Activities

Video and film training
The month of February provided the Mauritius Satellite Office with some particularly interesting learning opportunities. In the context of the upcoming Second Gender Justice and Local Government Summit Awards, video expert Kendy Mangra came to the office over two days to deliver intensive video training, as well as give tips for effective photography. The first section of his course was purely theoretical, providing staff with concepts such as the difference between portrait and landscape, panning and tilting, amongst others. The second and last section was entirely devoted to practice.

In-kind support
GL’s Mauritius printer offered to print flyers for free this past month. He must be very happy with our business! Director of Dragon Printing Jean-Marie Ming-Fa did 200 flyers for Gender Links.

WIP Training
Mary helped facilitate recent workshops organised by the Women in Politics section of WIN on 22 and 29 January for training of women in the Black River District Council. She worked with two women councillors:Florise Antoine, ex Deputy Chairperson of the BRDC and Sylvie Cerveaux, Chairperson of Bambous Village Council . They both shared stories about their experience in politics with the trainees.

Community work
Davinah had the opportunity to volunteer with the Mauriciens sans Frontières on 29 January. The project offers medical assistance to the children of the Anoka region. The first half of the day was allocated to arts and craft and the second was spent caring for the children and assisting with medical check-ups.