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PRESS RELEASE July 22nd 2008 First Lango Forum on e-Agriculture: Integrating innovative ICTs and Information Communication Management techniques in Agricultural and Rural Development Women of Uganda Network and Kubere Information Centre (KIC), with support of the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP – EU (CTA) and Hivos, will hold the first Lango Forum on e-Agriculture in Apac district on 31st July 2008. The forum will take place in Omodi Hostel located in Apac town. The purpose of the forum is to sensitize rural women and the community at large on the role of ICTs in rural and agricultural development. Forum participants will share knowledge on how ICTs have been or could be applied in agriculture and rural development within the region, highlighting both the benefits and the challenges. Participants will include farmers, district leaders, civil society organisations from Apac, Gulu, Lira, and Oyam districts, and stakeholders from other areas of Uganda. |
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Have you or your organization recently produced a book on women and socio-economic and political change in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean and Central and Eastern Europe? Are you in interested in marketing and selling your publication? Women, Ink., a project of the International Women' Tribune Centre, is urgently seeking new publications about various gender and development issues – with a special focus on those produced in the last three years by small independent and women's presses and information-producing groups in the Global South. Both practical and academic, the Women, Ink. collection seeks books on various aspects of gender and development, including women's human rights; conflict and peace processes; training; economics and globalization; health, sexuality and reproductive rights; political process; information communication; policy and political process an women organizing. Please visit www.womenink.org to explore the collection further.
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ACFODE is organizing a public dialogue scheduled to take place on 16th July 2008 starting at 2.00 PM at Hotel Equatoria, Equator Hall. The major objective of the dialogue is to share various legislations related to Violence Against Women and Girls (VAW/G) and HIV/AIDS and the gaps therein, and to lay strategies for advocating for improved legal framework to address and prevent VAW/G and HIV/AIDS. |
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FEMRITE - Uganda Women Writers Association - PRESS RELEASE The ordinary story is left unwritten and if written it is not read. The nineth edition of FEMRITE’s annual week of literary activities scheduled to take place 14th – 18th July 2008 explores the theme “Writing the Unfamiliar Story”. The week will start off with a Breakfast Meeting on July 14th, 2008, where writers, policy makers, lecturers and students will talk about “Harnessing Uganda's Literary Heritage”. The Director of the Ministry of Education, Dr. Mbabazi will be the Guest of Honour at the event. On the same day, primary school pupils and secondary school students will have a chance of meeting prize-winning and published Ugandan writers at unique sessions that will be held at the FEMRITE offices on Kira Road Plot 147. |
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A dog is needed urgently by women in Apac district. A dog that can go to the garden and farm, work to earn income to look after the family, cater for school fees and clothing for children, for medical care, and, in its excellent form probably help the women in doing household chores. Many women in Apac are willing to offer anything to get such a dog. Margaret Olero, 46, is looking for a saviour in such a dog. Olero is chocking with the burden of looking after her 7 children, her husband, in addition to undertaking all the daily domestic chores, while her husband leaves everything to her as he has done for the past 24 years. Olero says her husband, just like many in Aminamong village, Akokoro sub-county in Apac is waiting for a dog that can work (go to the garden and earn money for the family) before he can get convinced to start working for himself and family. "He always refers me to a popular saying by many men in this place that how can he work when dogs still eat free food. When I ask him how he expects me to get food and meet all family needs without his help, he asks me whether he is not more valuable than a dog which eats every day despite not working," Olero says.
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