AFEM on the move: Fighting Congo’s Ills With Education and an Army of Women

Monday, February 7, 2011

Fighting Congo’s Ills With Education and an Army of Women

Todd Heisler reports on the opening of V Day's City of Joy in the New York Times.February 6, 2011 :

BUKAVU, Democratic Republic of Congo — Eve Ensler has an audacious plan.

For years, diplomats, aid workers, academics and government officials here have been vexed almost to the point of paralysis about how to attack this country’s staggering problem of sexual violence, in which hundreds of thousands of women have been raped, many quite sadistically, by the various armed groups who haunt the hills of eastern Congo. Read more >>

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Activities

AFEM / SK performs or has performed the following projects with various partners:

- "Reports of sexual violence in the territories of Walungu, Kabare and Uvira" with the support of ISIS WICCE

- Mobilization of rural women and strengthening their capacity for qualitative and quantitative participation in the elections of 2011 and the balance of gender relations in different sectors of community life. With the support of Diakonia

- "Institutional support and media coverage of the activities of V-DAY"

- "Training and professionalism of women journalists" with the support of NED "National Endowment for Democracy" from March 2010 to February 2011.

- "Mobilization of rural women and strengthening their capacity for qualitative and quantitative participation in the elections of 2011 and the balance of gender relations in different sectors of the community. "With the support of Diakonia

- "Reports on gender, good governance and sexual violence in the territories of Kalehe, Uvira and Walungu" with financial support from NCA (Norwegian Church Aid) from May to October 2008.

- "Participation of Women and professionalism of women journalists" with financial support from DIAKONIA. From July 2009 to June 2011

- "Awareness campaign on the fight against sexual violence in the media" with the support of CORDAID.

- "Education for rural women's rights and good governance" with the support of the Swedish organization Diakonia. March 2008 to March 2009 (possible extension until 2010)

- "Reports on gender, good governance and sexual violence in the territories of Kalehe, Uvira and Walungu" with financial support from NCA (Norwegian Church Aid) from May to October 2008.

- "Reports of sexual violence in the territories of Walungu, Kabare and Uvira" with the support of ISIS WICCE, 2008

- Campaign "Challenging the silence: the media against sexual violence" from March 2006 to date with the support of LOLA MORA (radio shows, workshops, advocacy before the International Criminal Court in The Hague)

- "Producing radio within 16 days of activism to fight against sexual violence" with the support of the organization TROCAIRE in December 2007.

- "Awareness of rural women on issues of local elections in the DRC", with the support of the PPI in July 2007

- "Exchange of experience of women in the media in Rwanda and DR Congo" with the support of LOLA MORA organization, 2007.

- "Awareness of rural women in the democratization process in RD.Congo" with the support of the PPI in July 2006 to June 2007
- Institutional support by the Institut Panos Paris from 2006 to 2007

In addition, AFEM / SK offers its services since 2008 for media companies and NGOs (eg in October 2008, covering 80 years of FOMULAC Katana)

Mission

South Kivu Women's Media Association has the following overall objectives:

To work for women's and Congolese women's advancement through available media outlets.

Specific objectives :

To inform women of their rights and the mechanisms in place to protect those rights.

To encourage women's freedom of expression.To fight for equal rights between men and women.

To fight for quantitative and qualitative gender parity in organizations and in all areas of public life.

To facilitate women's involvement in good governance and the brokering of lasting peace.

To support activities for women's development by helping them with communication and access to available media outlets.

To fight against all forms of sexual violence through the media.

To promote peace through the media.

History

Objectives

-Professionalism for female journalists, though training (short sessions or in-depth training thanks to a fellowship program) and through exchanges and networking with foreign media.

-To put in place a network for female journalists on the regional and national level ; To create a similar network for female journalists in other provinces.

-Ongoing awareness campaigns for rural women in South Kivu Province's 8 territories on a various topics, particularly good governance and gender

-To offer news services (organizing conferences, editing articles and providing media coverage) to NGOs and partner media companies.

-The creation of a news outlet in Bukavu, South Kivu Province.

- The installation of a professional recording and editing studio for radio shows.

-The launch of a women's news magazine.

AFEM T-SHIRTS

T-shirts to support AFEM are available in Washington D.C. or New York. Price: $40.

Please contact Chrisse Lam at chrissielamchop@gmail.com to place an order. Chrissie Lam, founder of Create for a Cause, collaborated with designer, Deena Suh to design and print t-shirts ahead of Chouchou Namegabe's first visit to the United States in March 2009. T-Shirts were donated by American Eagle Outfitters.

What can your purchase achieve? Sales have raised over $1000, equipping AFEM with full radio equipment for three reporters, as well as several hard drives and a digital camera.

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Monday, February 7, 2011

Fighting Congo’s Ills With Education and an Army of Women

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