May the best script win!
Today, Farm Radio International is launching the Scriptwriting Competition on Smallholder Farmer Innovation. On this website you will find all information you need about the competition.
The Scriptwriting Competition is open to organizations and individuals working with radio in Africa. Broadcasters, radio stations, production organizations, radio projects, farmers’ associations with a radio show, etc. are all invited to submit their radio scripts to Farm Radio International before November 1, 2009.
An online training course, starting August 24, will help participants write their scripts and improve their radio skills. A number of prizes, from digital audio recorders to participation in conferences will be awarded to the authors of winning scripts. The best scripts will be published in English and French and distributed to hundreds’ of radio organizations across sub-Saharan Africa.
We invite you to sign up for the competition!
Press release (PDF): Launching of the competition
I thank you all in advance for introducing this competition, which I believe will lead me to make a difference. I’m very much tuned
Another great opportunity for us. Especially, we the community radio broadcasters not only to develop and improve our skills but to share the untold stories from our communities.Technology could be a challenge at our remote villages but a little effort we can use it to give voice to our smallholder farmers and connect them to the world.How about that? I urge all my colleagues in Ghana to join the writing competition, because ‘yes we can’
Lydia Ajono
Tamale. Ghana
It is indeed another time to sharpen our skills and bring out ideas for the good of all and sundry. I shout to everyone who has prioritized the welfare of mankind especially the smallholder to come on board.
Robinson Wikana – Kakamega, Kenya
This is important to try. I hope everyone we see how important this is. Give it a try, Malawian colleagues!
Waau this is yet another opportunity members, members colligues and all broadcaster most especially the pest fm group of broadcasters in Uganda who recently were graduated on the online longdistance trainning pliz lets utilize this to enrich our skills in producing and broadcasting farmers programmes and others am really so excited about this and would like to dedicate my time to this, so as to improve on my script writing slikks..\\
Good luck to all who will participate
Alachu Davies -Soroti Uganda
The competition has come at an opportune time for me. I have just completed a four month online training with AFRRI Malawi. It wil be as if I am continuing with the training.
I want to encourage my fellow broadcasters elsewhere to register for the competition,not for the the sake of the prizes, but for best scripts and broadcasting skills.
I wish good luck to all those who will register. Let us meet online.
Andrew Mahiyu – Malawi