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What we are doing

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The project has five primary objectives:

  • Pressing for reform of Guatemala’s telecommunications law.
  • Strengthening community radio stations’ ability to produce quality content for broadcast to Indigenous peoples throughout the country.
  • Training community radio volunteers with skills in journalism, lobbying, content creation, radionovela script-writing, and Internet use.
  • Assisting the radio stations and the seven radio associations to build a viable network to aid in the acquisition of needed news gathering, communication, and broadcast equipment.
  • Building local capacity to sustain the project beyond Cultural Survival’s five-year involvement.


 

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...15 different languages represented...

...168 radio stations...

...More than 1300 volunteers...

...Over One Million Listeners...

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Slideshow

A Mayan woman volunteering at her community station
"Without community radio, our people would remain in silence."- Santiago Ajcalon Juluajuj, founder of Radio Juventud,  Solola.
People of San Juan, Cotzal vote 'Yes' to the founding of a community radio in their village.
"The entire community gives us their support.  We are not a pirate radio station." - Santiago Ajcalon of Sololá
Reading up on Cultural Survival literature in San Juan Cotzal
Volunteers at Radio Ixchel, Sumpango
Juana Sanchez, of the Organization of Indigenous Women Workers, gives her support to community radio.
Using cell phones, radio workers live broadcast to their communities from the National Congress.
Noé Ismalej of Radio Uqul Tinamit records an interview about coffee production at Finca Azotea.
Abraham Caná and Adelaito Sotz Gomez declare their radio station will persevere, despite being raided by government police.
Tropical Storm Agatha hits Guatemala
Tropical Storm Agatha hits Guatemala 2
President of Guatemala Congress (speaking) meets with Cultural Survival
Mayan protestors in Guatemala City
grp lobby

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