School Priorities - SNV

Quality Education
Children planned their own radio programmes, using them as a forum for talking about the issues most important to them.
Listeners were impressed by their insights on today's education challenges.
Radio is a wonderful avenue for increasing
child participation for two reasons. First,
most homes in West Nile have a radio,
which they use to listen to programmes
about social and development issues.
Arua alone has five radio stations that
reach over 700,000 people. Second, using
radio improves children’s speech fluency,
creativity and self esteem, exemplifying the
purpose of extracurricular activities.
To test out the idea, the district identified
three schools to take part in the program,
with each school tapping three girls and
three boys to write, edit and record shows.
To help them with this task, SNV brought
Ssonko on board as a local capacity
builder (LCB). Ssonko worked with each
of the schools to select teachers to guide
the children and help them present their
arguments clearly.
Each school produced shows that aired
on Nile FM and Radio Pacis. The most
popular format was a call-in programme.
The students gave their talking points to
a moderator, who discussed them with
the children and then let them take calls
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