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.

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What is a speakerbox?

July 24, 2024

At Amplifying Voices, we use the term “speakerbox” to talk about a digital audio player with a built in speaker, suitable for group listening for around 10 people.

Going Deeper in India

July 17, 2024

As the impact of a community-centred media project among indigenous tribal people in India becomes apparent, the local teams believe it’s time to go deeper.

Amplifying with care

July 16, 2024

Amplifying Voices Pakistan promotes change at a pace that allows time for long-held cultural norms to adapt. Through Bright Home groups, they’re finding a care-filled approach to amplifying voices is paying dividends for positive change.

Going on air in a drought

April 25, 2024

Simooya Community Radio is now on air on 94.3 FM. What has made it worth putting effort into getting a new community radio station on air, when villagers are suffering from a severe drought?

Amplifying Voices - Projects

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Umoja FM – North Kivu, DRC

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 ...

Amplifying Voices through SALT, Freetown

We are partnering with Believers Broadcasting Network (BBN) in Freetown and local community volunteers to strengthen community health, wellbeing and resilience. Amplifying Voices through SALT ...
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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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Adivasi Voices – Maharashtra, India

Amplifying Voices is partnering with Seva Social Welfare Foundation to tackle poor health and build resilience in indigenous Adivasi communities. Seva augments their healthcare activities ...

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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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