Feb. 2011

$20,665

Completed

Kabul

RC-East

Project Description

No project description provided.

Project Goals

Radio Surobi has conducted a needs assessment of equipment in order to boost its capacity. the project follows four main lines of endeavor.

REACH: New transmitters will allow it to reach the Uzbeen Valley, a volatile Pashtun and Pashai are where few radio stations reach.

CAPACITY: The current mising table is broken and needs to be replaced. The Field recorders and headphones will allow the reporters to record outside the studio and reach females who will not come to the studio because of its location on FOB Tora. The professional field recorders will allow production of features that meet quality of standards of foreign press and can be passed on to other stations. the computers and memory cards will be used for more sophisticated program production.

POETRY COMPETITIONS: Radio Surobi holds public poetry competitions where sixty poets gather every Friday. The contests are then broadcast and are very popular. The amplifiers, loudspeakers, stage microphones and mising table will all be used to stage and record these competitions.

THEATER GROUP: Radio Surobi records theater plays and makes them into a weekly show. The tie microphones and small mixing table will be used to produce these programs.

JUSTIFICATION: 

The radio is the primary source of information and entertainment in the district. Boosting free and independent media contributes to the development of civil society. 

Programming content such as music, poetry, plays and open discussion are antithetical to the conservative ethos of the insurgency. Improving the radio''''s capacity creates a positive information campaign against the insurgency.

The new equipment will allow Radio Surobi to produce more Female-oriented programming. Through this programming, the radio will reach a group that is largely cut off from information.

Results

Project is a hit with the locals and will allow him to reach up in the valley. it has improved the broadcast and quaility of it.

Updates

Payment made on 10 APR 11.