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Radio Gune Yi

Dakar, Senegal

RGY is an experimental children's radio: a radio managed and conducted by children and for children. It is the setting of new information technologies in the hands of a young public in order to create a space for them to exchange and speak about their concerns. In this case, young people open debates, discuss and look for solutions without intermediaries. In this pioneering experience in the field of audio-communication in Western Africa, a diversified transmission network allows the integration of information, education and entertainment. In its extension phase, children journalists come out of the studios to prepare live programs everywhere in the country.

In this project, students having basic notions of radio techniques, organize and manage program production addressed to their classmates. The main focuses of interest of the program are: the promotion of children's rights, the access to the value of the social-cultural heritage through tales and legends and the freedom of speech. All this goes parallel with education, information and entertainment. Children are associated to all the phases of the carrying-out: places identification, determination of the contents and choices of the children participating in every program. Given the success of the experience, its publicity has extended to other strata of the population, its issues cover all areas of life and its field of action, extending beyond the capital city, has integrated villages and other far-away places of the country.

This initiative, falling within the promotion of children's rights, appears as a response to a factual lack of children-oriented and teenagers-oriented programs within the audiovisual and radio-phonic environment of Senegal. RGY then comes to eliminate a deficit in this domain.

Ms. Ramata Almany Mbodj
"Radio Fréquence Jeunes" Allées Seydu Nourou Tall
Villa 4081 Sicap Amitié 2
Dakar, SENEGAL
Tel.: (221) 825 47 15
Institutional Partner
Radio and Television of Senegal
Financial Partner
NGO International Plan/Senegal

Start of the test phase in 1995

An evaluation by the Canadian Cooperation and Studies Center has awarded it a very honorable mention. New York International Festival Award in 2000.