Graça Machel launches Pan African Women in Media Network

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Graça Machel launches Pan African Women in Media Network

3:06 CAT | 29 Sep 2016

In File Club of Mozambique / Graça Machel

Mozambican social activist Graça Machel has launched a media project in an effort to transform the narrative and negative perceptions of African women and children.

Machel recently established a first of its kind Pan African Women in Media Network (WIMN). The network of women journalists will work in conjunction with the Graça Machel Trust.

“The Graça Machel Trust’s women’s rights program is based on our aim to multiply the faces and amplify the voices of women, especially in areas where they are underrepresented,” said Machel, who is also the founder of the Foundation for Community Development in Mozambique.

“Through our women’s networks in agribusiness, finance and ‘Women Creating Wealth,’ we foster links and build a critical mass of highly-qualified and active women across sectors and professions who can work collectively to influence, shape and drive the socio-economic policies to ensure that they achieve economic prosperity and social change.”

The Graça Machel Trust works across the African continent to amplify women’s movements, influence governance, and advocate for the protection of children’s rights and dignity.

The Trust consolidates the work of Machel and seeks to build on her legacy by inspiring the younger generation to take up new challenges and create societies that value and care about social justice, reported
Atlanta Black Star.

Machel, who is the only woman in history to have been first lady of two separate republics, serving as the First Lady of Mozambique from 1975 to 1986 and the First Lady of South Africa from 1998 to 1999, noted that the primary mission is to amplify the voices of women’s movements, influence governance and promote women’s leadership and contributions in the economic, social, and political development of Africa.

The Trust also advocates for the protection of children’s rights and dignity.

Recognising the crucial role that media plays in shaping societal attitudes, Machel said it’s important that women are at the centre of transformation within the media landscape.

Source: The Voice Online