Impact Storytelling for Charities is a course in the Volunteering and Humanitarian Work track, delivered by Al Qurain Training Center in Doha, Qatar, and taught by the journalist Anwar Abdulrahman Al-Taneeb. It focuses on choosing the story, gathering its material and writing it for reports, websites and social media while respecting the privacy of the people in it, and ends with a certificate of completion in cooperation with the International Business Council.
After this course, you will be better prepared for
- Choosing a story that represents a programme's real impact.
- Interviewing the story's subject with their consent.
- Writing the story at lengths that suit a report, a website and social media.
- Protecting the beneficiary's dignity and privacy in text and images.
Who is this course for?
- Communications teams at charities
- Programme and community project coordinators
- Corporate social responsibility teams
- Volunteer team leaders
What do you receive?
- Course materials and a template for requesting the subject's consent
- An applied project: an impact story from your organisation's work, in a long and a short version
- Exercises in interviewing and editing, with the trainer's notes on your text
- A certificate of completion from Al Qurain Training Center, in cooperation with the International Business Council
Why this programme?
Anwar Al-Taneeb has written for the press since 1988 and has led the workshop "The Journalistic Article and Interview", and her short films address community and family development and support for people with special needs. She helps you write a story its subject is happy with before your audience reads it.