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"Tell your presenters not to talk during the songs because we want to hear every word of the music you play because your songs have meaning and we hate missing anything!" so says a tailor from northern Mozambique, who is a listener to Radio Nuru.

“God has allowed the skies to open up in the part of Africa where we work. We have reports that the people are very happy because the rains have thoroughly drenched the area over several days. The vast dusty plains have been turned into mud, and dormant seeds of grass have already begun to germinate,” reports the project coordinator working with the People Group ‘A’ in northeastern Africa.

Over the past three weeks, our newsbriefs have featured special stories that relate to the new Feba logo and have unpacked its tag line: life. change. hope. It seems very appropriate then to wrap up this series by hearing comments directly from Feba’s listeners.

Feba Middle East’s Jerry Wilson says: “There are a lot of people out there who do not have much hope. They often live in a difficult country with high unemployment, lack of water, growing rebel violence.

Feba longs to see practical, social and spiritual change as our programmes educate, raise awareness, inform and entertain.

Feba’s programmes address life issues relevant to our listeners, in their heart language, in culturally appropriate ways.

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Celeste smiling in wheelchair

Lives are being changed for the better – and bringing real hope to the hard-to-reach! In rural Mozambique, Feba staff found an unusual, practical way to help one of their listeners. Thanks to our supporters’ generosity. Radio can reach remote people and places.

rural village map

Researcher Theo Hannides met up with ICMS and other researchers to spend three weeks trekking through rural communities in Nepal to learn what the villagers’ greatest needs were.

baby camels update

A drought in an east African country worsens. Its Prime Minister fears publicly that around 6.2million of his people are at risk of starvation. [Some details have been omitted for security reasons]

Nepali men in parade

Should languages spoken by smaller communities be actively preserved or allowed to die out? What is lost when a language dies? Does the use of a few, widely-spoken languages aid not only understanding, but equality and peace?