Since 2010, the Children’s Radio Foundation has been helping radio stations get listeners across Africa speaking about HIV/AIDS & Ebola. Our youth reporters know how to address misinformation & stigma. Help them address vaccine hesitancy this Giving Tuesday.
In episode three, a river in Alexandra township tells the story of the environmental and systemic challenges facing informal settlements across South Africa.
In episode two, we meet a young climate activist from the Eastern Cape of South Africa with a particular interest in renewable energy solutions.
In the first of a series of three mini-podcast episodes, youth explore the impacts of climate change in their communities and ways to raise more awareness.
Monde meets the Vibrant Youth Reporters once a week to help them produce and broadcast radio shows on issues that impact their lives and community.
The Vibrant Youth reporters have spent the last two years using radio to raise awareness about gun violence, to advocate for a safer community, to build partnerships, and to start conversations about healing and togetherness in the township of KwaMashu.
Young reporters at Alex FM in the township of Alexandra, South Africa are working to build safer communities by speaking out against gun violence.
I WAS UNHAPPY. I felt the problem was surely mine. I lost myself. Time and time again. I cried myself to sleep. I couldn’t share with my family and friends. Here I lie a broken mind, soul and heart. So enclosed against the wall. So many thoughts. I had to escape them all.
The Breaking New Ground youth reporters use their radio shows to get their community talking about HIV, and to encourage young people to accept their HIV status and take ownership of their health.