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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.

22 year-old Rashid Malekela knows broadcasting a radio show is not easy. Once a youth reporter himself, he now works as the lead producer of the youth show at Mwanza’s Metro FM in Tanzania.

Youth reporters have the unique ability to both share information & engage with community voices in the complex battle against deforestation.

Among the pressing issues in her community, Zambian youth reporter, Towela wanted her radio broadcasts to address the high rates of teenage pregnancy across Zambia.

On this Earth Day and every day, we celebrate brave young people like Tony who ask difficult questions, seek out solutions, and more than anything, understand the critical role they play in solving some of the world’s biggest problems.

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.

LGBTI+ advocacy group, Jeunialissime, uses the power of radio to combat discrimination and to get LGBTI+ youth in DRC speaking about their lives and their concerns.

Young reporters at Alex FM in the township of Alexandra, South Africa are working to build safer communities by speaking out against gun violence.

Before becoming a youth reporter at her local radio station in Kitwe, Zambia, Purity didn't have the confidence to challenge her family's behaviour towards its HIV positive members.

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.

Tanzanian young reporters are producing and broadcasting radio shows that illustrate how farming can lead to individual prosperity and country-wide economic growth.

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.

As part of the Unite4Climate Radio Initiative, Beatrice is using the power of radio to challenge mindsets and shift attitudes around environmental attitudes.

Our multi-country climate change and low-impact living project, Earth, Our Home, involves 50 local radio stations and 750 youth reporters in five countries, making it our largest project to date.