From radio school student to tech pioneer
Cephas never forgot his humble beginnings, learning to read and write under the shade of a fig tree, with the wind-up radio as his daily companion and guide.
Cephas never forgot his humble beginnings, learning to read and write under the shade of a fig tree, with the wind-up radio as his daily companion and guide.
With COVID-19 disrupting education for billions of students across the globe, radio education has renewed importance as an effective, reliable and highly personal medium for fuelling learning.
by Sajor Barry | Growing up in the slums of Freetown, Sierra Leone was like hell on earth. I was born and raised next to the Atlantic Ocean in Kroo Bay, one of the poorest, most densely populated and neglected communities in Freetown.
Radio Voice Bank will be an open source library of curated audio content for African listeners with limited access to information.
It’s one thing to hear about classrooms with 200 students, but it’s another to visit one. While at Kakuma Refugee Camp we spent time in a Grade 3 classroom packed with 200 students. There wasn’t so much as a chair or brick for them to sit on. all of Kakuma’s 24 primary schools are overcrowded.