In Progress

Doreen Sam is the principal information officer of the Solomon Islands Women's Information Communication Network or SIWNET. She visited the Philippines last year to participate in a workshop on women's resource and information center organized by Isis International-Manila. Speaking with her, Irene Chia discovered how women are making good use of radio in the Solomons, a country composed of six main islands and a hundred smaller ones. Women make up a third of the Solomons' 300,000 population. Only 17 percent of women are literate.