Radio day’s celebration in Guinea

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To mark the 50th anniversary of the launch of the transistor radio, the media teams at Plan are running a media campaign called Radio Days.  The aim of the campaign is to highlight Plan’s many child radio projects around the world and encourage international, national and local broadcasters to dedicate some air-time to the children’s radio shows on 18 October, the actual anniversary date.

Plan Guinea, will be part of it, through the radio campaign “I am a child but I have my rights too!”. A team of British and Guinean journalists will attend some shows hosted by children in different radio stations in Guéckédou, N’Zérékoré and Mamou.

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For these budding-radio hosts, it is an occasion to be interviewed by professional journalists but also to interview them and share “experiences”.

Since the campaign is launched, 195 stories have been recorded, in seven different languages - French, Kissi, Kpele, Maninka, Pulaar, Sussu and Toma; and thousands of children from different communities have participated to promote children rights through radio. By sending letters, drawings, poems, by calling, as resource persons, as radio hosts, as listeners.

Started in 2001 in Guinea, the radio campaign stories focused on several children’s rights, as embodied by the Convention, such as AIDS, early marriage, importance of drinking water and sanitation, violence and exploitation, handicapped children, immunization,etc.