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While serving a worthwhile mission, Equal Access International has also at times created a negative impact amongst emerging/startup local businesses who do not always have the means or financial resources to compete with well-capitalized "MNC"s of the development media world.
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Mission
To create positive social change for millions of underserved people in the developing world by providing critically needed information and education through innovative media, appropriate technology and direct community engagement.
Key Facts
Geographic areas served:
Currently Asia & Africa
Results to date:
Equal Access has grown in 4 years from reaching less than 5 million to a reach of almost 45 million in Asia and has just launched projects in the African Sahel.
In 2007, Equal Access has:
Engaged more than 9,000 local communities
Produced more than 590 hours of original media content
Delivered more than 30,000 person-days of training
Reach listeners for less than 10cents per year.
What your donation will allow us to do:
Without infomration, millions are powerless to improve their lives. You can help bring critical information & eduaction to remote and underserved communities that use these tools to improve the quality of their lives and their greaters societies.
Your donation of $60
enables us to:
Broadcast a 30 minute radio show to an entire national audience.
Your donation of $120
enables us to:
Advances sustainability: Sends a community leader to a three day training.
Your donation of $1000
enables us to:
Produces one radio episode.
Description
Equal Access creates customized communication strategies and outreach solutions that address the most critical problems affecting people in the developing world.
Programs
Equal Access delivers critically needed development information to underserved and marginalized communities by combining FM and digital satellite broadcasting with grassroots community outreach and leadership training so that, for the first time, communities in the developing world without access to terrestrial radio, newspapers or any other information sources are now being provided with engaging content that assists them in facing the challenges of a changing world. Equal Access? Asia Development Channels cover all of south and south-east Asia, including even the most remote rural communities. In Nepal, Afghanistan, Cambodia India, and Laos we have already implemented effective development projects using this unique approach.
Every day, millions of people throughout Asia, tune into Equal Access? radio programs to be informed and entertained on a range of development issues such as women's empowerment, HIV/AIDS, early childhood development, health, peacebuilding, youth life skills, rule of law and anti-trafficking. Designed to educate as well as entertain, most of Equal Access? radio programs consist of serial dramas, interviews and chat shows. After the broadcasts, these issues are discussed in thousands of villages through facilitated listening groups reinforcing the messages. Currently, Equal Access? programs can reach approximately 12 million people in Nepal, 5 million people in Afghanistan and 6 million people in Cambodia- allowing for a total beneficiary estimate of 23 million people in Asia!
In Nepal, a new Peacebuilding & Human Rights Initiative, Changing our Worlds, combines interviews and a radio drama, to promote increased participation of rural Nepalese? in local reconciliation and governance activities. In Afghanistan, a new Human Rights & Women in Islam Initiative, My Rights, Our Rights, Others? Rights in the Light of Islam, combines presenter led chats, engaging interviews, exciting serial dramas, and relevant case studies relating to the dramas to initiate and develop discussions about peoples? ?Rights? and how they can be understood within an Islamic framework, thereby reinforcing democratic principles and supporting civil society within existing Afghan social, religious and cultural traditions. In Cambodia, a new Safe Migration Initiative, The Future is in Your Hands, uses a combination of serial radio dramas and magazine shows to educate rural Cambodians about safe migration practices and to direct their inquiries to local organizations that provide support services.
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