Kenya

Browse the following articles to learn more about our partners in Kenya and their communities.

Vox Studio Kenya

Vox Radio Goes Regional

After months of planning, Vox Radio is now live from Minjilla and also relaying to central Tana River from the regional capital, Hola. Meanwhile the launch of a new ICT initiative for the region is attracting national attention.

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Peace Heroes

Local Peace Heroes

Tana River’s Vox Radio team receives recognition for its contribution to peace-building, as plans take shape for the region’s first ICT hub.

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Community Engagement

A Game Changer in Tana River

Following the amazing impact of our peace building project in eastern Kenya, Amplifying Voices and the Amani Centre are about to embark on our most ambitious journey yet…

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Vox Radio

New Name for a Trusted Voice

This morning thousands of radio listeners woke up in eastern Kenya’s Tana River County to a new sound, as the presenter cheerfully announced,  “Habari Tana River, you’re listening to Vox Radio. The name may be new, but this is a trusted friend…

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Cup Winners Tana River

Football Brings Women Peacemakers Together

Organised and broadcast live on Tana River’s Amani FM for Mothers Day, a women’s football tournament has not only proved hugely popular, it enabled women to take a lead in promoting peaceful engagement ahead of August’s elections.

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Amani FM

Amani FM – Changing the Narrative

As Kenya moves towards a high-stakes election, the team at Amani FM in Tana River is challenging some of the narratives that are fuelling tension.

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Amani FM

Promoting peace as election tension rises

With the threat of violence ahead of Kenya’s election this year, the team at Amani FM in Tana River is working hard to promote peace

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Family listening to educational radio programmes in Kenya

Radio supports digital learning in Kenya

Adopting technology for learning is attractive in the digital era. It gives a sense that we are changing the old for the new. But technology itself is not transformative. Education technology is not about devices or exchanging a blackboard for a computer screen or tablet.   However with one in three children around the world lacking access…

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girls with school books listening to radio

School’s on air for summer

With Kenyan schools now unlikely to reopen until January 2021, radio has become an educational life-line for many families across the country.  Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, Amani FM, HCR’s partner station in Eastern Kenya, in collaboration with Zizi Afrique Foundation, has been delighting children and parents across Tana Delta, with a variety…

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Covid19 – Nudging Nairobi’s youth

As the number Covid-19 cases begin to rise dramatically in Kenya, health authorities have been urging communities to stay at home, observe physical distancing and not to go back to work. However there is a major concern that many young people, particularly in Nairobi’s informal settlements, are not heeding the warning. To that end, Mtaani…

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