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<>Sheila"Dealers" and "Troco"
Now Launching....
(Mozambique, Zambia)
<>How does love, the Mafia, and friends and family, combine to leave a woman desperate, and a community torn apart?? Find out on Dealers – a new 13-part radio mob bossdrama produced by CMFD for the IOM's Southern African Counter-Trafficking  Programme. Launching in radio stations in June 2008.          Read More...

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"Dealers" Trailer (1.1MB)
"Dealers" Theme Music

"Troco" Trailer (1.53 MB)
"Troco" Theme Music (1.5 MB)

"Crossroads" Coming soon...
(Kenya)
http://www.cmfd.org/cmfdimages/crossroads1.JPGWhat happens, when you bring together a frustrated market trader frantically looking for her missing daughter, a corrupt police officer, and a magic potion that makes them experience life in each others bodies? – Find out at the “Crossroads!”

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Crossroads is part of the Media for Women’s Rights (MEWOR) Project, an innovative 3-year multi-media initiative launched by The African Women’s Development and Communications Network (FEMNET) and FAHAMU Networks for Social Justice in collaboration with partners across Eastern and Western Africa, to get people talking and acting on women’s rights.

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Recent Training & Capacity Building....

Covering Elections
Luanda, Angola
This two-week workshop built the knowledge and capacity of radio journalists to investigate and report on elections processes and the upcoming September elections in Angola. This workshop involved participants from three radio stations - Radio Despertar, Radio Nacional De Angola, and Radio Igreja.

Creating Voter Information and Education Radio Spots
Luanda, Angola

The aim of the workshop was to increase capacity of the political spokespeople to undertake voter education, encouraging people to vote, and be aware of the issues. More specifically the workshop focused on the development of a series of radio spots, or public service announcement that could be aired to encouraged voter awareness leading up to the September elections.

Reporting Local Governance and Community Participation
Pemba, Mozambique
With training and on-site production provided by CMFD  Konrad Adenauer Stiftung organised a 5-day workshop to build the interest, knowledge and capacity of radio journalists to investigate and report on local governance, issues, and initiatives affecting the community

Reporting on Women’s Rights
Maputo, Mozambique
Designed and implemented by CMFD and supported by Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, this 5-day workshop brought together 8 women radio journalists from community and national radio stations in Mozambique fro 5 - 8 December to build capacity on and create 4 Portuguese-language radio programmes on reporting women's rights within legal frameworks.

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Musicians Against XenophobiaMAX  
 
(South Africa & Mozambique)
South African and Mozambican musicians are coming together to use music to fight xenophobia in South Africa. The musicians will work together to write and record three songs, with at least one in Shangaan, 
aimed at empowering migrants and encouraging pan-Africanism. Part of the project is reasearch to look at how music is and can be used for social change in Africa, and issues around xenophobia.
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Counter-Trafficking Community Theatre   
(South Africa & Mozambique) 
Photo: Alertos Da Vida                              
group Launched on 24 November, Khuluma Afrika! is a Portuguse, Zula, Shangaan and English production combining music, dance and drama to raise awareness of human trafficking in South Africa, especially among the Mozambican community. Produced for the International Organization for Migration's Southern African Counter-Trafficking Programme's  the production has been mounted in community venues where there are a large number  of Mozambican migrants, especially in mining communities.
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 Rural Women's Radio Ayanda
(South Africa, Kenya, Sierra Leone
 As part of a three-part project with FAHAMU and local partners, CMFD worked with rural women in Southern, East and West Africa to produce radio/ podcast programmes about women's rights, especially related to rural women. 
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Humbanane - a musical call to end violence against women in all forms 

HumbananeInsideCoverWith Funding from the Global Fund For Women CMFD and Alertos Da Vida Produced three songs in Shangaan that talk about women's rights, migration, trafficking, and discrimination. Involving over 15 musicians including Feya Faku, Louis Mhlanga, Mlingisi Gegana, Jackee, Judith Mudau, Edith Mudau, Femi, Ayanda Sikade, Trevor Smith, and many more including the Alertos Da Vida group, these funky tunes were  released to radio stations
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