Kisumu It is a busy morning and Sarah Odero can be seen rummaging through dustbins placed outside salons across Kisumu City located in Western Kenya. The mother of four collects several pieces of synthetic waste hair waste and straightens them before lining them into a machine. After doing her chores, Sarah spends the better part…
Bunso One cold Tuesday morning in the heart of the Eastern Region of Ghana, Bunso Junction, we meet Amina Yakobo who wants to curve a different path in the charcoal business. The price of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) has experienced a 5 per cent adjustment recently pushing it to ¢0.14 (below $1) per kilogram on…
For Tsitsi Chimwai, a 35-year-old mother of two from the Chief Neromwe area in Chiredzi District in Masvingo Province, gathering firewood for her family is a demanding task as nearby trees have been cut down hence she and other women walk as far as five kilometres. Zimbabwe being a low-middle class economy, has not yet…
Akwa Ibom At a corner of the busy road leading to Ibaka fish beach in Mbo Local Government Area (LGA) of Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria, Ms Mary Edet is seen offloading over 200 ice blocks from a vehicle into her mini-cool room, housing over six freezers to preserve her sea-foods for buyers later that evening….
Betty Sunday is a sad woman. She sits in silence as she ponders over reports she has heard from local radio stations. She is wondering what is likely to happen as an outcome of the Jonglei Canal that the government plans to resume digging. According to Ms Sunday who is also a woman representative, these…
Khartoum Khartoum is choking on waste to an extent that as a journalist, I found it hard to concentrate on one environmental issue and leave the others. If we are not talking about pollution and waste crisis, then it is illegal logging or erratic power and water supplies. All of these have adversely affected women…
Introducing Bokani King, a multi-skilled and enterprising journalist who has just joined Women in News (WIN) as their new Chairperson. AWiM News got to hear first-hand about her journey as a female journalist and the vast ideas she plans to implement in her new position to achieve gender equality in the media. — In a…
Meet Sarah Sedky, an Egyptian-Dutch woman who knows all about the power of social media. She is also a dyslexia activist who speaks English, Arabic, and Dutch- which probably comes in handy as the founder of Dyslexia Community Worldwide. “I knew I wanted to help other dyslexics when I moved back to Egypt at the…
It’s a lazy Saturday afternoon. You flip through TV channels while having lunch, drumming your fingers impatiently while you wait for the barrage of ads to cease. Egyptian TV offers plenty of advertisements but little range. Glamorous women sport-chic styles and glowing skin, but you are struck by something else. They are all skinny and…
As days turn into months, months into years and years into decades, the clamour for equal participation of both male and female gender in all sectors continues to increase. This clamour is seen to be more rampant among women who are always seen playing the gender card on issues and situations where they do not…
