PRESS: The Children’s Radio Foundation on World Aids Day
The Children’s Radio Foundation have reported some exciting project developments that have occurred in 2014, including their work on World Aids Day. The most successful of this years interventions have...
View ArticlePRESS: Future Positive
Children’s Radio Foundation are training mentors and young people in Cape Town to use radio as a tool to get young people talking about HIV/AIDS in their community. Stigma has been identified as the...
View ArticlePRESS: Lesedi Mogoatlhe On The Power Of Youth-Led Radio
Our own Lesedi Mogoatlhe, Project Director for Future Positive project is featured as a Commonwealth Writer for the Commonwealth Foundation blog. This is her blog post: I have been working as a trainer...
View ArticleSTAFF PERSON PROFILE: International Development Coordinator, Sophia Stone
NAME Sophia Stone LOCATION Oxford, UK Since September 2013, Sophia has been the International Development Coordinator of the Children’s Radio Foundation, supporting the UK Director in all aspects of...
View ArticleBOARD MEMBER PROFILE: Kholofelo Molewa & India Baird
NAME India Baird & Kholofelo Molewa: Co-chair of the South African Board LOCATION Cape Town, South Africa Short bio intro Kholofelo: I was recently appointed co-chair of the South African CRF...
View ArticleCHEERS: Rauschenberg Foundation Climate Change Fund Grantee
Together with our partner organization Agents of Change Foundation led by a former youth radio trainer and climate-change activist, Brighton Kaoma, we have been selected to receive funding for our new...
View ArticleSPECIAL PROJECTS: Youth Radio Awards 2015, its time to come together
In just over a weeks time, we will host our third Annual Youth Radio Awards in South Africa! Youth from our project sites around South Africa will gather in Cape Town for the Awards, and also to...
View ArticleDAILY SNAP: Ubuntu Lab youth conference 2015
Last week, we hosted our first ever conference, the ‘Ubuntu Lab’ at the District Six Homecoming Centre in Cape Town. It was a full day of sharing, discussing, listening, dreaming and… spontaneously...
View ArticleWEEKLY HOT TOPIC: Ivory Coast youth selected to attend AMARC
We have 9 young reporters currently attending the 11th International conference of the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC) in Accra, Ghana. Along with members of the Children’s...
View ArticleDAILY DOSE: Neema from Tanzania at AMARC conference
One of our young reporters from Tanzania, Neema Charles Mchacho, 16 recently returned from the community radio station conference, AMARC in Ghana. She shares her experience here of the conference and...
View ArticleDAILY DOSE: Nal’ibali competition to promote a love of reading
The Optimistic Youth Reporters caught the storytelling bug with the Nal’ibali nationwide storytelling competition last Friday at the Harare public library in Khayelitsha, South Africa. The competition...
View ArticleDAILY SNAP: Ruth from DRC shares powerful personal changes
Ruth Imonga is a young reporter from the Mbandaka Youth Reporters in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In the recent radio trainings that promotes the rights of children, Ruth reports that she no...
View ArticleGOOD WORKS: Zambia’s young leaders #Lighting the Way
The Agents of Change Foundation and their bright leaders, Brighton Kaoma and Josephine Pumulo made some marks in history recently, by representing 2 million young Zambians at an event announcing the...
View ArticleSPECIAL PROJECTS: Optimistic Youth Reporters at SAYAS pose questions to...
The South African young academy of science (SAYAS) symposium held in Cape Town recently heard a very different contribution to the topic of science when the Optimistic Youth Reporters from the Centre...
View ArticleSPECIAL PROJECTS: Rock Girl Road trip in South Africa
Rock Girl participants demands an end to violence against girls and women, through their recent road trip in South Africa. From the 2nd to 11th of October, 16 teenage girls from South Africa and the...
View ArticleDAILY SNAP: Successful youth radio training in rural Democratic Republic of...
After an initial community consultation and some focus group discussions, the Children’s Radio Foundation conducted its first training in Bikoro, a small town surrounded by thick equatorial forest and...
View ArticleSPECIAL PROJECTS: High School Radio launched!
Last week we proudly launched our very first high school radio at the Centre of Science and Technology (COSAT) in Khayelitsha, with the Optimistic Youth Reporters as hosts of the debut broadcast. Once...
View ArticleTRAINER PROFILE: Lebo Ntlathi
Lebo Ntlathi is a local lead facilitator from Kurara FM, mentoring the ‘Cracking It’ young reporter team, which she has done since 2012. Lebo hails from the rural areas of Kuruman in the Northern Cape...
View ArticleDAILY SNAP: We meet US LGBTI ambassador, Randy Berry
On Monday 25th January 2016, our new Future Positive Youth Facilitators interviewed Randy Berry and participated in a round table discussion about human rights and LGBTI issues on the African continent...
View ArticleDAILY SNAP: CRF youth talk back to HIV decision-makers
In the lead-up to the International AIDS Conference taking place in July in Durban, South Africa, CRF is making sure young voices are present on that platform. In partnership with the Desmond Tutu HIV...
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