Nowshera

This page lists posts about Amplifying Voices Pakistan’s project in villages near Nowshera.

a woman planting seeds

Amplifying with care

By Johnny Fisher and Hazeen Latif / July 16, 2024

Amplifying Voices Pakistan promotes change at a pace that allows time for long-held cultural norms to adapt. Through Bright Home groups, they’re finding a care-filled approach to amplifying voices is paying dividends for positive change.

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Things no-one talks about

By Johnny Fisher and Hazeen Latif / June 3, 2023

Bright Home helps Pakistani women create new opportunities. We hear how Amplifying Voices navigates challenging cultural barriers and norms, and discusses things no-one talks about.

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Interview with addition district commissioner

Amplifying Voices in the Pakistan floods

By Johnny Fisher and Hazeen Latif / September 20, 2022

Amplifying Voices Pakistan responded to the Pakistan floods by supporting communities in KPK near Charsadda and near Nowshera. This was our first deployment of an Amplifying Voices in Disaster (AViD) response.

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Iterative listening

Listen – then listen again

By Johnny Fisher and Hazeen Latif / June 19, 2022

In a village in Pakistan, we recently heard this story that highlights the importance of iterative listening when engaging with communities. And after listening to come back and listen again …

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new borehole

Radio programme that dug a new borehole

By Johnny Fisher and Hazeen Latif / April 14, 2022

When radio programmes highlighted an isolated community’s struggles to access fresh water, a local donor stepped in, wanting to assist as part of her Ramadan preparations, so that the community could to drill a new borehole.

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men loading bricks into donkey packs

Brickmakers speak out

By Johnny Fisher and Hazeen Latif / October 20, 2021

Due to the sensitivity of this issue, faces are blurred to protect identities of local workers Brickmaker factory owners in South Asia are notorious for their mistreatment of workers. Despite…

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Community champions discuss local issues

Community champions extend an invitation

By Johnny Fisher and Hazeen Latif / June 24, 2021

Amplifying Voices Pakistan were recently invited to Nowshera in KPK by an enthusiastic group of socially-minded people who want to learn what community-centred media is all about.

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