Join in the celebration across the airwaves on 13 February 2018
Radio is a vital tool in the work of the Red Cross and Red Crescent. It is a medium that is used worldwide, dynamic and engaging in nature, allowing us to communicate and reach a wide audience. Aside from using radio in coordinating response during a disaster and sharing life-saving, actionable and useful information with communities, we work with radio as a platform to listen and provide channels for open discussions and feedback. We want to bring communities together and use their diverse voices to influence positive change and enable them to define their own solutions together.
World Radio Day – 13 February – is a chance to highlight some of the ways we are using this old technology to do new things.
Radio and the Red Cross and Red Crescent
Radio is a powerful tool that helps inform, transform and unite us. In a health emergency, it can also become a lifeline. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo)’s worst Ebola outbreak in history, radio is being used to engage communities ab …
Stories and photos collected by Aija Kuparinen | Written by Corrie Butler You can’t help but draw nearer to the beckoning drum base of music in the distance and bellowing laughter echoing through the streets. Coming closer, you can see people dancing …
Written by Millicent WANGUI Even in the age of online media, radio has remained the medium that reaches the widest audience in Africa. This makes radio a critical tool for our work at the Red Cross and Red Crescent. It links us with the rural and remot …
When the Ebola virus disease erupted in Guinea in December 2013 and quickly spread to Liberia and Sierra Leone, Gambians considered the outbreak as a distant cry until six months later when it struck neighbouring Senegal and Mali. As the second smallest country in West Africa, Gambians feared that if Ebola ever struck their soil, it would have devastating consequences on the small population of 1.8 million people.
It is a hot and busy Saturday morning in Abidjan and volunteers with the Red Cross Society of Côte d’Ivoire are preparing for their live radio show on Radio Amitie’, a community radio station in the capital. The topic this week is malaria, but today the volunteers will not talk only about the usual malaria prevention messages, they will also tackle some of the strongest traditional beliefs existing in communities.
In Pictures: Hello Red Crescent – We Listen to You
Bangladesh Red Crescent Society’s live community radio show provides people with useful information related to their recovery and development, and the opportunity to ask questions. With this approach, the Hello Red Crescent show can reach people where access to information is a challenge and promotes dialogue with disaster-affected communities and more effective partnerships. The show allows people to share experiences and discuss their needs with the Red Crescent and other stakeholders.