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Meet the winners below:
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Janeth Leonard from Tanzania Broadcasting Corporation. |
Hilda Phoya from Mlimani Media, Tanzania. |
Hilda Phoya from Mlimani Media, Tanzania. |
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Janeth Leonard is a Tanzanian television producer for Tanzania Broadcasting Corporation. She produced a 15 minutes documentary on seaweed farming in Zanzibar. It is a cash crop cultivated by more than 25,000 in Zanzibar whereby more than 90 percent are women. It has been a norm in Tanzania to recognise and appreciate men’s contribution to economic development than that of a woman. Click here to view the PowerPoint presentation
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Hilda Phoya is a Tanzanian News Anchor and Reporter for Mlimani Media. She produced a story about participation of women in the agricultural sector. Phoya believes that after the coverage, women would not be scared to step up and speak on the works they would want to do especially the jobs that are usually done by men that seem to have benefit men more than women. |
Hilda Phoya is a Tanzanian News Anchor and Reporter for Mlimani Media. She produced a story about women in economics. Phoya noted that these days there are lot of businesses that are operating online therefore it is about how technology has contributed to various business opportunities especially for women. She produced this particular story because most of women have engaged themselves in these online businesses were they sell their items like clothes, shoes and garments. This is enabled due to technology access that we currently have. |
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Godfrey Ismaely from majira Media, Tanzania |
Alex Kachelewa from Tumaini Media, Tanzania |
Lydia Shekighenda from The Daily News, Tanzania. |
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Godfrey Ismaely is a Tanzanian News Reporter. He produced an article which focused on how women’s participation in the Organic Farming. Ismaely noted that women are equal to economic resources, as well as acquisition of ownership and land control byother types of property, financial services, heritage and natural resources, subject to national legislation. Click here to view the PowerPoint presentation
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Alex Kachelewa is a Tanzanian journalist who works for Tumaini Media, which is a community newspaper. He wrote a story about human trafficking in Tanzania, which is increasing day to day, and many girls who are supposed to be in schools, are working as domestic workers, in several areas. |
Lydia Shekighenda is a Tanzanian Journalist who works for Tanzania Standard Newspaper (Daily News). She produced an article that focused on the rights of women to participate in any economic activities to earn the living without being discriminated. She noted how the country laws and policies prohibit gender related discrimination and spell equal opportunities for both women and men. Shekighenda produced the article to push for enforcement of legislations that governed women’s rights in participating in economic activities and show their contributions in the growth of the country economy. |
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Najjat Omar from CG FM Radio, Tanzania |
Adam Hhando from CG FM Radio, Tanzania |
Alex Mchomvu from Radio Kwizera, Tanzania. |
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Najjat Omar is a radio presenter at CG FM Radio in Tanzania. She has done a documentary on rape issue and early pregnancy. She was motivated by the early forced marriages of the young girls and the rape culture in the village. She believes that this documentary will help to end all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere in the world, especially in the SADC countries. |
Adam Hhando is an assistant chief editor at CG FM Radio in Tanzania. Hhando produce a documentary on the challenges faced by widows after death of their husbands in Urambo District in Tabora Region-Tanzania. He discovered that most of widows were forced to leave their homeland because in laws or other relatives think that they do not have the right to own property in the society. |
Alex Mchomvu is a Senior Production Officer at Radio Kwizera. He produced the story about a common practice of the Hangaza tribe, which is women resuming to their responsibilities shortly after giving birth. Mchomvu produced this story because he was moved to create a change and to combat the inhumanity experienced by women in his own capacity as a community journalist. |
