Association of Media Women In Kenya

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Welcome to AMWIK

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The Association of Media Women in Kenya ( AMWIK )is a national media Association established in 1983 and registered under the Societies Act as a non-profit membership organisation for women journalists from the print, electronic media and other areas of communication. The Association was founded prior to the United Nation’s Third World Women's Conference held in Nairobi in 1985 by women in middle and senior management levels in the media. Its membership comprises employees of various media houses, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and other institutions as well as independent content producers.

Amwik Offers Support To Children Vulnerable To Joining The Worst Forms Of Child Labour

alt AMWIK will this week provide uniforms and school books to 200 boys and girls vulnerable to worst forms of child labour. AMWIK Executive Director Jane Thuo will on Wednesday, 25 March 2009 distribute support materials to children in seven schools in Kwale district.

AMWIK with support from International Labour Organisation- International Programme for the Elimination of Child Labour (ILO-IPEC) has been involved in media campaigns against child labour in Kenya for the last five years with the aim of eliminating the worst forms of child labour in the country.

Community Radio Listening Groups for Awareness Creation and Social Mobilization

alt AMWIK has adopted the concept of community radio listening groups to mobilize community action for social transformation and development. AMWIK focuses on the marginalized parts of Kenya and has a bias to women groups in the pastoral communities especially in the North eastern province of Kenya where infrastructural development is poorest, including access to information and media. In addition these also record the highest statistics of low literacy levels and women are still subjected to negative cultural practices such as female genital mutilation and early marriage.