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Text Messaging Used to Report Violence Against African Women

According to Pambazuka News:

"The UmNyango Project will use SMS technology for rural women and men to access information to, and report incidences of violence against women and children, as well as violations of women’s right to land.

This initiative will be tested out in Dondotha, KwaDlangezwa, KwaGcwensa, Limehill and Muden, and if successful, will be rolled out on a wider scale.

As well as using text messaging, the project will enable women in these areas to produce their own radio programmes which will be made available to local radio stations, as well as being distributed over the internet as ‘podcasts’".

You can read the rest of the story here

via WITNESS' Video Hub blog

Image credit: "SMS . . ." by Dat Nguyen.

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