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Kambisa! needs help...

Kambisa!'s got to struggle about two things:

- TIME

- MONEY

We're short on both of them, hence we need people to help us doing the work and people to help us surviving financially. We need people to advertise, to subscribe to the magazine or to suggest any kind of mutual relation (maybe you can advertise in our magazine and you can advertise us on your radiostation, maybe you've got an overloaded bankaccount and want to use it to its best...). However, we desperately want to remain independent, so anything coming with conditions we don't like will be refused.

On the work-part, we need:

- authors
there are some topics we want to discuss in our next issues, but we need people to do it.
For instance, we would like somebody to write a article on ones rights when dealing with the police, somebody to interview celebrities like Sista D. and somebody to follow the local courtcases, pick a victim and the suspects in her/his case interview both parties and make follow ups on them. These things can be written without professional journalistic skills as long as the writer clearly indicates his or her position and article is written, like all others, in a readable fashion. The editors of Kambisa! are willing to give you some hints or help when writing.
Beware! the author allways remains responsible for his or her own work: think about the potential consequences of publication before you start!
If you can't read or write, contact Kambisa! and we'll find somebody to help you out.

- translators
translating: mostly from one of the local languages into English for the magazine, later we might need things to be the other way round as well....

- storyfinders & transscribers
go out of Lusaka centre, find people who want to get their story published and help them getting it in Kambisa! ALLWAYs tell people their story will be used for publication before writing their story down and handing it over!!!!! We need their explicite permission as they remain responsible!!!! Make sure people understand the potential risks of publication under their true name before they agree. If necessary, we can publish things under a fake name, but this has to be indicated. Ask for name, age, sexe and profession/ societal status. Again...the editors of Kambisa! are willing to give you some hints or help when writing.

- representors
people to go the organizations, individuals, events etc. which could play part in Kambisa! (f.i. human rights awareness organisations, NGOCC etc) ask them if they know about it, what they think about it, want write a colum for it etc... do so, but do so AFTER consultating the rest of the Kambisa! – people, or at LEAST Klaartje. Though we all want to promote individual freedom, Kambisa! as a project should stand for something, we cant have people going round claiming to do so on our behalf without the rest knowing about it and supporting their stance.

- digitalizers
people who can type incoming paperwork into the computer for further editing

- editors
people who can reread other people's work, comment on it, correct sentences that are too long or confusing, the incorrect use of words etc. This job needs some skill - whether by nature or schooling doesn't matter, but we need to be able to rely on your work.

- correctors
correcting grammar & spelling, people who are fluent in written English

- visual artists
people who can help preparing the final texts for print, who can do the lay-out or help in making some nice illustrations to give some air to the texts or to lively up the cover

- marketeers
people to help promoting the magazine, to get some media attention, make posters etc. Anybody who can bring us a new advertiser, gets 10% of his first payment. See 'adverts'

- productioners
stappling, folding and sorting the sheets after they come from the printer, taking them there, collecting them, bringing them to EHC for cutting etc..

- distributors
making sure the magazine gets exposure in as many places as possible, signing 'contracts' with the ones selling or .... selling yourself! (commission 1000 kwacha per copy, this is the only paid job at the time of writing)

AND naturally, we need...

- IDEAS
if you have any ideas of people to interview, stories to be written, production to improve etc etc.... let us know!

Join Kambisa!
get in touch via klaartjejaspers@gmail.com, p.o. box 37657 in Lusaka or +260 (0) 97 845019