The International Women’s Media Foundation is now accepting applications for the 2010-11 Elizabeth Neuffer Fellowship, which is open to women journalists focusing on human rights and social justice.
Named for the 1998 IWMF Courage in Journalism Award winner and Boston Globe correspondent who was killed in Iraq in May 2003, the fellowship allows one woman journalist to spend an academic year in a tailored program with access to Boston-area universities as well as the Boston Globe and The New York Times.
Applications will be accepted until April 9, 2010, and the fellowship will run from September 2010 – May 2011.
Molly Mukasa supplements her family’s earnings in Uganda in a way some may deem unlikely: She raises pigs.
“While several women in the trading centre burden their husbands for resources, to me, money is not a concern anymore,” Mukasa told Joseph Miti, a journalist for Uganda’s The Daily Monitor, who reported this story.
Miti’s story on Mukasa and other women pig farmers came out of the International Women’s Media Foundation initiative, Reporting on Women and Agriculture: Africa. The IWMF has partnered with The Daily Monitor for the project, which trains journalists in effectively covering agriculture and the role of women within agriculture and rural development.
Miti shared with the IWMF how he found the story about women pig farmers.
