Samuel Daka, ZAS
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| Mr. Henry Ngilazi during a Communications Training at St Dominic’s Major Seminary |
The three-day training was conducted in collaboration with Loyola Productions and Loyola Media, a Jesuit video production and television project in Lusaka, Zambia.
According to Ngilazi, tools such as recorders and notebook should help the Sisters to capture stories that are factual and help in the promotion of the dignity of the human person. To ensure that Sisters communicate effectively, he further said that workshops like this are the starting point. He added that the Sisters need to tell the stories on the different programs being undertaken so that their role is visible in the media.
Mr. Ngilazi who came as part of the team of facilitators from Loyola Media, s working with AMECEA to mentor the participants that included staff from the Zambia Association of Sisters and ZAS’s Catholic Care for Children projects in Zambia (CCCZ), a project funded by GHR Foundation of the United States of America.
The CCCZ project in the country is coordinated by Sr Catherine Mpolokoso of the Congregation of Little Servant of Mary Immaculate. Currently, GHR supports CCC projects in Uganda, Kenya and Zambia, and will soon begin to support the Sisters in child care under the Association of Women Religious in Malawi (AWRIM). The whole initiative of the CCC project is coordinated by the International Union of Superior Generals (UISG) in Rome with the support from GHR Foundation.
Other facilitators during the workshop included Father Patrick Mulemi SJ, Father Peter Banda SJ, and Kalizya Kakoma Chifunda, Victor Lushingilo Kasanga, Luis Mandiongo and Bernard Mberere who introduced the participants to Media Ethics, the Art of Photography, Pictures and online Newsletters and the art of interviewing.
According to Mr. Bernard Mberere who represented AMECEA, this training is part of the third phase of the AMECEA - CCC Social Communication mentorship which started in September 2020 virtually but was marred with connectivity challenges in the different countries receiving the mentorship.
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| ZAS CCCZ Project Coordinator Sr Catherine Mpolokoso leads the Mentees Participants in a group photo, at St Dominic’s Major Seminary in Lusaka |
At the end of the training, AMECEA through the partner engaged, Loyola Media House, hope to leave the Catholic Care for Children staff and project partners in the CARCFs as empowered CCC Movement Institutions that effectively create awareness and communicate their activities for their visibility
With the Church having its own media houses promoting the Catholic teaching, there is need for the sisters and the representatives of the CARCFs to utilize this space. This will be done through different pieces of writing that showcase the work being done by the sisters in promoting child care reforms that promote family life or children growing up in families. Therefore, it is important that the Catholic Sisters and affiliates remain true in the process of telling stories that impact the lives they serve as echoed by Mr. Ngilazi.