Eritrea: FTE's Dr Russom Mesfun Interviews : Selam Kidane

About Selam Kidane

Website: Release Eritrea | Stop Slavery in Eritrea
Facebook: Stop Slavery in Eritrea

Selam currently works as a policy advisor for local government in North London, with specialisms on Children’s safeguarding and Equality of opportunities. Previously she worked as a project consultant specializing in the care and protection of refugee children.

She is a trained psychotherapist and author of various training manuals, policy documents and practice guidance in the field of social care.

She is also a human rights activist and has been vocal in her opposition to the policies and practices of the regime in Eritrea for over a decade, through her writing and her participation in many initiatives.

• She is the director of Release Eritrea, a UK registered human rights charity focusing on religious persecution.
  
  
• She coordinates the activities of Arbi Harnet together with colleagues from all over the Eritrean diaspora, working with colleagues inside Eritrea.
  
  
• she was instrumental in the initiation of the Stop Slavery in Eritrean Campaign and continues to be active in it with a number of young Eritrean activists.

But most importantly she is a wife and a mother to three teenagers.

Join VoD

VoD is looking for highly motivated candidates to collect, draft, edit and present relevant news items from various sources exclusively but not limited to Eritrea and the rest of the Horn of Africa. Excellent writing skills in both English and Tigrinya, proficiency in using technology, and ability to scan social media are essential. The candidate should be an active listener, able to communicate with persons of interest, and share timely information with the public.

The Main objective of Voice Of Delina is to collect and disseminate economic, social and political developments pertaining to Eritrea and Eritreans at home and in the Erespora.

We are also determined to develop the media capacity by grooming the new generation of Eritreans to articulate the aspirations of our country.

We are particularly looking for candidates who are keenly interested to play an active role in helping foster peace and democracy in Eritrea.

VOLUNTEER INTERNSHIP OPENINGS

• Media Director/Program Coordinator
o manage the team
o prepare editorials
o make editorial decisions on programs to be broadcast
o edit other program contents

• Researchers
o research topics required for programming
o assist in drafting stories

• Writers and Editors
o draft a regular feature story
o assist in news preparation

• Anchor-Reader
o read program items
o assist in news preparation

• Sound Engineer
o arrange programs, add music and repackage programs for dispatch to the studio

• Translator from English into Arabic and Tigrinya (and, on a limited basis, Amharic)
o translate copy of stories into appropriate language for broadcast
o when necessary, read stories in correct language or dialect

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Please provide your personal CV, Skype ID, telephone number and best time to call you.