We are amplifying voices

Equipping communities with media tools to get people talking, listening, and taking action to improve local health, well-being and resilience.

Airwaves Shatter Silence, Spark Action

In Kenya’s Tana River County, voices of women are breaking through silence and stigma to ignite social change.

The right people

In these interviews with Simooya Radio team members, we hear how important great attitudes are to growing a sustainable community radio station.

Backpack radio for Gaza

In a matter of weeks from now, we hope to see a much-needed humanitarian radio station going on air in Gaza.

Tree planting to restore dignity and peace

A tree planting campaign, started on radio, could have far-reaching consequences for gender, climate, and peace in Morobo County, South Sudan.

Amplifying Voices - Projects

- DRC -

Umoja FM – North Kivu

Torn apart by 20 years of brutal and bloody conflict, North Kivu in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is one of the most ...
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- Pakistan -- UK -

Amplifying Voices in Disaster

Amplifying Voices in Disaster - Goal That community voices play a central role in humanitarian responses, and communities recover quickly from disaster, growing in confidence, ...
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- Uganda -

Soot Semee – Northern Uganda

Misinformation fuels conflict but community engagement fosters trust. Soot Semee is a community-centred media pilot designed by South Sudanese refugees living in resettlement areas in ...
- Zambia -

Simooya Community Radio

Simooya Community Radio, Pemba District Amplifying Voices partnered with the Chibozu Community Trust, an NGO registered in Zambia and the UK, to set up Simooya ...

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Amplifying Voices in 2023

Media content - on-air activities

  • Advice & Information

  • Discussions

  • Drama

Exploring themes raised by communities

  • Health promotion

  • Hygiene

  • Children's education

  • Natural resources

  • Displacement

  • Peace-building

  • Women and girls on-air

  • Safeguarding

  • Trauma recovery

Going into communities

  • Listening

  • Engagement

  • Mapping

Supporting off-air activities

  • Vocational skills

  • Savings groups

  • ICT for women and girls

  • Health camps

  • Access to clean water

  • Improving schools

  • Seeds for kitchen gardens

  • Farming cooperatives

Amplifying Voices 2013-2023

Media Mentions

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CDAC Network - Pakistan Flood Response

CDAC Network and Amplifying Voices co-penned a blog post the importance of radio in disaster, based on the AViD (Amplifying Voices in Disaster) response to Pakistan floods in 2022.

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Footsteps by Tearfund Learn

Footsteps magazine focusses on participatory media. There is one article on community-centred media from Amplifying Voices, and a 'how-to' article on community-centred podcasts based on our speakerbox projects

 

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"Let it be as Local as possible"

"Let it be as local as possible" is a quote from Community Development Centre's Barnabas Samuel in the Participation and Local Leadership section of DW Akademies's report on engaging with communities affected by displacement.

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CDAC Network - World Radio Day 2020

CDAC Network hosted a guest blog from Amplifying Voices about the disaster radio response in Mozambique after Cyclone Idai. At the time of posting, we were known as Health Communication Resources (HCR), and were members of a First Response Radio (FRR) network.

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Worthing Herald - Cyclone Idai Report - 2019

Worthing Herald (paper version) published an article about the Cyclone Idai response. At the time of writing we were known as Health Communication Resources (HCR).

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Medium - Alice Stout - 2019

Alice Stout, writing for Medium, reflects on the power of community-centred media following a trip to Maharashtra to document to the work of SEVA Social Welfare Foundation among Adivasi communities.

(Original article published in Liberti Magazine, Summer 2019 Edition)

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UN OCHA - ROSEA - 2019

Rita Maingi from UNOCHA published "Mozambique: A radio programme for women is back on air after Cyclone Idai destroyed the station" referring to our Cyclone Idai response. At the time we were known as Health Communication Resources (HCR) and working as part of a First Response Radio (FRR) network.

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Worthing Herald - 2018

Sussex Express (Worthing Herald) news report on our blog campaign, 16 Days of Activism to end violence against women. (Dec 2018)

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