COVID19

Stories and updates about partners using community-centred media to respond to the Covid19 pandemic.

Community meeting North Kivu

“The Radio gives us security”

By Jon Hargreaves / September 6, 2023

During a recent visit to North Kivu, communities told us how Umoja FM has been a lifeline for them during war and crises, while the team prepares for the next phase of the project.

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Radio drama in Sierra Leone

By Johnny Fisher / June 21, 2022

Welcome to Saltville – the Freetown neighbourhood setting for a new 15-episode radio drama, based on community household visits and designed to stimulate wider conversations around living with Covid19 in Sierra Leone. 

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Protecting social connections with media

Protecting social connections in Western Australia

By Johnny Fisher / April 13, 2022

With their base in Western Australia, where COVID has only recently arrived in any scale, our sister organisation, Health Communication Resources (HCR) has quickly adapted to the new restrictions, supporting their community to keep vital social connections alive.

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Sierra Leone: Learning to live with Covid

By Stephanie Mooney / September 21, 2021

Amplifying Voices is supporting our radio station partner BBN in Sierra Leone as their team of 30 community volunteers visit homes in 9 Freetown neighbourhoods to hear what local households…

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Kawale community workshop

Workshopping remotely in Malawi

By Johnny Fisher / August 25, 2021

On Thursday 12 August, we held a remote community workshop with partners Hope for Relief and Community Development Network (CDN) in Chitipa, Malawi. This is our first experience of starting…

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Vaccine readiness in Adivasi communities

By Johnny Fisher / July 30, 2021

The news from Seva, our partner in Maharashtra, India, is that despite Covid-19 spreading rapidly even in the most remote Adivasi villages, communities that have speakerboxes programmes are resisting the…

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Rose at her talking shop with large speakerbox behind her

Talking Shop

By Johnny Fisher / June 27, 2021

Rose owns a shop in Omugo 4 refugee settlement in Uganda. It’s a place where people exchange news. Her ‘talking shop’ has just had an upgrade.

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Women holding speakerbox

Covid’s most important public health message

By Jon Hargreaves / May 20, 2021

“It’s the most important public health message that is now becoming famous all over Nashik,” Shilpa told me, as they placed more speakerboxes in clinics across the city at the…

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Making Covid programmes for Adivasi communities in India

Protecting India’s Adivasi communities during the second wave

By Jon Hargreaves / April 29, 2021

As the Indian health system buckles under the strain of a Corona virus surge that has eclipsed anywhere else in the world, our partners in Maharashtra say the pandemic is…

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A young woman walks alone in a district in Freetown, going to a water source. Sierra Leone

Sierra Leoneans prevail through Covid isolation

By Alice Stout / March 13, 2021

Social distancing – a term that most of us were unfamiliar with pre-2020. These days, we can hardly have a conversation without mentioning it. Though it is essential to keep…

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