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ProjectsThis section lets you know what Girls’Net has been up to. We report on the outcomes of training programmes, conferences and workshops attended and also on the activities of the Girls’Net project coordinator. This is where you will discover what we are doing in between our face-to-face interaction with you and with each other. Check out the Project manager's blog (link on the left) - where Lerato and other GirlsNet staff keep you up-to-date on activities, thoughts and highlights. Here are a few Highlights from our projects:
This Cell-C initiative was taken up by Gauteng Girls Club - who took to the streets to interview women who work hard supporting their families by working in the informal sector as hawkers. Read more here.
Girls are always adding information, from their perspectives - all the sections on this website called "you write" are by girls, as well as the "fun stuff" which includes poetry, stories and reviews.
The Digital Audio Production Project began as a partnership between The South African Girl-Child Alliance (SAGCA) and UNICEF South Africa who commissioned Women’sNet to deliver digital audio training to girls between the ages of 12-16. The pilot project drew on girls from Limpopo province and took place in 2002. This was the first in a series of digital audio training programmes targeted at girls in South Africa’s nine provinces. The digital audio training is intended to yield “radio-ready spots” produced by the girls, in which they critically reflect on their experiences of gender discrimination in school, their homes, and their communities at large. In other words, girls produce audio clips that can be used by radio stations (both community and commercial) which show their specific experiences in relation to any given subject. The training literally gets girls’ voices heard! Contact Lerato Legoabe if you would like to receive a copy of the CD produced through the training. Images and photographs tell stories without words. They also communicate ideas, values and messages. In June and July 2005, Girls’Net and The Market Photo Workshop in Newtown, Johannesburg ran a project with girls between the ages of 11-18 through which they were taught basic photography and visual literacy skills. The girls who participated were members of Girls’Net in the Eastern Cape district of Mount Ayliff. The objectives of the programme were to:
The girls’ took a series of photographs which were exhibited under the theme “Journey of a girl through her village”. The exhibition was unveiled at a closing ceremony organised by the Alfred Nzo Municipality to mark National Women’s Month. The Alfred Nzo Municipality were a critical partner in this project. Check out the Gallery!
"Fill the Gap", Youth and ICT Conference in Amsterdam in 2004.
Gauteng GirlsNet members participated in the South African Women in Dialogue (SAWID) conference held in July 2005 at the University of Pretoria. SAWID is a unique forum that was initiated by Mrs Zanele Mbeki (who is its patron) to provide a platform for ongoing dialogue among South African women to establish a common agenda for women’s development. SAWID is a forum for knowledge sharing on development issues in the country and continent. The forum makes space for young women too! The Youth South African Women in Dialogue (Y-SAWID), which emerged as a result of a two–year inter-generational discussion, is actively working to ensure that young women and girls are included national and continental developmental discussions that affect them.
Girls’Net project coordinator, Lerato Legoabe, attended the Global Young Women’s Forum from Februray 13th to 23rd. The conference looked at how women are participating in the law changing processes in four countries: South Africa, Rwanda, Afghanistan and Canada. Other useful links:
From the 22nd to 24th of November 2006, Women’sNet, in partnership with the Centre for Applied Legal Studies at Wits University and the University of Victoria - Canada - International Human Rights Project, will be hosting a workshop and a two day conference with the theme "Putting Feminism On the Agenda”. The focus of the conference is to explore ways of promoting women’s and girl’s rights in South Africa. |
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