The Zimbabwean Women in Contemporary Culture Trust .
PO Box 2192 Harare, Zimbabwe

The Zimbabwean Women in Contemporary Culture Trust (ZWICCT) was formed in April 1991 in Harare, Zimbabwe. Its objectives are:

• To build a longterm network resource for Zimbabwean women working in contemporary culture. Currently the lack of an efficient networking system has led to a sense of isolation and demoralization among women cultural workers.
• To highlight the achievements of rural and urban cultural workers whose works have been ignored due to inadequate research facilities and the general social discouragement of cultural work among women in Zimbabwe.
• To strengthen regional networking among women cultural workers in order to facilitate the sharing of valuable experience.
• To highlight the visibility of role models for younger generations.
• To provide an important longterm resource for both academic and grassroots research - local, regional and international.
• To establish an archive of women cultural workers who have been at the forefront of cultural development in Zimbabwe but have never received the recognition nor the historical importance they deserve.
• To establish a library of international resources of women working in culture.

Its pilot project of researching and creating a database of all women working in contemporary culture in Zimbabwe is now being funded by SIDA Sweden since May 1991. Its second project of publishing an almanac for 1992 that will contain much of this information is planned to go into production in September 1992 depending on funds raised by the organization.

The ZWICCT would like to get in touch with other women's organizations to share information on possible donors and funders and to request publications specifically dealing with women working in contemporary culture issues, but also generally all publications produced by a feminist or all-women's collective.

Donations of feminist publications/magazines/ books(fiction and non-fiction)/videos/ (PAL or multi-system on VHS only) for the general library collection for women in Zimbabwe would be greatly appreciated.

For more information, write to:
Fiona Lloyd
Project Coordinator
Zimbabwean Women in Contemporary
Culture Trust
P.O.Box 2192
Harare, Zimbabwe

WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service
P.O. Box 5307
Kansas City, Missouri 64131 USA
Telefax: (816) 361-7161

WINGS is a group of women producing and providing radio stories about women to community radio networks worldwide.

WINGS is releasing a one-hour special via US public radio satellite (and on cassette) for International Women's Day on March 8, 1992. A major theme this year is the Environment. Women will rally in front of the United Nations in New York where the final preparatory meeting for June's Earth Summit in Brazil will be taking place.

WINGS International Women's Day Special -- Agenda for saving the earth -- will showcase a tapestry of women's voices, speaking as one voice on behalf of planetary survival.

For centuries, women's primary role in the environment has been "cleaning up the mess." But the resources poured into making the mess are greater and greater, and those devoted to cleanup are far too few. Many messes are irrevocable - whole parts of the earth are already lost to life forever.

Feeling the urgency of intervention, women from around the world have offered a plan to revise global priorities, placing continuation of life on earth at the top, above all other interests -- whether of military, business, science, or government. Their plan, "Women's Agenda 21," has been submitted as an addition to the "Agenda 21" to be discussed by UN members at the coming environment summit in Brazil.

To order more programming for International Women's Day and Women's History Month, request a catalog and prices.

Some environment issues covered by WINGS are:

27-91 Africa, Women and the Environment. Wangari Maathai. A lively speech by founder of Kenya's Greenbelt Movement, indicting the logic of development. Recorded by Sue Supriano.

5- 92 The Politics of Environmentalism. Nancy Barry, President, Women's World Banking, looks at environmentalism and how it disregards the interests of poor women.

6- 92 Global Food Security. Testimony by Ruth Bamela Engo-Tjega of Cameroon, at the World Women's Congress for a Healthy Planet. Engo-Tjega favors helping local food producers who in Africa are mainly women, and storing foods locally, not relying on a politicized world food market.

Call or write WINGS for more information on their programs.

Contacts of Organizations and Individuals Working on Women and Environment

Africa

Food Basket  Foundation, Inc.
c/o U.I.,P.O. Box 4127
Ibadan, Nigeria

Women's  Environmental Network Sudan 
University of Cezira 
P.O. Box 20 
Medini, Sudan

Pan African Women's Trade Union
7 Dartmouth Ave.Costwold Hills
Harare, Zimbabwe

ECOFORUM
P.O. Box 72461
Nairobi, Kenya

Association of African Women for Research and Development
B.P. 3304, Dakar
Senegal

Membro do Comite  Nacional da  Organizacas das Mulheres 
Angolanas, B
Alavalade, Luanda
Rep. Pop. Angola

Tanzania Media Women's Association (TAMWA)
P.O. Box 6143
Dar-es-Salaam
Tanzania

Women and and Ecology Development Project The Noor al Hussein Foundation
P.O. Box 926687
Amman, Jordan

Caroline Faray
P.O. Box 553
Amman, Jordan

Environmental Protection Council
P.O. Box M326, Accra
Ghana

Kenya Energy NGO (KENGO) 
P.O. Box 48197
Nairobi, Kenya

HAl
P.O. Box 168
Kilimanjaro Region
Tanzania

Action for Development
P.O. Box 1042
Port Louis
Angola Mauritius

Asia