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Protecting your health and the community from agricultural pesticides and fertilizers
Spot # 1: It is dangerous to store fertilizers and foods in the same place This is the sad story of Ahungur. Ahungur kept powdered fertilizer and salt in her kitchen. When she returned from the farm for the day, tired and worn out, Ahungur cooked soup to eat with pounded yam tubers for the…
Maternal Health, Part Two
CHARACTERS: Azuma (Tontie’s wife, also a daughter-in-law to Halosu) Tontie (Azuma’s husband, Halosu’s grown-up son) Halosu (Tontie’s mother, mother-in-law to Azuma) Nurse (A community health nurse, who pays routine visits to the community) SYNOPSIS: Azuma, who got married to Tontie in the first part of this drama, is in labour at home, being attended to…
Maternal Health, Part One
CHARACTERS Meeri Haduong (two women friends married into the same clan, the Buwa clan) SETTING: rural community Scene 1: Gossip on the way to the village waterhole Background to Scene 1: It is the dry season and two women in a hypothetical rural community are on the way to a water hole two miles away to…
Orange sweet potatoes
Music briefly and fade out HOST: Our dear listeners, thank you for tuning in to CBS FM. Welcome to this agricultural show where we are going to talk about orange sweet potatoes and their importance to our communities. During the past years, orange sweetpotatoes were commonly known to be from Soroti, and were available in markets…
Diarrhea: radio spots on a serious disease
Spot # 1: Diarrhea: you can protect yourself! Caution! Diarrhea is a disease that kills. Protect yourself and your children by keeping your environment clean. Wash your hands with soap after defecating and after handling children’s faeces, before preparing food and before eating. Keep your latrines clean. You can protect yourself against diarrhea! Spot #…
Improving water and sanitation in Dindima, Bauchi State, Nigeria
Play signature tune and fade out PRESENTER: Hello and welcome. Today, we begin a three-part series on water and sanitation in Dindima, Bauchi State, Nigeria. I have a guest with me in the studio. (To the guest) First of all, we would like you to introduce yourself. DANLAMI MUHAMMADU RUMFA: I’m happy to be part of the…
Clean water and a clean environment make a better life
Characters Nana Kwaku Forkuo: a village elder and opinion leader Maa Fatima: woman opinion leader Benedict Agyei Boahen: Member of Parliament for the area Vanessa Gyamfuah Agyei Boahen: the assembly member of the local council Some children in the village Cue in signature tune to begin the broadcast. The signature tune fades after 30 seconds…
ECOSAN latrines bring benefits to village health – and farming
Characters Dramane Tounkara: program host Yaba Sacko: a Kantola farmer Baninkono Traoré: Kantola village chief Bakary Bagayogo: agricultural technician, Fana Chamber of Agriculture Ibrahim Maiga Sadio: senior technician in civil engineering and mining at the Regional Center for low cost Potable Water and Sanitation (CREPA) office in Mali Aissata Daba Traoré: midwife at the Fana…
Tichitepo kanthu pakusamalira madz! (Let’s do something about water and sanitation!)
HILDA JAMBO: I am Hilda Jambo, a reporter from Dzimwe Community Radio Station. I am in Nsumbi 1, a remote village in the Monkey-Bay Mangochi district of Malawi, three kilometres from Dzimwe Community Radio Station in Mangochi. Nsumbi 1 village has a population of around 9,000. About 60% of the population are fisherfolk, while the remaining…
Local water committee helps villagers, but especially women and children
Signature tune in, then out slowly HOST: Dear listener, welcome to today’s program. It is well known that water is one of the most important basic needs for human survival. Water has to be clean and safe. A shortage of water causes skin and eye problems as people do not wash. Likewise, unclean water may result…