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• German Kindergarten Class Joining World Radio Day Celebrations
  Radijojo World Children's Radio Network in Berlin's Kleiner August Kindergarten are celebrating World Radio Day with something small, but very special that "comes straight from the heart".

• Important Dates and Statistics about Radio
  UNESCO has created a special World Radio Day page, which includes statistics, important dates and "15 ideas on how to celebrate" this special day.

• The Dominican Telecommunications Institue launching nation-wide contest
  INDOTEL in the Dominican Republic is holding a nation-wide contest for World Radio Day, asking 18 to 24 year olds to create orginial radio programming.

• A selection of vox pops from Nepal
  Here is a selection of vox pops from radio listeners in Nepal, expressing why radio is important to them.
  

• Strengthening minority voices in Sri Lanka through community radio
  M C Rasmin, director of the Sri Lanka Development Journalist forum, discusses his new book on community broadcasting in Sri Lanka and the importance of it being in Tamil.

• Women and community radio in Mozambique
  "Visbily moved, the older woman came to me during the break, taking my arm and shaking it while repeating her question: 'Is it really true?' Her dark, powerful eyes full of fear, of doubt, but still with a shine of hope behind it all." This is the story of one womans venture in setting up a women's community radio in Mozambique.
  

• Setting up a community radio station in Laos
  Between 2007 and 2009 Birgitte Jallov of EMPOWERHOUSE helped establish the first ever community-run radio station in Laos. Here she shares why the station was important, the stages in its development and how the radio programming helped save lives and inform people of their rights.
  
  
• By word of mouth or radio in the Central African Republic
  Jim Hocking, CEO of Integrated Community Development International (ICDI), shares his experience with radio in the Central Africa Republic. Jim was behind the country's first privately owned shortwave radio station - Radio ICDI.
  
  
• Community radio connecting remote communities in Nepal
  Mohan Bista of the Association of Community Radio Broadcasters Nepal discusses why community radio is important to promoting access to information in the South Asian state.
  
  
• Radios power to transform children’s’ lives in Wales
  Cas Germain, 25, helped set-up a radio station dedicated to foster children Wales. She shares her story.
  
  

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