When people protested, they were shot. Tens of thousands have lost their homes.
Chicoco Radio will allow them to reach out and speak up. From their floating station, people living in the city's slums will be able to demand their rights, campaign for change and celebrate their culture. Built and designed by local volunteers in collaboration with architects and engineers, the floating radio station will be one of the city’s landmark buildings.
Chicoco Radio facts:
• Chicoco Radio will be Nigeria’s first community radio station• 16 waterfront communities and groups will be on the community advisory board
• 250 people will be trained in technical, management and journalism skills
• 65,000 waterfront residents will have access to media technologies
• 1,500,000 people in Port Harcourt will be able to tune in to Chicoco Radio
'We were always taught we had no rights. That was the lesson the bulldozers were sent to teach. Now we're learning to speak up for our rights and our radio station will mean that we are heard.' - Fubara Samuel, Okrika waterfront
We've just finished our basic human rights journalsim course. It was wonderful. We had to challenge so many of our own prejudices as well as learn new ways to communicate new ideas.
Makmid, Amnesty International's Nigeria Researcher, clothed us in those ideas. In return we clothed him in traditional costumes - two of them - to thank him. We hope he'll be back soon.
After the course we were sent on assignment to make our first programmes. Some of us had never used a computer before this course, now we can make a basic programme package. We've got a lot more to learn, but we're making giant strides.
Stay with us on this journey and please support our radio station.
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