The AFP Foundation, a non-profit organization by the international news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP) is going to coach a maximum of 100 African female sports reporters, who represent a total of 21 countries. This effort is sponsored by the FIFA and will include courses in Dakar and in Nairobi, starting now until the spring of 2011. This training will lead up to the FIFA Women’s World Cup in Germany, which begins on June 26. Courses will be taught in many different languages including English, French, Arabic, Spanish and Portuguese. Sports journalists will teach these classes from AFP’s African bureaux or its Paris headquarters.
“I am pleased that the AFP Foundation is again able to train African journalists in partnership with FIFA. Several of the women who took part in the courses which we ran before the 2010 World Cup said they now felt stronger working alongside their male counterparts. This new programme is designed not only to enhance the skills of women journalists but also to raise their status in the African media – a noble goal which corresponds to the mission of our Foundation,” AFP Chairman Emmanuel Hoog said.
