Social capital

This page lists posts in which we illustrate Social Capital as an outcome of community-centred media projects.

In this context, Social Capital refers to when people hear their own voices, stories, and opinions aired via a media broadcast and it builds self-confidence, motivation and intent to get involved in community development activities.

A subset of this list of posts can also be seen on our Approach page

“We didn’t realize that our voice was so effective and strong!”

By Johnny Fisher and Hazeen Latif / May 13, 2019

Change is happening and its infectious! The development changes we have seen in the last few months in Majukay, a community in Charsadda, Pakistan, were almost unimaginable 4 years ago when the community members set ambitious goals for being a healthy thriving society. It feels like a corner has been turned, and the change is gaining momentum.

Celebrating 3 years of Amplifying Voices in Freetown

By Johnny Fisher / February 16, 2019

HCR (now Amplifying Voices UK) joins with the AVS (Amplifying Voices through SALT) Project in Sierra Leone to celebrate 3 years of strengthening communities and locally generated action with a…