World Voice International funding gives disadvantaged women, from over 38 countries, a chance to attend educational media programs.
Affiliate Partners –
Women News Network – WNN
Women’s International news service
“When a woman speaks the world needs to listen.”
“When a woman speaks the world needs to listen,” says Lys Anzia, director for Women News Network – WNN. Many current global conditions for women today are filled with suffering and inequality. WNN strives to meet these complex issues by covering these stories through accurate and high standard journalism. Our team produces feature stories for international women’s news that educate the public, the international NGO community and UN agencies and affiliates worldwide. Today, WNN provides one of the few breaking news portals for women’s news worldwide.
Link to: Women News Network - WNN
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Freeplay Foundation
Free radio distribution.
Memunatu Alhassan has been part of a Freeplay radio distribution program
provided by the Carter Center (US). Through this initiative Memunatu
became very involved with radio technology in her community as a health
educator and radio advocate.
“Yesterday I did not know anything, but tomorrow, I will know everything”.
Yesterday I didn’t know anything, but tomorrow, I will know everything, said 60-year old grandmother Fatima Hussein, to Freeplay Foundation executive director, Kristine Pearson, as she took possession of her very first radio. With nine children and 12 grandchildren, Fatima says she wants to listen to health related and other information programmes that will help women like her who have little chance to learn more formally. Fatima, who is the head of a local women’s association, also wants to listen to news. She has never left her village, Chepkopia, in the semi-arid North Pokot district in the Rift Valley near the Ugandan border and so she is fascinated by the idea of information from the world beyond. She said she thought that the radio would help her and the other women in her group to understand much better what was going on in the rest of Kenya and the region.
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Internews
Journalism and broadcast radio training for women in over 38 countries
“Information Bestows Power. Lack of information can make people victims of disaster.” – Red Cross World Disasters Report 2005
Internews is the leading international trainer of female media professionals, providing media training to over 5,000 women in 38 countries in 2005 alone. In 2005 there were twice as many male reporters as female reporters worldwide, according to the 2005 Global Media Monitoring Project. In the same year, 54% of Internews trainees were women.Internews helps women get on the air and in the newsrooms in societies where their participation has been marginalized, allowing for reporting on all issues—not just women’s issues—to be done through the voices of women in that society. Issues of vital concern to women—child marriages in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the trafficking of women in Asia and Europe—are often ignored or covered only superficially by the media in their own countries. Across the globe, women journalists and media professionals work, many times under difficult circumstances, to bring light to the issues that affect all women. Internews media projects aim not only to open eyes to gender issues, but also to give voice to women so that they can change their lives for the better.
