Second community station in Nepal goes to air

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’.
Community Radio Workshop Nepal
Twelve highly motivated Nepalis from different parts of the country have just completed a two-week forray into the wonderful world of community radio. For most, this was the first time they’d laid their hands on a computer let alone made a radio programme. Yet by the end of the workshop, all of them had successfully scripted, interviewed, recorded and edited their first radio programmes which were then broadcast via a Feba Chrysolite “suitcase studio”. » Continue Reading




