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.

Transforming life in the village

In Zambia’s Southern Province, “in the village” is a euphemism for isolation and lack. People don’t want “in the village” to always have connotations of poverty. Simooya community hopes that the new radio station will help villagers experience “fullness of life” instead.

From Drought to Deluge: Vox Radio Becomes A Lifeline

After four years of drought, Vox Radio rallies to become a Lifeline for Tana River County communities which have been devastated by El Niño Floods.

From rage to peace

Taking part in a “Bright Home” group helped six sisters to overcome their rage at having “nothing to lose”, finding peace and boldness to take risks to improve their future, inspiring others to come alongside.

Building peace in an ever-fractious world

Working to transform conflict in a county in Eastern Kenya, Fatma Mzee, shares how in a fractious world with divisive media, radio and the internet can be a powerful tool for peace.

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

Amplifying Voices - Projects

training community volunteers

Naway Saher – Charsadda, Pakistan

In a village near Charsadda, in north west Pakistan, Amplifying Voices Pakistan has trained community volunteers to produce community-centred radio programmes. The programmes tackle issues ...
soot semee media workshop

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 ...

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 ...
New Hope Sargodha vocational skills class

Bright Home – Sargodha, Pakistan

Amplifying Voices Pakistan is working with community activists in Sargodha district in Punjab province, to create new opportunies for women and young people. New Hope ...

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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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