Published 03-26-09
Submitted by PCI-Media Impact
March 26, 2009 - PCI Media Impact, a not-for-profit organization with over 25 years of experience inspiring global social change through storytelling and broadcast media, has selected eight coalitions of grassroots organizations for the 2009 My Community program. Created by Media Impact in 2005, My Community consists of educational and entertainment radio broadcasts and local outreach initiatives across Latin America promoting awareness and socially responsible practices in the areas of reproductive health, human rights, and the environment. In the past four years, My Community has impacted the lives of over 600 local community members through communication social change methodology training and the production of 36 radio dramas improving knowledge, attitude and behavior to an audience of over 17 million people. PCI Media Impact is proud to announce that the 2009 My Community program is releasing eight new radio broadcasts that will reach over 12 million listeners.
Congratulations to the 8 community organizations selected for the 2009 My Community program:
In November 2008, PCI Media Impact narrowed 50 My Community applicants to 10 groups of social entrepreneurs, which included health service providers, NGOs, community radio stations, and government ministries. These selected coalitions were then trained in communication for social change methodology, social marketing, radio production, and evaluation techniques. In 2009, Media Impact is assisting the eight chosen organizations with their research, production of entertainment-education radio drama series, partnerships with local providers, activities to promote community participation, and a sustainability plan. Currently, Media Impact's field staff and the community coalitions are in the pre-production stage. My Community's 2009 radio drama broadcasts will be covering issues of sexual and reproductive health in Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, and Guatemala, and environmental sustainability and ecotourism in Mexico, Nicaragua, Honduras, and Ecuador.
Through My Community, PCI Media Impact strives to:
Improve knowledge, attitudes, and practices of important community issues.
The My Community radio dramas are grounded in social learning theory, and include positive characters who are rewarded, negative characters who are punished and transitional characters who embody the difficult choices we all face in life.
PCI-Media Impact is at the forefront of innovative social change communications programming. Its pioneering approach uses creative media, the power of storytelling and the reach of broadcast media to mobilize individual, community and political action in the areas of sexual and reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, environmental conservation and sustainable development, human rights and democracy.
For over twenty years, its programming has captured people's imagination. Media Impact has trained hundreds of organizations and community leaders in the effective use of media. Working with media professionals, it has completed more than 242 productions, including radio and television serial dramas, comic books, documentaries and public service announcements reaching hundreds of millions of people in 27 countries around the world.
From Mexico to India, Kenya to China, Media Impact has been: "Telling Stories, Saving Lives." For more information, please visit the website at www.mediaimpact.org.
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