Australian journalist Sue Aitkin demonstrates the principles of text layout as part of a UNICEF ...

Australian journalist Sue Aitkin demonstrates the principles of text layout as part of a UNICEF funded course she is running for the Cambodian Women's Association (CWA), whose magazine 'She Understands', is distributed nationwide through village networks. The association helps aid agencies identify where assistance is required for the many thousands of poverty stricken female headed households, whose numbers have dramatically increased since the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC)'s Repatriation Component returned many families from the Thai border camps. Owing to disease, war, starvation and violence, many families returned without an adult male member, leaving these families open to abuse and exploitation. Sue Aitkin had already worked in Cambodia in the late 1980s and in 1992, left her job at The Canberra Times to spend five years devoting herself to assist in rebuilding Cambodia's shattered media and journalism industry. She initiated the establishment of the Cambodian Communication Institute and has run training courses funded by the Australian International Development Assistance Bureau (AIDAB), UNICEF, UNSESCO and the Danish Aid Agency (Danaid).