India: Training programmes at Namma Dhwani
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Namma Dhwani has gained a reputation of being perhaps the only community radio station in India to cablecast programs made by the community on a daily basis. Namma Dhwani as of date boasts of an archive of more than 800 hours of programming in areas like health, education, legal, governance, and culture and so on. Given this, there are a lot of communities and groups/organisations which approach Namma Dhwani for training either in content production or just to set up a station of their own. Namma Dhwani works with a team of four people who hail from the community of Budikote. All four of them are highly trained and skilled in areas like interviewing skills, presentation skills, editing, mixing and so on. The training is usually conducted for a period of three days which ensures that the training process is holistic and all areas are covered.
Ideally each organisation or community which approaches Namma Dhwani for a series of trainings which involves atleast four or five training camps lasting for three days each. All these trainings are community to community trainings where the community members of Budikote and the Namma Dhwani team interact with the community which has approached Namma Dhwani for training. This ensures that communication is in the local languages and the learning process is efficient. All the people who have attended the training camps have appreciated this unique method of training. See: Community Radio Network |
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