Videos
As CPJ's (Committee to Protect Journalists) Haiti consultant Jean-Roland Chery wrote Wednesday on the CPJ Blog, community radio stations play a leading role in local news coverage in Haiti's most remote communities, filling the void left by private radio stations.
Anyone interested in supporting alternative communications in Haiti after
the quake, suggest that you get in touch with:
An interview with Guyrleine Justin, director of REFRAKA (Network of Haitian Women Community Radio Animators) who narrowly escaped from the REFRAKA office when the six-story building collapsed.
A visit to Radyo Zetwal Peyizan (Radio Star of the Peasant) in Fondwa,
Haiti, and an interview with the director to talk about how the earthquake
destroyed the radio and about the importance of community radio stations in Haiti.
The visit was carried out by SAKS (Society for the Animation of Social
Communication), a small non-profit that works with community radios and
promotes popular communication in Haiti and is part of the AMARC's Haiti
emergency response efforts.
An interview with Sony Esteus, director of SAKS (Society for the Animation of Social Communication), a small non-profit that works with community radios and promotes popular communication in Haiti. Interview and video are part of the AMARC's (the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters) Haiti emergency response efforts.
As CPJ's Haiti consultant Jean-Roland Chery wrote Wednesday on the CPJ (Committee to Protect Journalists) Blog, community radio stations play a leading role in local news coverage in Haiti's most remote communities, filling the void left by private radio stations.
great site article on CNN about how low tech radio has been helpful
Open Solace, Crisis Commons project -- "Very few projects are focusing on creating sustainable flows of information into, out of, and with Haiti... locally produced independent media... [create] an intracultural relief effort that deals in the cycle of grief, compassion and the flow of dialog. Specifically, through the exchange of these postcards people will be moved to unload, intra-culturally."
