The Radio Workshop:
Giving Young People a Voice

Welcome to the Radio Workshop!

In this week’s episode we hear from two young people in Zambia, who want to build a floating school, and we visit the historic village of Genadendal just 90 minutes drive from Cape Town. Listen to the entire episode by clicking on the track below.

Radio Workshop: January 15, 2011 by childrensradiofoundation

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Welcome to the Radio Workshop!

Today’s show has been created in partnership with Unicef’s “Unite for Climate” campaign. On it, we’ll hear the second half of our session with young people in South Africa talking about climate change.

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The value of a garden

15 year-olds Kimico Peterson, Brandon Van Niekerk, and Nadine Prince from South Peninsula High School talk about the indigenous garden and food tunnel that their environment club has grown, how gardening is linked to reducing one’s carbon footprint, and what they have gained from the experience.

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Does living a modern life mean leaving a big carbon footprint?

Six young Capetonians debated this question: does living a life of technology and comfort necessarily mean leaving a big carbon footprint? Opinions varied.

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Worms!

Composting and vermiculture is another way to keep our environment healthy.

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Over 150 teenagers from 44 countries representing every continent and a huge diversity of cultures gathered last year for the Children’s Climate Forum. A week-long meeting that preceded COP15, the young climate ambassadors participated in workshops and discussions that resulted in a declaration to the world’s leaders. In the lead up to COP16, we asked some of these young ambassadors to share their thoughts about that meeting, what has happened since, and if they feel optimistic about the future.

“My delegation and I asked our Environment Minister if he had read the paper,” says 17 year-old Irina Studhalter from Switzerland, referring to last year’s youth declaration. ”He said he saw it before but couldn’t remember if he had read it or not. To be realistic I don’t think it’s been read a lot. But I’m sure it made a difference, at least in the heads of all the teenagers who made it. That’s what I took home from Copenhagen – hope.” Listen to Irina’s message, a year after COP15 and the CCF here.

“A year ago, at the COP15 you have made promises,” says 14 year-old Coralie Norris from Haiti. “You promised to reduce your emissions and pledged to invest in green projects. When will you apply these promises? When it will be too late? When will we forget what natural resources really mean because they will fade away? It’s very late. But not too late to make things happen. You still have the power to change everything, invest in renewable energy, make adaptation to climate change your priority, allowing us to hope for a bright future. It’s our lives that are in your hands.”

16 year-old Travis Mills from New Zealand remains optimistic, but thinks the answers lie with grassroots movements rather than governments.

“Truly I am positive and optimistic for the future. I do believe that trying to get our governments to change policies for climate change will not be the way that we will succeed. I believe the number one way we will change how climate change will affect our future and our grandchildren’s future will be quite simply through the grassroots movement. You need to make the public understand why something’s happening, and that’s done through grassroots education, no other way. And it is here where we, the children and youth of the world, play such a critical role, because we can lead that public education.”

18 year-old Anand Gupta, an Indian who lives in the USA, takes the long view.

“What if there isn’t any change from here on? I believe it will be our species which will be at most loss. We will suffer the greatest. If you look at the history of the earth about 4.5 billion years, it has always persisted, what has suffered has been the individual species. Whether it be the dinosaurs or the other mass extinctions, it has always been the species that have suffered. So who is in danger if there’s no change? Humans. So we do need change. It is in our best interest.”

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Welcome to the Radio Workshop Podcast!

This week our show is all about living a full and healthy life. We have three different features – we meet the presenter of Siyayinqoba Beat It!, we visit a Cape Town capoeira class and an architect tells us about  designing cities that inspire people.

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Welcome to the show!

Radio Workshop host Mbali Vilakazi welcomes listeners to the show.

The Radio Workshop broadcasts every Saturday at 12 noon on SAfm. Visit SAfm’s website for information about how to find their frequency in your area.

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How Nokubonga Yawa Beat It

“Siyayinqoba Beat It!” is an award-winning TV show that reaches more than a million South Africans each week. Its new season has just begun on SABC 1. It’s a down-to-earth, real life show for all South Africans about living positively with HIV. Nokubonga Yawa presents the show and shares her inspiring story with us.

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Co-ordination, concentration, co-operation, Capoeira!

Let’s get physical. We visit the Caproeria Education Youth Association in Cape Town and find out why it’s so much fun.

We’d love to hear from you—send us an email at info@radioworkshop.org!

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Signing out

That’s it for this week, join us next week for more from the Radio Workshop. We hope you’ve enjoyed the show!

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