Children’s Radio Foundation Youth Reporters in Atlantis, a community outside of Cape Town, got the chance to chat with Orlando Bloom. The actor is a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, and he stopped by our youth radio project while he was in South Africa working on a new movie. The young reporters asked him some tough questions, and Bloom gave great, engaging answers.
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The Radio Workshop would like to thank Orlando for sharing so candidly with us.
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And that’s all from this week’s Radio Workshop!
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The latest climate change conference COP17 ended without any many achievements. While world leaders failed to agree on a new solution to global warming, there are many ordinary people like you and I who are doing something about it everyday. We hear from them in this episode of the Radio Workshop and how climate change affects their lives.
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The Radio Workshop would like to thank the Climate Ambassadors from Zambia and Sindiswa Nobula for sharing their stories with us.
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Sindiswa Nobula with WWF Chair, Vallie Moosa at COP17
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Climate Ambassadors planting trees at the Zambian Children
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Trees provide us with timber for building, wood for furniture, pulp for paper, fruit and seeds for food and medicine, and they’re home to many insects and animals. But do we ever give much thought to what happens once a tree is cut down for our use? The Radio Workshop is celebrating Arbour Month this September. We found out from youth in Zambia what trees mean to them, and how they are changing their communities one tree at a time!
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The Radio Workshop would like to thank Tinasha Gwalia, and all the Climate Ambassadors at ZCCC3 for talking to us and sharing their messages about greening the planet.
Tinasha Gwalia
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Today’s podcast has been created in partnership with Unicef’s “Unite for Climate” campaign. On it, we’ll hear young people in Zambia and around the world talking about climate change — what it is to them, how it affects their lives, and what they’re doing about it. We’ll also hear their advice to the world’s leaders coming together at the end of November for the COP16 meeting in Mexico.
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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.
Audio Declaration from youth climate ambassadors
First we’ll hear recommendations from youth climate ambassadors to the world’s leaders at last year’s COP15. But what is COP, you may ask? We talk about this and other ABC’s of climate change.
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Climate change to me
Next on our show, youth from Lusaka and Mongu, Zambia share their ideas about what climate change means to them, and what they feel they can do about it.
Click here to listen to youth audio profiles and audio diaries produced by the Radio Workshop!
Interview of Kapambwe Chanda
17 year-old Kapambwe Chanda thinks that it’s crucial for youth to be more involved in climate change mitigation, and she has plenty of suggestions for all of us.
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Inspired to action
15 year-olds, Perry Sinkonde and Luyando Katenda have figured out ways that they can help fight climate change in their communities.
Spreading the message
17 year-old Esther Kalenga hosts a radio show about climate change at her community radio station, Radio Liambai in Mongu. What impact does such a radio show have on her community, she asks the show’s producer, Mundia Mundia.
Protecting Creation
18 year-old Tambudzai Mutale interviews a local priest in Mongu about what the church is doing to help fight climate change.
Message to the World’s Leaders
15 year-old Luyando Katenda isn’t pleased with the results of COP15, and implores the world’s leaders to make responsible choices at COP16.
Children’s Climate Forum: committed
You may have already listened to the first half of the audio declaration by the youth at last year’s Children’s Climate Forum, requesting action from their leaders. Let’s hear what commitments they themselves are willing to make to fight climate change.
Wrapping up
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This podcast has been a production of Unicef’s Unite for Climate campaign. Unite for Climate is an online community of young people from all around the world working together on Climate Change. Unite for Climate will be a participating member at COP16 in Cancun, Mexico and ready to share the knowledge received globally with interested youth.
The Radio Workshop recently took part in Unicef’s second Zambian Climate Change Conference and worked with young Zambians to produce their own radio stories. In today’s show we hear young people’s views about a range of issues. These include teenage girls women being married off to older men; garbage disposal; the impact of poverty; short-sighted planning by adults and drug abuse.
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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.
We’d love to hear from you—send us an email at info@radioworkshop.org!
Signing out
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Gisenyi, Rwanda: A challenge facing many young men in this corner of Rwanda is the difficulty of finding work, and what this means for their ability to assume responsibility for caring for their ageing parents or building a life of their own. Alexis Niyongombwa is 20 years old. This is his story.
