding of waste management.

 
  1. Project progress up to now
On 15th June, The project coordinator conducted a meeting with project members at SFO office, the partner organization, to discuss the folktale story and theme, project task, and project timeline. After the first meeting, the project coordinator started to draft the story script.

The community coordinator has reached to Marine Conservation Cambodia, an organization working on coral reef and seahorse conservation in Kep province to facilitate a visit to understand more on the impact toward the coral reef and the seahorse. Just because of Covid19 situation, they usually stay at the island (the conservation work site) which is far away from internet connection sometimes. It took some time to facilitate the travel to visit them. Now we are preparing to visit them in the third week of August from 18th - 22th.

In July, the project coordinator looked for an illustrator to start working on story character and storyboard.

On 10th August, the project coordinator conducted a small meeting at a coffee shop with the illustrator and animator to discuss the storyboard, the story theme, and the short animation process. The illustrator and animator work individually at their place and keep updating each other through messenger group chat.

 
  1. Project plan forward
Describe your plan for the time remaining. Any improvements, cautions, and expectations for future activities.

We plan to announce the project on social media on 17th August before traveling to the seahorse conservation site. The project members consist of 4 people will travel to visit the seahorse conservation site from 18th - 22th august. During the visit, the project members will also have a mini meeting with the team to discuss on the mini storytelling event proposed activities. We were worried about the travel because it was quite far from the mainland to the island, the seahorse conservation site Koh Ach Seh, as during this August it was raining almost everyday at the cities and some local provinces.

After the visit from seahorse conservation site, at the first week of September, the community coordinator and screening coordinator will travel to ecotourism community, Trapaeng Sangkae in Kampot province to coordinate with the community for the proposed storytelling event. We plan to reach out to kids in the village and some young teachers to invite them for the storytelling event.

After the visit from the ecotourism community, there will be a meeting with the whole team’s members to prepare for the mini storytelling event. The screening coordinator will start to work with the screening technical team to prepare for the mini screening at the storytelling event. The project coordinator will start to prepare logistics for the storytelling event.

The short animation is planned to finalize in the fourth week of September. There will be a meeting in the fourth week of September or the first week of October with the whole team’s members and stakeholder to check the short animation and as an orientation for the storytelling events. The mini storytelling event expected to be held at the third week of October.