Many communities in the developing world lack basic health education, significantly reducing their life expectancy. In matters of life and death – Feba is helping to bring life. Watch the new This is Feba video to see how.
Feba enables health professionals to use radio to address issues like nutrition, sanitation, and maternal and infant health, helping people live healthier and longer lives.
For example, in Nepal, Feba has partnered in the CoRIN (Community Radio Initiative in Nepal) project to establish community service radio stations in rural mountainous regions. “The local producers are creating all kinds of healthcare, nutritional programmes… a lot of stuff about mothers and babies, safe delivery and post-delivery… agricultural programmes are quite big,” says Sean MacKenzie, Ministry Specialist (South Asia).
Vijay, the CoRIN Project Coordinator, invites you to see and hear the radio station in Dadeldhura in his Aafno FM, Community Radio, Nepal video. Listeners often write to the station staff about what they have learned. In the video, Vijay reads a letter from a 12-year-old listener, demonstrating how the programmes can impact families in the community: “Daddy, don’t smoke; your hands smell bad. Daddy, don’t smoke; your mouth smells bad. Be careful; it may cause you tuberculosis. It may cause you lung cancer. You give me advice, ideas and knowledge. You are very wise man, so why do you smoke? Smoke kills your life, so Daddy please don’t smoke.”
In rural places, parents often take their sick children to witchdoctors, unaware of free healthcare services in a nearby community. Feba programmes are connecting them with life-saving information. This gives people like Nischal a much better chance of a longer, happier life.
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This 4-minute video takes a look at people like Nischal, Shakti and Halim, people in hard-to-reach areas of the world, who have hit barriers in their life (whether it’s poor health, conflict in the community or no education in their language). Feba’s broadcasts connect people with solutions they can use to help themselves overcome these barriers.
You can view the new This is Feba video here by clicking on the image to start it. (NOTE: The file size is quite large, so it may take some time to load. To download it, right-click on the link and Save Target As to your hard drive.)