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Interview

Women Working Together Can Make a Difference in Their Community

October 1, 2000

Characters Program Host Mama Lillian: Woman farmer and mother.  She helped to organize a health care clinic in her village. Program Host: Hello, and welcome to today’s show, “Women and Community.”  If you are a mother, you know how worried you are when your child is sick.  It can be difficult to face a problem when you…

Drama

My Body, Myself: A Bittersweet Choice

October 1, 2000

Characters Lada and her husband Philip. Alwell and his wife Eunice. MUSIC (Program Theme … run for 20-30 seconds then fade under headline). Host:   Coming Up: One woman’s struggle to take charge of her body… MUSIC …bring up Program Theme… Introduction (Host):   Every day we make important decisions about what happens to our bodies…what we eat…

Drama

Land Ownership Rights: Access Denied – Why Women Need Equal Access to Land

October 1, 2000

MUSIC (Bring up program theme or other music…run for 10 seconds…fade under host…). Characters Narrator: Program host. Grace: Woman farmer. She is concerned about women’s right to inherit land. Simon: Grace’s husband. Narrator:   Coming Up: Access Denied…a drama exploring why women need equal access to land. MUSIC (Bring up Program Theme…run for 10 seconds…). Introduction (Narrator) :  They plow it…

Drama

Making Ends Meet

October 1, 2000

Characters Andhra Naidoo: Woman farmer, Ali Naidoo’s wife. Ali Naidoo: Andrha’s husband. MUSIC TO INTRODUCE PROGRAM (Program Theme Music Runs 30 seconds then fades under “coming up” headline…). Host: Coming Up … “Making Ends Meet”… a drama about how one family budgets for lean times … MUSIC (Program Theme Music … bring up theme music and run for…

Drama

A Community School for Boys … and Girls!

October 1, 2000

Characters Narrator: This can be the program host. Mrs. Wanza: Woman farmer. Elizabeth: Mrs. Wanza’s new daughter-in-law. Mrs. Zulu: Woman farmer, and a friend of Mrs. Wanza. Narrator:   Mrs. Wanza is very happy — her eldest son Mackson has just got married!  Mackson and his wife, Elizabeth, are now living with Mrs. Wanza. Elizabeth is new to this village…

Drama

Nutrition – Advice to an Expectant Mother

October 1, 2000

Characters: Narrator: Host of radio program. Elizabeth: Young woman, recently married and moved to her husband’s village. Mrs. Nyanga: Elizabeth’s mother. Narrator:   After walking all morning, Elizabeth has finally arrived at her mother’s village.  This is the first time Elizabeth has visited her mother as a married woman.  Elizabeth is eager to tell her mother, Mrs. Nyanga, all…

Narrative

Women and Credit – Part 3: Women Set Up a Purchasing and Marketing Cooperative

October 1, 2000

Save and edit this resource as a Word document. ANNOUNCER: Today’s program is about the women in our audience. You know how hard you work every day. So why is it so difficult for you to earn an income from your work? If you joined together with other women to buy and sell farm products,…

Drama

Women and Credit – Part 2: Women Start a Revolving Loan Fund

October 1, 2000

Characters Narrator: Program host. Sylvia: Woman farmer. Joyce: Woman farmer, Sylvia’s friend. Program host:   In our last program, we listened to Sylvia and Joyce as they discussed different types of credit that are available to women farmers.  They also talked about how women might use the money they borrow to earn extra income from their farms.  Today, Sylvia…

Drama

Women and Credit – Part 1: Women Learn About Credit

October 1, 2000

Characters Narrator Program host. Sylvia Woman farmer. Joyce Woman farmer, Sylvia’s friend. Program host: Like many of the women in our audience, Sylvia farms a small plot of land and uses most of the food she grows to feed her family.  Sylvia would like to sell vegetables at the local market to make a little extra money, but she…

Narrative

Salma Goes into Business

October 1, 2000

Characters: Narrator: Host of radio program. Salma: 30 years old, mother of five children. Nasreen: Salma’s 12-year-old daughter. Kamal: Salma’s husband. Nasreen: (UPSET) Mother! Come quickly!  The police were here. They’ve taken Father away. Salma: What?!  Nasreen, calm down and tell me what is this nonsense? Nasreen: (CRYING) I saw it myself in the village. Father and two other men were taken…