Dignity in Poverty is a BBC Citizen Journalism project asking people about their housing situation, access to food, water and toilet facilities and access to electricity and also access to health care and education. In what ways are people poor - how does this make them feel and do they feel that they are respected despite being poor, how do poor people retain their dignity, in what area if any, are they losing their dignity and what is their self respect as human beings like?

 The Dignity in Poverty project coincided with the UN's Eradication of Poverty Day - which was also the 60th anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights. The BBC Citizen Journalism Project invited WOUGNET to contribute to the stories for the day.
 

Berna Ngolobe and Javie Ssozi from WOUGNET moved across the street from the WOUGNET offices to interact with members of the community in the Kifumbira Zone, Kamwokya. Their story featured the appalling situation including poor sanitation, heaps of garbage, shared toileds and in some cases no access to toilets at all. The story is featured on the BBC World Poverty 2008 webpage (scroll down to 'Poverty in Africa').

WOUGNET is among a number of organisations in Africa participating in the Citizen Journalism in Africa project that is funded by Hivos and the EU, and coordinated by Hivos and SANGONET. This is a project designed at building the capacity of African organisations in using Citizen Journalism techniques and tools to raise grassroot voices and concerns to the fore. Berna and Javie are both beneficiaries of the training conducted under this project, and are now part of the ToT set of Uganda for this project.