By Fredrick Nzwili, ENInews In Sierra Leone, a West African country still recovering from civil war, a church-operated radio station is about to hit the airwaves with messages of peace and reconciliation. Radio Shalom, project of the Council of Churches of...
By Maria Teresa Aveggio, Programme Manager “We realised that the only means of communication, the only way to be able to say the things that happened to us, was the radio.” With these words one of the presenters of Voices through Time introduces a new...
By Alana Green, WACC volunteer In Baijnath, India, WACC project partner the Himalaya Trust has successfully concluded its community radio project. Activities included three major training workshops and supplementary training for locals over a 12-month period. The Himalaya Trust was set up in...
By Maria Teresa Aveggio, Programme Manager Communication lies at the core of the increasing social and political ‘protagonism’ of Latin-America’s Indigenous People. This is one of the conclusions of a research on ‘Indigenous communication as a driving force for social change’ (www.servindi.org/pdf/ALAIC_comunicaciónindigena2012.pdf Spanish only)...
An Editorial of the new edition of the WACC-Pacific regional newsletter: Voice of the Pacific In the Pacific Island region the strategic priority of WACC “Strengthened public voices and participation of poor, marginalized, excluded and dispossessed people and communities in communication,” resonates as...