Posts by Health Communication Resources
How ‘technology’ has changed
We’ve been looking through HCR’s archives and have asked our founder, Dr Ross James, to explain the story behind photos that mystify us ‘young ‘uns’. By Ross James It comes as something of a shock to walk into a museum and discover something that you used displayed as an historical object. It was 1991. There,…
Read MoreThe HCR family comes together for the first time ever!
HCR Australia was founded in 1993 by Dr Ross James who has extensive knowledge in communication for development. Since then, HCR entities have been established in United Kingdom and Pakistan. Each HCR entity works together towards the common goal of supporting marginalised communities through community-centred media. In the last week of August, for the first…
Read MoreA water resource management student gets involved in…radio!
MSc Student, Joseph Thompson has just completed writing up his research which he conducted at HCR’s partner project, Tana FM in Eastern Kenya during June and July. A student of water resource management at Wageningen (Holland) and Copenhagen (Denmark) Universities, Joe’s research addressed the conflict over resources in the region and particularly how the radio…
Read MoreA talented bunch…?
In the Mid West, HCR works primarily with community radio stations and partners who rely on community radio for communication support. HCR has had dealings with the community radio broadcast sector over a number of years because we greatly support the role of community-run radio stations, such as the Mid West Aboriginal Media Association (Radio…
Read More10th Anniversary for Syban program
The tenth anniversary for Syban program was on the 11th of May. Syban Radio program was launched in Pakistan by Feba Pakistan in 2006 as a response to the devastating Muzaffarabad earthquake in late 2005, where 80 000 died and an estimated 4 million others left homeless. Various government agencies in Pakistan had asked HCR…
Read MoreIt’s National Youth Week, so why should we celebrate the youth of this nation?
By Celeste Larkins The youth of Australia are important to society and its functioning. They are our next generation of tradespeople, teachers, doctors and lawyers, so they need our support. The years of youth can be a time of struggle, dealing with family issues or friends, as well as pressures to ‘fit in’ at weekend…
Read MoreA vision better than sight guides Wahid.
Our story begins in October 2005, when a magnitude 7.6 earthquake changed Pakistan-administered Azad Jammu Kashmir forever. The quake shook a mountainous region around Muzaffarabad, a city 100 kilometres northeast of Islamabad, at the foothills of the Himalaya mountains. At least 86,000 people were killed, more than 69,000 injured. Not far from the epicentre…
Read MoreThe irony of Charsadda attack
By Ross James When attackers stormed the Bacha Khan University in Charsadda, northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, 20 January 2016, they exposed a great irony. Twenty one people, not including four men killed by security forces, died. Among those dead are 17 students and a lecturer who shot back at the gunmen with his pistol, to…
Read MoreInnovative Radio Program Spreads Hope in Pakistan
Say “Pakistan” and people think the worst, because the news presents the worst. But Pakistan contains much beauty, much of interest and wonderful personal stories of hope. Nadeem Awan, disabled since childhood, is one of those stories. A few years ago Nadeem began listening to a radio program in his city of Muzaffarabad in Azad…
Read MoreRadio MAMA – WA Mid West
Radio MAMA is an Indigenous broadcaster based in three rural and remote locations in Western Australia’s Mid West. Radio MAMA and HCR strengthen community engagement through workshops with community members who participate in the design, production and presentation of radio messages for health and social development campaigns delivered by local service providers. What: Radio MAMA…
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