Valentine’s Day took a different turn this year. A global awareness campaign called “One Billion Rising” used the day of love and romance to protest sexual violence against women and children through dance and street action. Ten girls from the Ons Plek project in Cape Town, turned up the volume on the campaign theme song and danced to say NO to rape and sexual violence against women and children.
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The Radio Workshop would like to thank Ons Plek for their bravery and for sharing their insights with us.
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According to the United Nations, tuberculosis is the second most infectious disease in the world. In 2010 approximately nine million people worldwide had TB. The Children’s Radio Foundation spoke to Lethu, a young patient who has multi drug-resistant TB. She says she’ll remain on treatment for the next two years, but has turned a corner and is feeling stronger everyday.
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The Radio Workshop would like to thank Lethu for her sharing her inspiring story with us.
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Lethu
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According to UNICEF statistics, three million youth aged 15 – 24 are infected with HIV and AIDS in Africa. The Children’s Radio Foundation conducted radio trainings in Zambia where youth discussed this burning issue. They share their stories about how the disease touches their lives. They created Public Service Announcements and took to the streets to get youth opinions.
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The Radio Workshop would like to thank the youth reporters from across Zambia for their creative reports.
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Neglect and abuse are some of the harsh realities many children live with. Youth reporters from Manenberg in Cape Town were brave enough to share their stories and experiences with us. They also went to Child Welfare and interviewed social workers there to get some answers to their questions.
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The Radio Workshop would like to thank Keith, Bronwyn, Nikita, Brandon and Theslin for sharing their stories with us and doing it with such courage.
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Bronwyn
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Of all the people infected with HIV in the world, 67% live on the African continent. It’s a disease that affects us all, impacting individuals, families, communities and entire countries. The Radio Workshop speaks to young reporters in Zambia, visits a home for HIV affected children in Cape Town and one of the producers of the show records her HIV test for radio!
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The Radio Workshop would like to thank Sister Joy Knighton-Fitt, Mainkonika, Sandra Marunga, Kate Lagwa and all the children at Fikelela Children’s Home for talking to us.
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Have you ever heard the saying that the shortest distance between two people is a laugh? Laughter makes us feel better, is good for our health and nurtures intimacy. The Radio Workshop finds out more about the serious business of being funny. We tag along with Care Clowns as they bring their own dose of medicine to hospitals. And we discover a new movement called joy activism!
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The Radio Workshop would like to thank Zinzi Mangweni, The UPliftment Programme, Nicola Jackman and the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital for their inspired contributions.
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Nicola Jackman, joy activist
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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.
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.
Let’s get physical. We visit the Caproeria Education Youth Association in Cape Town and find out why it’s so much fun.
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This is part three of a series celebrating the rights that children have under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Today we hear about the right of children to be protected from injury and abuse, as well as children’s right to education.
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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. If you live in South Africa, you can listen live on air. Tune your radio to a frequency between 104 to 107FM to find SAfm.
Children have the right to be protected from all forms of abuse
It is an abuse to neglect a child’s needs or to beat a child, but in many South African communities and even at home, children are treated badly by adults. Charmaine Smith from the organisation, Molo Songololo, tells us about the difficulties some children face, but says they need not feel alone. Help is available.
“Molo Songololo” means “Hello Caterpillar”. If you’d like to know more about Molo Songololo, click here.
Know your rights, protect your rights!
How best can children ensure their rights are respected? There are many things children can do. Unicef’s Stephen Blight, along with Shirley Pendlebury and Lori Lake from the Children’s Institute at the University of Cape Town offer some practical advice.
To find out more about Childline services in South Africa, click here.
Learning to live
All children have the right to education – no one can force a child to work instead of going to school. Teenagers from Esselen Park High School, in the farming town of Worcester, Western Cape, tell us about the choices that some children face.
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All children have the right to health – and this means much more than not being sick. It means access to a clean and safe environment, to good medicines and treatment – as well as the time to play! The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child celebrated its 20th anniversary in November 2009. In part two of our series on children’s rights, we take a look at the right to health. Article 24 of the Convention says that, “all children have the right to the highest attainable standard of health”.
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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. If you live in South Africa, you can listen live on air. Tune your radio to a frequency between 104 to 107FM to find SAfm.
Children’s Commentaries on Health
Learners from Esselen Park High School in Worcester, Western Cape tell us what it’s like to be sick and what it means to be healthy.
What does it mean to be healthy?
Shirley Pendlebury and Lori Lake of the University of Cape Town’sChildren’s Institute tell us that access to clean water and a clean environment are also part of children’s right to health.
Health rights and the South African Children’s Act
The South African Children’s Act gives important rights to children as young as 12-years old regarding their health. Prinslean Mahery, a senior researcher at the University of Cape Town’s Children’s Institute, tells us more.
Nonnie’s story
We close today’s show with a story recorded by Nonkhanyiso Mphanga. Nonnie lives at a St Joseph’s Home near the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital in Cape Town. She knows almost everyone at the hospital because she’s been in and out so many times. She tells us why she needs permanent access to oxygen and what it’s like to live with a serious health problem.
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The Government of the Republic of Zambia and UNICEF are currently hosting the Zambian Children’s Climate Conference in Lusaka, Zambia. The national conference is the first of its kind in the world since the international Children’s Climate Forum was held last November in Copenhagen, Denmark.
The conference brings together nearly 200 children from all nine provinces of Zambia. The participants are being educated about climate change issues and are attending a series of adaptation and mitigation workshops in order to create work plans that they will begin implementing when they return to their home districts.
Youth Delegate Profile: TendaiNyirenda
In the past few months many areas of Zambia experienced terrible floods that caused widespread devastation. Children in affected areas were not able to get to school and education was disrupted, and some children drowned in the floodwater.
16 year old Tendai Nyirenda hails from Livingstone, in the south of Zambia. She says that young Zambians need to work together to combat the effects of climate change.
Youth Delegate Profile: Stan Lengwe
As they are the most vulnerable, children will face the brunt of the impacts of climate change in the future. Many of the main killers of children, including malaria, pneumonia, diarrhea and malnutrition, are highly sensitive to climatic conditions and are expected to worsen as the world gets warmer.
Stan Lengwe is 16 years old, and is in Grade 11 at Kabulonga High School in Lusaka. He says that garbage collection in his city leaves much to be desired, and that poor sanitation contributes to the health problems of young people.
Youth Delegate Profile: Wilfred Simbule
Children are also important in getting the message across about climate change. The knowledge and skills that young people require to address the rapidly changing environment are often different from what they learn in school. The Zambian Children’s Climate Conference teaches young people that they can do their part to address climate change in their communities, and that they need to work hard to capture the attention of their peers.
Wilfred Simbule is 15 years old and a student at Chingola High School in the Copperbelt region. He says that the mines in his area contaminate the drinking water, and that it is important to educate his peers about water safety and other local environmental issues.
Unicef Regional Director Mr. Elhadj Amadou Gueye Sy
Fourteen year old Luyando Katenda from Lusaka interviews Unicef Regional Director Mr. Elhadj Amadou Gueye Sy about Unicef’s commitment to climate change.
Listen to Unicef Regional Director Mr. Elhadj Amadou Gueye Sy’s full speech at the ZCCC here:
Unicef Zambia Country Representative Lotte Sylwander
Fourteen year old Luyando Katenda from Lusaka interviews Unicef Zambia Country Representative Lotte Sylwander about local climate change issues.
