Environmental sustainability

Stories and updates about partners addressing environmental sustainability, either through the content they create, or in the way that they implement their community-centred media project.

World Radio Day 2025: Radio and Climate Change

Amplifying Climate Solutions in Tana River

By Jon Hargreaves / February 13, 2025

As we celebrate World Radio Day and the role radio plays in climate change, we look at how one station is making a dramatic difference to communities in Kenya.

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Going on air in a drought

Going on air in a drought

By Johnny Fisher / April 25, 2024

Simooya Community Radio is now on air on 94.3 FM. What has made it worth putting effort into getting a new community radio station on air, when villagers are suffering from a severe drought?

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Flood waters Tana River

From Drought to Deluge: Vox Radio Becomes A Lifeline

By Jon Hargreaves / December 21, 2023

After four years of drought, Vox Radio rallies to become a Lifeline for Tana River County communities which have been devastated by El Niño Floods.

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Everyday peace

What does peace look like to you?

By Johnny Fisher / November 23, 2022

Although Soot Semee started off as a peacebuilding project, its programmes don’t stop at conflict prevention. They enable an environment where people can flourish. So what does peace look like for community members?

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Men standing in street

Community cleans up

By Jon Hargreaves / July 16, 2019

“The garbage situation was getting so bad in our town, that something had to be done about it,” says Harriet Atyang, the station manager of Amplifying Voices’ partner station, Amani FM, in eastern Kenya’s Tana River county. Approached by the Kenya Red Cross in an effort to help the problem, Amani FM was able to go on air and get a conversation going about the importance of keeping the environment clean.

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Tana FM prepares communities for El Nino

By Jon Hargreaves / October 7, 2015

As the Kenyan Meteorological office warns coastal areas in Kenya of the high risk of flooding due to El Niño, newly founded HCR partner station Tana FM , is playing…

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