A
national women forum being coordinated by Sainabou Dodou K. Njie, AIPS Women
Commission Member for the Gambia alongside the Gambian women body, will
scrutinise and set advanced practices for sports women writers in the media.
Set
for next month at the Alliance Franco Gambienne, which is being identified as
venue for the hosting of the high profile event, the forum targets more than
100 participants including 38 female journalists working in various media
houses from across the country.
The
African Women Sports Reporters Union (ASRU) the Gambian chapter, who honoured
Madam Sainabou Dodou K. Njie as their honorary president at a general congress
in 2012 headed by GRTS Rohey Bittaye, was founded in 2009 and is expecting to
the staging of the first national forum for them.
Asru
is answerable to the continental body headed by Ivory Coast Aya Elisabeth Goli
where Sainabou is serving as their 3rd vice president for the Gambia are key partners
of AIPS where both Goli and Sainabou at the women commission headed by Laima
Stenhoff of Luthunia.
The
Banjul forum will forward reports to the AIPS Women Commission as part of the
global catelogue of women sports journalists’ activities for the AIPS.
The
six-member women commissioner is based on collective as well as joint efforts
by its members, which is ensured through networking at various levels.
The
Gambia women sports journalists’ entity is operating alongside the Sports
Journalists Association of The Gambia headed by Musa Sise, who is always
supporting our events.
Stakeholders
from all sporting disciplines are invited together with two prominent women
sports journalists from Bahrain and Senegal. The forum is part of efforts to
promote the movement of women sports journalism in the country.
