POWER
Civic
Empowerment and Disability Rights Education:
Project:
Establishing Radio Listening Clubs within LDPA cell groups
Target Group: LDPA Members in 8 Provinces.
Project Description:
The establishment of
the radio and listening clubs in cells follows continued work in Civic
empowerment. Through providing disabled people with the skills to identify
disability rights issues record and produce radio programs greater civic
dialogue on human rights can occur.
LDPA cell group members in
villages throughout Lao record 3 radio segments each month: a story, an
interview and a discussion.
The cell group identifies the
issues involved from the Disability Rights Cake
The cake
highlights 8 areas needed for greater inclusion and include: law, policy
and practice, education, employment, relationships, media and language,
definition, and rights.
These 8 parts of pie form the
basis of recordings in issues affecting people in villages.
Recordings are played to
policy makers and NGOs to create a dialogue based on human rights issues
effecting disabled people and their communities in the Lao PDR.
Recordings are then collated
at LDPA HQ were they are edited and produced into a weekly 30 minute radio
program that is aired on Lao National Radio and two provincial radio stations, Champassak and Xieng Khoung.