Education

In community-centred media we talk about 5 tasks of media – Information, EducationDialogue, Advocacy and Entertainment. The following stories are examples of community-centred media fulfilling the task of Education.

Simooya Community Radio

By Amplifying Voices / October 16, 2024

Simooya Community Radio, Pemba District Amplifying Voices partnered with the Chibozu Community Trust, an NGO registered in Zambia and the UK, to set up Simooya Community Radio station which went…

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Community Engagement

A Game Changer in Tana River

By Jon Hargreaves / October 19, 2022

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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Family listening to educational radio programmes in Kenya

Radio supports digital learning in Kenya

By Jon Hargreaves / April 29, 2021

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…

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girls with school books listening to radio

School’s on air for summer

By Jon Hargreaves / July 7, 2020

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…

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Cartoon of boy and girl going to school

Education: a right for all children

By Health Communication Resources / February 14, 2019

In Australia, we are extremely lucky to have public education for all children, which is why it might sound surprising that in some communities, there are children missing out on years of school or even their entire schooling. This has huge ramifications for their future abilities to live a fulfilling purposeful life.

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