MEDIANE Media in Europe for Diversity Inclusiveness Valentina ACAVA - SPAIN FREELANCE EEMPS
[email protected] /valentinammaka.blogspot.com APPLICANT PERSONAL BIOGRAPHY PROFILE I was born in Rome and grew up in South Africa. I've been living between Europe, South Africa , Kenya and Tanzania. I'm a journalist, writer and intercultural facilitator.. I've published seven books in Italy from children, young adult, novels, drama and poetry. My literary work as been praised for the capacity to promote diversity in a multicultural context. As a journalist I've been freelancing from Mauritania, South Africa, Kenya for many years covering different kind of events (1994 South African Elections - Child Labour Mauritania - Post Election 2007 Kenya etc...), also as a freelance I've been collaborating with different magazines on post colonial literature (Africa, India) and on immigration. I'm the founder of the Gugu Women Lab which is a collective of women (south african and immigrant) with whom I worked during 2011-2012 to a writing project aimed to promote human rights. Out of this experience a play titled THE CUT - LO STRAPPO has been released and it is about Female Genital Mutilation. I'm currently promoting this owrk in Europe to sensitize people, media and institutions on this very urgent theme through the language of creativity. The project will be soon sponsored by Amnesty INternational. I worked in schools in Italy, South Africa, Kenya as a facilitator in intercultural programmes, organizing workshops, readings, courses. I worked as a facilitator with immigrants and refugees especially in Kenya and South Africa with whom I used social theatre and writing as a tool towards the identity process.