Featured Programs
Maisha Yetu: Media Campaign for Our Lives
In 2002, working with a $1.5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the International Women’s Media Foundation created the Maisha Yetu project to enhance the quality and consistency of reporting on HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria in Africa. Maisha Yetu was created to give African media the means to become more responsive to their communities and to magnify their efforts in reporting on health. Maisha Yetu means “Our Lives” in Swahili
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Program Initiatives -- Asia
The Empowering Women in the News Media program was held in the Philippines in 1998. Some 40 women journalists from 18 countries in Asia and the Pacific gathered to consider the image of women in the media, share their experiences with harassment and discrimination, and discuss how to achieve leadership positions and mentor other women.
The conference also covered the images of women in the media in different Asian
countries, the legal remedies available for women facing discrimination and
the possibilities of learning from each other's experiences.