New Hope – Juharabad, Pakistan

Interview

Amplifying Voices Pakistan helped a youth group in Juharabad, in Punjab province of Pakistan, to run a pilot community-centred media project.

The young people from a local church formed the New Hope project hoping to improve living conditions and address social issues in their community. Amplifying Voices Pakistan provided community-centred media training and mentoring support to the youth group and their pastor who operated the pilot for approximately one year.

Pilot activities:

  • The New Hope team began making short audio programmes for distribution on WhatsApp and later for FM broadcast.
  • Media topics included family life, Eid, local success stories, alcohol abuse and more.
  • New Hope collaborated with Rescue Service 1122 to provide first aid training to the team and to community members.
  • A small number of more vulnerable families, who have no access to WhatsApp, were given Speakerboxes to listen to the programmes.

 

 

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