FOKUS Women is the magazine that reports on our work, support and accompaniment in Latin America, specifically in Colombia and Guatemala. It reaches its seventh issue with this edition.
Last year, we decided to review the issues published to date and, with the help of a communications expert, we took the opportunity to make the leap towards a truly digital magazine that would include various narrative genres.
Thus, through a training process, FOKUS partners in both countries participated with their programme or communications teams in a training process to learn about and recognise clearer, more enjoyable and assertive writing in different genres such as chronicles, photo reports, life stories, interviews, analysis articles and voices.
This issue, then, attempts to show the qualitative leap we are taking with our partners towards a form of communication that increasingly reflects the enormous work they are doing alongside women, young people and girls, as well as local communities and organisational processes, towards a fairer world for everyone.
The challenges remain, but we are confident that the various articles will enable readers to maintain the hope and strength to continue advancing with the necessary transformations for a world in which human dignity is the guiding light.
We are grateful to our partners who have been willing to walk with us on the paths of the magazine’s past and on those that are now opening up; in this experience, we all grow and become stronger.
We are also grateful for the contributions of our FOKUS director and our colleague who leads the FOKUS team in Africa. These have allowed us to provide a broader vision of FOKUS’ commitment to women, young people, girls and the LGBTQI+ population globally.