Youth
Journalists Broadcast On Citizen Radio
By Fatmata Dainkeh
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December 22, 2005
Some members of the Voice of Youth Radio Programme
at CMET on Sunday broadcast at Citizen Radio FM
103.7 together with kids of Focus on Children
of the radio station. This was in celebration
of the International Children’s Day of Broadcasting
organized by UNICEF Sierra Leone.
The Voice of Youth Radio
programme is a project headed by David Tam-Baryoh,
Director of CMET and of Citizen Radio, to train
youth journalists in basic journalism and broadcasting,
to enable them produce programmes relating to
youth and human Rights issues. The programme
has been in existence for about seven months
now.
Young boys and girls whose
ages range from 16-20 years were drawn from
different parts of the city to undergo the training
which lasted for about six weeks. About 25 of
them went through the exercise. They can now
produce programmes, some of which are normally
aired on Citizen Radio.
When Citizen Radio
was contacted by UNICEF to participates in this
year’s International Children’s
Day of broadcasting which falls on the 11th
of December 2005; and since both the Voice of
Youth Radio Programme and Citizen Radio are
been headed by one person, David Tam-Baryoh,
some of these youth journalist were therefore
brought over to join the Focus on Children show
of Citizen Radio to celebrate the day. Different
programmes including a discussion programme
on this year’s theme LET’S PLAY,
a short skit and jokes formed part of the activities.
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