An innovative new media project called “Our City, Our Voices: Immigrant Newscasts in the Digital Age” is giving Latin American immigrants in Philadelphia the media tools to tell their own stories.

Through this project, people from Mexico to Chile, working as carpenters, cooks, laborers and nannies, and ranging in age from 16-60 will begin the process of creating mini-documentaries. The common denominator amongst these new media makers is to illustrate the challenges and hopes of leaving your home and living in a place that does not know your history.

The program trains immigrants to use the web, as well as offering them the tools — internet access and a computer — to get online and tell their stories through new media and video.

Via / MediaShift IdeaLab