Community radio can influence positive change in communities.  After intensive training,  health workers in Afghanistan are empowered to tackle issues such as poverty, gender inequality,  nutrition and health head on, by using the power of the media to promote awareness, advocate for change and influence a new kind of thinking.

Here’s a snapshot of the work we’ve been involved in in Dadeldura, Nepal. A remote mountainous region where we work in partnership with Human Development & Community Services to provide a community FM station, seeking to tackle the needs and problems in the region.

Today we were working at Heartline, a small community radio station serving the community of Tulikup on Bali, the second most populated island in the Republic of Indonesia.  The station is having a positive impact on the health and social needs of the community with its effective communication strategy for health and social development.  

http://www.heartline.co.id/

Good news from Nepal! Our community radio station in Okhaldunga is now on air for six hours a day.

Now Okhaldunga is linked into a network of community radio broadcasters in Nepal by satellite. Listeners to Aafno FM will now be able to hear news of Nepal through the Community Information Network. We will also soon be able to carry news from the BBC Nepali service which is repackaged for the local audience.

By connecting the 105 community radio stations of Nepal into a single satellite network, the Community Information Network (CIN) provides an opportunity for other stations to share information and dialogue.

Working together with HDCS on the CoRIN Project (Community Radio Initiative in Nepal), Co-ordinator Vijay believes the news will be a big attraction and draw in listeners.

With some of the highest mountains in the world in Nepal, local community radio stations are often located in remote areas. So opportunities for receiving or sharing information are limited. The internet is not widely available.

Feba’s first radio station in Dadeldhura is closely linked to the local hospital, and both there and in Okhaldunga, broadcasting on health awareness issues is a key part of the community radio service.

News from Bob in Okhaldunga (Everest region of Nepal) is that our second partnership radio station “Aafno FM” Station in Okhuldunga, has gone live for the first time. Click here to see Bob’s slideshow.

The first station was opened in June 2008.  See ‘History is made as Dadeldhura gets first radio station’.