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Proposal Subject
to a successful funding, BHN Association (BHN) is pleased to contribute a
humanitarian community radio station to be set up where it is needed in
partnership with a local operating partner.
Objective
of the radio station is the dissemination of information to enhance
human security of vulnerable local people who can hardly access to TV,
radio or newspapers simply because of unavailability of such media in
their place or because of their insufficient literacy to read or being
too poor to buy written media. Lack of impartial information and
misunderstanding caused by rumor by word of mouth with distortion brings
about conflicts among (ethnic) groups in the Community. A community
radio is sure to serve for minimizing such problem and to contribute to
conflict prevention. BHN
will provide at its cost all materials and equipment for the radio
station consisting of transmitter, antenna, and studio for program
production and also give necessary initial technical assistance. The
transmitter has 100 watts of VHF FM output power; covering the service
area within a radius of about 20 km. BHN may as well distribute radio
receiver sets to the listeners if necessary. Local
Partner
should be a neutral body such as UN Agency, local or international NGO
or other sustainable humanitarian organization eligible for the radio
service project. The local partnerfs role is the operation and
administration of the radio station including the production of programs
and putting them on air at its cost and on its account. Programs:
The
programs of the humanitarian community radio would be those as
exemplified bellow which may help to attain the afore-mentioned
objective: 1. Public
notice and/or information necessary for daily life from the offices of
local government, UN or other aid agencies, hospitals/clinics, police
stations, schools, and other public institutions. 2.
News and message from NGOs or other groups working in the
community. 3.
Educational
program for the prevention of HIV/AIDS, DV, FGM, HT, SGBV, etc. 4.
Programs
(dramas) produced by groups from the community related to the previous
item. 5.
Warning
to prevent land mine accident and infectious diseases. 6.
Impartial
local and international news. 7.
Relay
of remote foreign and national radio broadcasting. 8.
Music
and other entertainment program. BH BHN Association has so far donated community radio stations to the people in disaster areas in Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Iran for the dissemination of information focused on the local community. BHN has also distributed radio receiver units to the listeners. |
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Hambantota,
Sri Lanka,
March
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