Training in radio production in Africa
Radio Nederland Training Centre (RNTC) has started trainings for
radio producers in Senegal, Sierra Leone and Guinee-Bissau. Volunteers
at local stations receive lessons in professional radio production
for the local population. The goal of the initiative is to create
closer collaboration and the exchange of programs between the participating
radio stations. Radio in Africa has a very large audience.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Thematic Co-financing Program
will pay for the three-year RNTC project. In his opening speech,
the president of Sierra Leone, Alhaji Dr. Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, stressed
the importance of the media. According to him, local radio in particular
played an important role in the reconciliation and
rebuilding of the country after the bloody civil war in the nineties.
Since 1968 RNTC has been stimulated the free formation of opinion
by providing media trainings to journalists, program producers and
teachers from developing countries. RNTC is part of the Word Service
(Wereldomroep) that informs millions of Dutch speakers abroad via
radio, TV and the Internet about goings-on in the Netherlands. The
World Service also attempts to foster the free formation of opinion
among people in countries that do not enjoy freedom of the press.
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