Deadline: 30 November, 2020
African Union/CIEFFA has announced a call for submissions for Africa Educates Her Creative Content.
African girls and women – students, human rights’ activists and teachers/educators – are encouraged to submit creative content showcasing their experiences learning/teaching girls during the Covid-19 related school closures and initiatives being taken by individuals, organisations and nations to ensure girls return to school once schools start reopening.
Covid-19 has affected more than 133 million female learners across the continent and through the Africa Educates Her campaign, the AU/CIEFFA seeks to highlight the experiences of learners at primary, secondary and tertiary education levels.
Benefits
- Selected submissions will be shared on the AU/CIEFFA Africa Educates Her blog and will form part of the Africa Educates Her documentary to be released at the end of 2020
Eligibility
- Open to all African Union member states
- Open to African girls and women who are students, human rights’ activists and teachers/educators
- Submissions can be in the form of videos, blogs articles, poetry, art, photography or music.
- Video must be between three and five minutes long and must be shot in landscape format
- Article must be between 600 and 1200 words maximum
- Article must be written in English, French, Portuguese or Swahili
- Written poetry should not exceed two pages and can be submitted in English, Swahili, French or Portuguese
- Images can be in full colour or in black and white but must not have filters, and must be saved in JPG format
To submit and for more information, click here.
Photo source: CIEFFA
