Girls Making Media project is a three year project based in Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Togo directly benefiting at least 140 adolescent girls and 30 adult journalists in each country
Poto-Poto is an awareness-raising campaign about child rights and young people’s problems in Africa, which was launched by Plan and AURA (Artistes United for African Rap) in July 2006.
The radio campaign "I am a child but I have my rights too !" has been produced by Plan in West Africa since 1998 in collaboration with almost 100 radio stations.
Since 2004, children are promoting their rights through radio in 8 countries in West Africa : Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo
Key activities in Burkina Faso in 2009 included the training of several young journalists on various aspects of print journalism including writing editorials and photo journalism.
Bibir Radio, which means "The Radio of the Children" in Dagara, one of the languages of the country of "people of integrity", started on 15 April 2005 in Gaoua.
Tselly, child presenter : “This program Kids waves has given me the opportunity to better understand my rights. I have never presented on radio but I now feel confident to speak on the radio”
Salomey, member of Odumase child rights club : “When I took the leadership role to be the team leader for organizing the Swine Flu Campaign I thought I was going to work with the facilitator but he encouraged us to do the work ourselves. I am glad I can take credit for the work I have done.”
Plan Ghana have been making programmes on child rights for many years on two radio stations : Yen Adwen on Adom FM and Voices of Children on Radio Upper West.
Of the 20 Kids Waves radio programs recorded live in Guinea in the last year, three of those produced were synchronized to coincide with significant child rights events in the calendar year.
In celebration of the Day of the African Child, project stakeholders were actively involved in organizing a mass dissemination of cell phone text messages across Liberia.
In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the CRC, Mali planned several activities - at local, national and international levels - for the whole of month of November. Activities included conferences, debates, seminars and assessment meetings.
The themes of the child rights radio programs broadcast in Senegal in 2009 were self-selected by children and covered an array of issues directly affecting their lives.
The project Reflection and creativity in education for development is an initiative of Plan International’s West Africa Regional Office (WARO) supported by Plan Senegal. It took place in Notto, in the Thiès region and in Fass Mbao, a suburb of Dakar.
Youth media groups in Sierra Leone helped stage a special community radio show in celebration of the UNCRC 20th Anniversary involving a concert performed by Bai Abdul Sahid Kargbo, a musician and national celebrity in Sierra Leone.
The main activities carried out in 2009 included choosing themes for radio programs, identifying and training participants to take part as well as recording and post-production activities, which included : editing, mixing and making copies of broadcasts.
The Radio Training Centre for children in Togo (CEFRET) is one of Plan-Togo’s ‘Children and the Media’ Programme projects, with the same name as the radio campaign ‘Deviwo Be Radio’ (DBR).
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