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Ethiopia: ETH Radio, BBC Trust to Stage Youth Event in Adama
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The Daily Monitor (Addis Ababa)
20 March 2008
Posted to the web 21 March 2008
Addis Ababa
The Ethiopian Radio and the BBC' World Service Trust, an international development charity, are to organize youth events in Adama city stadium this weekend in an effort to promote their joint weekly radio broadcasts in Amharic and Oromiffa languages.
The Abugida and Daawwittii Darggagootaa radion programmes are produced by the BBC World Service Trust in partnership with Radio Ethiopia and are funded by the European Commission and HAPCO, a national office for the control of HIV/AIDS.
Several thousand young people are expected to converge on the city stadium for sporting events, quizzes, talent shows and live music from the Zemawit band, a local band.
"The city will be humming with life this coming weekend, when two of the country's most popular radio shows come to town, on Saturday and Sunday (March 22 and 23)," BBCWST said in a statement faxed to The Daily Monitor on Tuesday.
Entitled Celebrating Us, the event being held will give young Ethiopians the chance to hear frank and provocative programming designed to get them talking about sexual and reproductive health issues, According to the statement, the upcoming event has been organised with the help of the programmes' local listener clubs, who will also be staging entertainments of their own during the program.
Support has also come from the local AIDS Resource Centre and Adama City Council, the statement added.
It said said several local and national NGOs will also be participating.
There will also be booths in the stadium offering young people on-the-spot HIV testing, plus helpful advice on sexual and reproductive health.
Among those represented will be DKT, Ethiopian Youth Network (EYN) and Family Guidance Association of Ethiopia (FGAE) and the local Red Cross Society. Also attending will be Anti-AIDS Clubs from Adama Mojo, Wonji and Wolenchiti, together with local high schools.
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"This is going to be the biggest youth event in Nazret so far this year," enthuses event organizer Frehiwot Yilma is quoted as saying in the statement. "I am particularly looking forward to the live advice session on Sunday when we will get a chance to hear just the young people of Nazret." Frehiwot also has nothing but praise for the local voluntary listener groups, run by partner NGOs EYN and FGAE, who give feedback to the programmes.
"They have been just fantastic" she said.
"It is thanks to them that we can guarantee that this will be an exciting two days of fun, whilst still getting over our serious messages about how to look after your sexual health."
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