Feedback from the trainees

People giving their experiences show how they can start from zero and reach their goals, not losing their morale I will use this experience capturing people's stories to help people develop their skills. Even those who have lost their morale can, through sharing stories gain back their morale and achieve their targets.

Diana Kakwezi

I'm technology oriented, I like new tech., so I appreciate how we can do things in the field, collecting data from different communities. I liked the way we could capture stories, I liked the teamwork, the planningthe programme was really complex but we managed in just over a week! By changing people's lives you also change yours.

Felix Nzikobanyanka

Before the programme came, others were in darkness, but now everyone is shining because training them how to save is important to their lives. With the training showing you how to save, how to boost your life, stepping up with what you have and become more than you are even expecting is amazing I' d known through them giving their stories what they are facing, what challenges they have, what has changed their lives and what they are planning for the future.

Naomi Musiande

The programme was so fantastic and very helpful. I liked learning how to film and how to work with people in the field. Through different stories we learned, especially through the River of Life, how to give a picture of a story

Simon Kibwila Kimuke

Reaching the field, we took the methodology and it was amazing because we got even more information than we had wanted, but we were offered it because people liked the way we engaged them in the activity. I really learned how a person can really share their voice to be heard outside by way of video and I want to use it in the future where I see a barrier where our voices or the voices of the community need to be heard

Confiance Ishimwe

The most interesting part is the story circle in the field. We were able to relate with our different group members and see the joy of them giving us the results when we were listening to the most significant change stories It's the best way to show what people are going through, or where they come from, what they plan to do and how they want it to be done because it's people-based, and that is a very unique feature of this InsightShare method.

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Diana Salume

This experience has been nice, learning how to get the community to tell their stories, how to use the gadgets, how to edit the stories into movies and how to analyse them We're starting a new project in Rwamwanja (?) next year so I hope we can use the skills and knowledge for this, and for the baseline of a new project we're implementing in Nakivale.

Noah Ssemijja

It was an amazing period I learned how to film with an iPad and I was very happy to meet different people and make new friends. I want to use the knowledge in my community to improve and get good feedback.

Nelly Kamikaze

I loved the participatory nature of the training - not picking out a client or customer trying to understand, but going into the communities and getting them to share their stories and they select the stories to record themselves I want to use the technique to capture stories to understand better what is the impact of our programmes on communities and how to get feedback on how we can improve our services to meet their needs better.

Alice

Norah Lajwa

Learning all the new techniques on how to work with the community in a settlement - these were new skills for me and I want to use them in my future career, to use video as being the voice of the community.

Mazza Dolib

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Appendix One: Participants in the field (excluding the PV MSC video storytellers)

Day One - Wenzetu