[UgaBYTES] Join EASSI Women's Day SMS Campaign

[Dorothy Okello]

Join EASSI Women's Day SMS Campaign
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The Eastern African Sub-regional Support Initiative for the 
Advancement of Women (EASSI) is conducting a massive SMS Women's Day 
campaign. EASSI is a woman's organisation that monitors the 
commitments Governments in the Eastern African countries have made to 
advancing women's concerns. The SMS campaign reflects on the girl 
child in Kenya and the region that has suffered unbearable atrocities 
as a result of the post-election violence. We stand together with her 
and others and offer our support to Kenya and the region for peace 
and political progress.

If you are interested in participating in the SMS Campaign, you will 
receive an SMS everyday from 25th February 2008 to 14th March 2008 on 
your mobile phone. These days were chosen specifically because they 
fall before and after 8th March, Women's Day. The SMS messages will 
be daily updates of the peace progress and our own affirmations and 
convictions concerning the girl child in Kenya.



How to participate
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Register your mobile number to receive the SMSs that will be sent out 
during the SMS Campaign. In order to register, send your Name, 
Gender, Organisation, Country, and Mobile Number by email to 
nambozo at eassi.org or by SMS to +256 78 2764335. Please submit your 
mobile numbers beginning with the country code, e.g, 256 78 2764335 
for numbers in Uganda.

For more information and/or to participate, please send a note to 
nambozo at eassi.org.

The SMS Campaign is being conducted with technical support from Women 
of Uganda Network (WOUGNET - www.wougnet.org) whose mission is to 
promote and support the use of ICTs by women and women organisations 
in Uganda, so that they can take advantage of the opportunities 
presented by ICTs in order to effectively address national and local 
problems of sustainable development.



About EASSI
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EASSI is a woman's organisation that monitors the commitments that 
Governments in the Eastern African countries have made to advancing 
women's concerns. The Eastern African countries are: Burundi, 
Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda.

EASSI's vision is a society where all enjoy gender equality, social 
justice, peace and development. The goal is to catalyse national, 
regional and international processes on critical areas of concern in 
order to make concrete meaningful changes for women.

For more information on EASSI, please visit our website at http://www.eassi.org



For more information on the SMS campaign
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For further information about this SMS Campaign, please contact:

Beverley Nambozo Senguiyunva
Programme Officer - Communications and Networking
The East African Sub-regional Support Initiative for The Advancement 
of Women (EASSI)
Plot 87 Bukoto-Ntinda Road
P. O. Box 24965
Kampala, Uganda
Tel: 256-41-285163, 285194
Fax: 256-41-285306
E-mail: nambozo at eassi.org / eassi at eassi.org
Web: http://www.eassi.org
Blog: www.eassi.wordpress.com