Tagged with: youth
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A new 'dawn' for young people in Ethiopia
Kirubel Shiferaw and Newal Abubeker
Producers and presenters, Negat
Meet the team behind Negat (Dawn), our new TV and radio programme for young people to address barriers to work and education
Faces of Tanzania - a gender transformative photo series
Joseph Minde
Digital media producer, BBC Media Action Tanzania
Check out our digital producer’s takeover of our Instagram channel and, find out why it is so important for gender equality in Tanzania.
Brave girls valiantly stopping child marriages in Bangladesh
Tasnim Khandoker
Assistant producer, BBC Media Action Bangladesh
Seven inspiring girls, who were 13 or 14 years-old, featured in our popular radio programme Hello Check! They had formed an organisation called 'Ghashforing' (Grasshoppers) to help prevent child marriages taking place in Bangladesh.
World Press Freedom Day 2019: Our youth delegates take Addis Ababa by storm!
Becca Cole
Publicist
For the recent World Press Freedom Day conference (WPFD2019) in Ethiopia, we sponsored two youth delegates – Bwale Mutanuka from Zambia and Kefa Hussein from Tanzania – to take part in the conference's Youth Newsroom initiative. Learn about their action-packed experiences!
With Her: breaking barriers to education for girls in South Sudan
Samuel Komakech
Community Mobilisation Manager
On International Day of the Girl, find out how a radio programme helped a schoolgirl in South Sudan avoid early marriage and return to school by changing the attitude of her grandfather.
Express yourself: asking fresh questions with Facebook Live in Nepal
Pratibha Tuladhar
Senior Producer/Stakeholder Liaison, BBC Media Action, Nepal
Social media is providing a platform for young voices in a new programme called Taja Sawal (Fresh Questions) in Nepal. The studio painted with murals by volunteers illustrates the vibrant and youthful approach to the new show. Pratibha Tuladhar speaks with the two new young presenters to get...
What’s it like to be a teenage mother in Sierra Leone?
Mariama Sesay
Lead Producer, BBC Media Action Sierra Leone
Fanta, who went back to school just three months after giving birth aged 16 is the first person we featured in our new series about young people in the country.
Social media tips from Doctor Who help launch new Palestinian youth drama
Jose Vila
Social Media Manager, Drama, BBC Worldwide
Jose Vila, social media manager for Doctor Who on advising BBC Media Action’s new TV drama in the Palestinian Territories.
Sierra Leone: standing up to crime through radio
Eastina Massaquoi
Producer, BBC Media Action Sierra Leone
How a Comic Relief funded radio programme is helping inspire young people through discussion and positive role models in Sierra Leone.
Somalia: one of the toughest places to give birth in the world
Mohammed A. Gaas
Deputy Country Director, Somalia
A tribute to Amran Mahad, lead actress in Maalmo Dhaama Maanta (A Better Life than Today), an interactive drama helping young people to talk about both the opportunities and the obstacles that they face in Somalia. She died 3 November 2016 following complications during childbirth.
