On December 10, 2009, CMFD participated in the launch of a new campaign, Score a Goal for Gender Equality, spearheaded by Gender Links and the Gender and Media Diversity Centre (GMDC).
Radio for Peacebuilding Africa recently awarded CMFD's six-part serial drama Crossroads winner of the Radio for Peacebuilding Africa Awards Special Category.
(Mozambique - Portuguese, 2009) They were getting ready for the big game. He sounded the warning, but they thought he was joking. And when it happened, they risked losing it all! As the waters rise, so do the treachery, conflicts and dangers. Ride the rapids of love and hatred, greed and honour. Follow the lives of a community torn apart by an event completely beyond their control!
Bravos do Zambeze (‘Zambezi Braves’) is a multi-faceted initiative that combines a high quality 26-episode radio drama with training for community radio journalists, in order to convey information around disaster risk reduction and build local capacity for reporting on disasters and climate change. The project was produced by CMFD for the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), as part of the UN Delivering as One, Joint Programme on Disaster Risk Reduction Project.
(South Africa - September 10, 2009) CMFD participated in a climate change demonstration organised by the Sustainable Energy and Climate Change Partnership in Johannesburg.
The demonstation was organised to protest Sasol's plans to build a new coal-to-liquids plant, as well as raise awareness of the effects that large emitters like Sasol and Eskom are having on the environment and the people who live near their plants.
Article on climate change By Tonya Graham. Click below
