Flow Communications has grown its relationship with the BritishCouncil in Africa by signing a contract to produce news stories for its website: www.britishcouncil.org/africa.
Several news stories have already been published, and cover British Council events in countries such as Botswana, Tanzania, South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
The British Council is an organisation which engenders cultural relations and promotes educational opportunities in the United Kingdom globally. Apart from assisting individuals who would like to work or study in the UK, the British Council also runs several arts, science and leadership initiatives. It operates in 109 countries worldwide, including 23 in Africa.
Flow is also involved in helping the British Council in Africa with website content development and information management.
Flow journalist Jackie Bischof says the relationship between British Council and Flow Communications is an exciting one. “The British Council runs the most amazing projects and initiatives, but this wasn’t reflected on their website to a large extent. Flow will be researching the stories, contacting the Africa offices and writing about the projects. In this way, the website can reflect the personality of the British Council, and the type of work it does in Africa,” she says.
“I love writing for the British Council because you get to interact with people from all walks of life, people who are making a difference in their communities,the African continent and globally, says Miliswa Sitshwele, another Flow journalist.
Kate Thompson also a Flow journalist, says, “Working on British Council news is exciting. You get to write positive, interesting stories about real people and the good that is happening in Africa today.”
Read some of the stories Flow has written so far on the British Council’s climate security strategy for Africa, the Power in the Voice campaign and the Global Xchange volunteer programme in the website’s News in Africa Section.