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Healthy communities script package released!

May 17th, 2011 No comments

This script package features the 10 winning scripts from Farm Radio International’s recent scriptwriting competition on healthy communities. We also include an issue pack which provides background information to help you research and plan programs.

In Voices we present an interview with Alice Bafiala Mutombo, the overall winner of the scriptwriting competition. We offer general feedback on the scripts submitted for the competition, and photos of the ten competition winners!

Along with the latest issue of Voices newsletter, the script and issue pack are all available on the Farm Radio International website: http://farmradio.org/english/radio-scripts/

In addition, we invite you to listen to two audio productions based on two of the winning scripts.

Thanks to the Gender, Equity and Rural Employment Division of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) for supporting the audio productions.

The two scripts/audio recordings are:

1. “A community fights malnutrition with local leafy vegetables,” was written by Gabriel Adukpo from the Ministry of Food and Agriculture in Koforidua, Ghana. In this script, a local extension worker helps villagers to reclaim the health and agricultural benefits of indigenous green leafy vegetables, commonly stigmatized as “poor people’s food.”

2. “AIDS support group gives positive people a new lease on life!” was written by Filius Chalo Jere from Breeze FM in Chipata, Zambia. This drama shows how a local Zambian organization helps HIV-positive people improve their nutrition by supporting them to grow the ingredients for their own nutritional supplements.