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Name of Organization: Association of Media Women in Kenya (AMWIK) Country: Kenya Project Title: "Community radio listening groups to create awareness towards social mobilization against use of child labor in commercial agriculture in Kiambu and fishing farming in Kisumu districts" Project Timeframe: 14 months (July 2006 to August 2007) Location of Project: in Kiambu and fishing farming in Kisumu districts Budget Amount: $69,998 (Exchange rate US$=Kshs72) NGO contact and website: Pamela Mburia, Coordinator, info@amwik.org Jane Thuo, Programmes Manager Phone: +254 020 246064 Fax: +254 020 247646 3rd Floor, Hughes Building, Muindi Mbingu Street, Kenyatta Avenue Nairobi, Kenya Postal code: 10327, 00100 Project's Primary Objective: To raise awareness and social mobilization against child labor in the commercial agriculture and fishing sector and promote completion of basic primary education and vocational training in two districts in Kenya. Description of Organization: The Association of Media Women in Kenya (AMWIK) is a national media association that has been working in the country since 1982 in media, gender, research, training, advocacy and information dissemination. The Association has a national representation drawing members from women professionals in print and electronic, public relations and advertising fields.AMWIK is a non-profit organization that harnesses the competences of its members to give visibility to issues of concern to the society. AMWIK's challenge is to ensure that information on specific issues is disseminated widely to enable communities to make informed choices. AMWIK's Vision: AMWIK envisages a society, in which the media embraces and promotes gender equity, to improve the lives of women and children for the full enjoyment of their human rights Mission statement: AMWIK promotes an informed society through transformation of the media to enhance the status of women and children in Kenya. AWMIK has been implementing ILO-IPEC action programmes since 2003. It has been offering media support to partners in the programme in an effort to create public awareness and educate them on the adverse effects of child labour to the society. The media in Kenya has joined in the efforts and there is a notable increase in coverage of child labour partly due to the sensitisation workshops AMWIK has held for the media practitioners to demystify the issue and solicit their partnership in alleviating the vice. The Association has previously implemented a radio listening project programmes with specific messages for a select community which registered great impact and social action by the group and therefore intends to use the same approach in this programme. Description of Project funded by CIRCLE: Under this project, the Association of Media Women in Kenya is proposing to disseminate recorded children’s radio programs covering diverse issues on child labor. The programs will be simplified for them to understand and disseminated to the children through the schools’ children’s right clubs. These clubs already exist in select schools and in the districts that AMWIK intends to work. Also, radio programs will be produced for the various community committees comprising teachers, parents and members of the community tackling issues of child labor for awareness creation. The target proposed project focuses on two districts, Kiambu and Kisumu, where child labor in the commercial agriculture and fishing industry are prevalent. The main objective of the project is to combat child labor in these districts through awareness raising and encourage working children to be identified and enrolled back to schools or for vocational training. The proposed project aims to create community based child labor monitoring systems, including linking identified children to partner organizations where they can receive counseling and other services to help them join and remain in school. Specific objectives include:
Project Targets (Common Indicators): Enrollment: 200 children ages 8-15 withdrawn from child labor and entered in alternatives to basic education. 30% increase in enrollment in target schools and vocational centers Persistence: 200 at risk children retained in schools Transition: Completion: |
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CIRCLE Project NGO Partners in Africa