Competing for Umoja

Our Amplifying Voices triathlon team in the UK, successfully completed the Brighton and Hove triathlon on 10th September and is so  grateful for the overwhelming support they received.  Through the generosity of donors they have reached 94% of their target to support  “Umoja FM”, an amazing peacebuilding project in North Kivu in the DRC.

Amplifying Voices helped set up the Umoja (Unity) station in 2016 and when two of our team members visited there recently, they were blown away by the impact this station has had since then.  Visiting different communities in the region, they heard many stories of how Umoja FM has become a life-line and seen them through war, Ebola, a refugee crisis and the pandemic.

The funding will help:

• Rebuild the Umoja FM studio, which has been damaged by weather, war and termites – see below
• Develop a solar-powered FM relay station to reach more communities with little or no access to reliable information
• Purchase two motor-bikes to help the team reach inaccessible areas
• Support regular community-engagement across the region
• Conduct training and monitoring visits

If you would like to help the triathlon reach 100% of their target, please visit the team’s funding page: Triathlon for DRC

 

The current studio, which has been damaged by weather war and termites, will be replaced by this…

Thank you for your generosity