Dodos Twahirwa (20) earns a living as a football coach for the community-based organisation, Vision Jeunesse Nouvelle. He was unable to finish secondary school because his family did not have enough money. Despite his worries, he encourages other young people to complete their high school education.
GISENYI, Rwanda: In response to a Unicef press release about the World Cup in My Village project, Reuters sent their Rwanda correspondent to Gisenyi to find out more. There he met Vestine Nziyandemye, one of the 15 youth reporters trained by the Children’s Radio Foundation who are producing radio stories about the views and experiences of young people in the area. After Themistocle Hakizimana had put his questions to Vestine and she had dutifully answered them, Vestine took her recorder and asked the Reuters correspondent a few questions of her own!
Here is the audio link to Vestine’s interview with Reuters correspondent, Themistocle Hakizimana, followed by a transcript in English.
Vestine: I’m Vestine, I’m one of the trainees trained by CRF, in radio journalism. Can you kindly introduce yourself to us?
Reuters: I’m called Hakizimana, Themistocle, and I’m working for the British television called Reuters.
Vestine: How did you hear about how these matches were organized here, and what do you think about them?
Reuters: It was all organized by Reuters in London as UNICEF was preparing this project of showing the World Cup to many children.
Vestine: It’s good to see you being a journalist with far more resources than us: what do you think of what you have seen at this stadium?
Reuters: What I have seen is that there are many children and hardly any adults. What I like most about this project is that it has brought World Cup matches to children who would not be able to afford to watch them in other places where they’d have to pay. That is what impressed me most, although I think that many more children would have come compared to the number of children I know live in Gisenyi.
Vestine: There are more children that are going to come later on, they’re still busy doing other jobs at home, but when the match begins they will come. So what would you say to the listeners of CRF?
Reuters: What I’d like to say is that many parents do not give any value to football. I’d like to encourage parents to let their children come and watch football matches because it’s an international game and any child who has that talent can benefit and get inspired by watching the matches.
Vestine: Thank you for coming, and welcome to our stadium, and please give our greetings to other journalists.
And here is an audio recording of the Reuters interview with Vestine, followed by a transcript in English.
Reuters (Themistocle Hakizimana): You’ve introduced yourself, please tell us about the [radio] training you received and are you putting your training into practice?
Vestine: We were trained for several days in how to use this recorder I have. We were trained in how to make stories, and how to make good recordings, and that is what I’m doing here so that they can evaluate me and see if I benefited from their training.
Reuters: Why do you think it was important to involve children in this project?
Vestine: It was good firstly because some children like the profession of journalism, such as me, I have always liked it, even if I hadn’t had the chance of studying journalism. But more importantly it is good that children were involved because it gave them a chance to express themselves. When a child is put in this position it empowers him to be able to do something.
Reuters: What do you think will be the benefit of showing children the matches here, starting with you yourself?
Vestine: It is very good even starting with myself, because there are children who have a talent that needs to be developed. There are times when a child can like football because of a particular player they admired. There are times like now, just before halftime, when there are messages played about nutrition, good water, education, and other subjects, which are good messages for children that they can listen to and can implement after watching the matches.
Reuters: You are a girl, many times in Rwanda, culture does not permit girls to play football. Does this embarrass you?
Vestine: No, it’s not an embarrassment at all because we are at a stage in development it is no longer an embarrassment for a girl to play football. So I think it’s important that girls are also allowed to come to these matches, because the messages that play here are not meant only for the boys.
Reuters: What message or advice do you have for UNICEF about these projects?
Vestine: My first request would be that because of the high levels of ignorance among parents in rural areas, they should be sensitized before matches to let their children come and benefit from the other messages [that are being played at the matches] about things like nutrition. That way the parents would be encouraged to send their children to the matches. The parent will feel that their child is not only coming for the matches or other mischief, but will know that the child will benefit from the messages, and therefore let the child come without any problem.
Reuters: The last question, of the matches that you have seen so far, which did you like most and what did you learn?
Vestine: The match I liked most was the first opening match with South Africa and Mexico. The reason was that the very first goal was from the Africans while the rest of the world thinks that Africa cannot do much. It shows that we are capable and not always needing to depend on the whites.
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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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.
Join us next week for more from the Radio Workshop. We hope you’ve enjoyed the show!
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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.
Orlando Bloom at Radio Atlantis
