Women Find Empowerment Through Digital Storytelling

At the 53rd United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) held March 2 to March 13, in New York City, the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) sponsored "Digital Storytelling," an event that highlighted the use of digital media as a powerful platform that gives survivors of gender-based violence the ability to determine how they are viewed and how their personal accounts are told. Reuters reports:

Through digital storytelling, youth and adults are able to use existing media tools to record, produce, and share stories from their lives in ways that promote artistic expression, health and well being, and justice.

"Digital Storytelling is a medium used to bring the stories of women's lives to the foreground through both video imaging, and still pictures," said John Torres, senior public relations manager for ADRA International. "These short productions express the many and varied experiences and challenges that women around the world face on a day-to-day basis."