DAILY SNAP: Youth Reporters visit Cape Town TV studio
Youth Reporters from Siviwe House in Woodstock had the opportunity to experience a live TV show from behind the scenes as guests at Ukulele Media studios in Cape Town. Hectic 99 is a TV Youth show...
View ArticleDAILY SNAP: “Manenberg is a beautiful place”
Our Manenberg Youth Reporters were busy this past Saturday at the Manenberg Library in Cape Town, South Africa reporting on an event that celebrated the best of the community! The library, usually a...
View ArticleDAILY SNAP: DRC Voice of the Child Project
Our “Mungongo ya Muana” (Voice of the Child) Project is finally taking off in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo! Flash-back on the young reporters’ training that took place at the beginning...
View ArticleDAILY SNAP: Ubuntu Lab youth conference 2015
Last week, we hosted our first ever conference, the ‘Ubuntu Lab’ at the District Six Homecoming Centre in Cape Town. It was a full day of sharing, discussing, listening, dreaming and… spontaneously...
View ArticleDAILY SNAP: Zambian young Reporters gear up for training
Things are really shaping up with our Zambia Unite for Climate Youth Radio Project – funded by the Rauschenberg Foundation. Two weeks ago, CRF’s Clemence Petit-Perrot travelled to Lusaka to meet with...
View ArticleDAILY SNAP: Ruth from DRC shares powerful personal changes
Ruth Imonga is a young reporter from the Mbandaka Youth Reporters in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In the recent radio trainings that promotes the rights of children, Ruth reports that she no...
View ArticleDAILY SNAP: Successful youth radio training in rural Democratic Republic of...
After an initial community consultation and some focus group discussions, the Children’s Radio Foundation conducted its first training in Bikoro, a small town surrounded by thick equatorial forest and...
View ArticleDAILY SNAP: We meet US LGBTI ambassador, Randy Berry
On Monday 25th January 2016, our new Future Positive Youth Facilitators interviewed Randy Berry and participated in a round table discussion about human rights and LGBTI issues on the African continent...
View ArticleDAILY SNAP: CRF youth talk back to HIV decision-makers
In the lead-up to the International AIDS Conference taking place in July in Durban, South Africa, CRF is making sure young voices are present on that platform. In partnership with the Desmond Tutu HIV...
View ArticleDAILY SNAP: Kinshasa street youth reporters in action
‘Mungongo ya Mwana’ (the voice of a child) is one of our projects in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) that provides a media platform to Kinshasa-based street youth to talk about issues affecting...
View ArticleDAILY SNAP: Ubuntu Lab Talking Heads conversations
Our Ubuntu Lab conference, held alongside the Youth Radio Awards in September, provided the space for young people to deepen their understanding of Ubuntu, and share ideas on how they can bring the...
View ArticleDAILY SNAP: Street youth reporters celebrate Universal Children’s Day
On Universal Children’s Day, November 20th, our street youth reporters in Kinshasa advocate for their rights. They observed this day together with church members and pastors from the ‘Assemblies of...
View ArticleDAILY SNAP: Workshops and training on droughts and floods in Zambia
New issue-based training kicked off in Lusaka, Zambia this past week. Young reporters learnt new ideas on the topic of water, droughts and floods to implement new radio shows at their community radio...
View ArticleDAILY SNAP: Gun Free South Africa staff training
Our Cape Town based staff and South African regional trainers recently participated in a two-day training with Gun Free South Africa, ahead of our European union funded community safety project. Adele...
View ArticleDAILY SNAP: Brighton meets President Barack Obama!
This week, CRF Global Youth Ambassador Brighton Kaoma met with President Barack Obama at the Obama Foundation to discuss the role of young African leaders in bringing about sustainable solutions to the...
View ArticleDAILY SNAP: COSAT youth reporters at Global Evidence Summit
On September 16th, several students from Centre Of Science and Technology (COSAT) in Khayelitsha, attended the morning plenary at the Global Evidence Summit, which took place at the Cape Town...
View ArticleDAILY SNAP: Ivory Coast youth shine at ICASA AIDS Conference
Ivory Coast young reporters, along with young reporters from the DRC, South Africa, and Zambia made their voices heard at the International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA) in Abidjan in...
View ArticleDAILY SNAP: DRC Inga youth reporters in action
Updates from our projects in the Democratic Republic of Congo: youth reporters from Inga, near the Congo River in western DRC, have recently completed refresher radio training with our regional...
View ArticleDAILY SNAP: Ivory Coast youth reporters in streets of Abidjan
Young reporters Wily, 16 years old and Ines, 17 years old, meet with parents in the streets of Abidjan to discuss behavior of adolescents at home, for the weekly radio show. Our Ivory Coast youth...
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