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Film to air on Reuters' Africa Journal, Wednesday May 2nd 2007!

Some opportunities are too wonderful to pass up, no matter how unexpected!


Just this past month, the Reuters photo-journalist for Madagascar offered us the chance to be the subject of a film, all about the creation of our community radio project.

We accepted, and within days she had arrived -- then spending almost five full days more with us in village, with her eye, her lens, her heart, and her mind all focused on capturing the impact of the Radio that has been felt in the community thus far, as well as our past trials and obstacles, and of course the community's hopes, dreams, and fears for the future of its beautiful new Radio Meva Ankarana.PCV with president of Radio's founding association and board of directors
Two films, rather, will be made: one for the use of Africa Journal, and one for the use of the Radio itself, an important tool for RMA to utilize both in "reporting" to those who have given their support to the Radio project in the past as well as to motivate others to give their support in the future (or renew past support).

The Radio still has a long way to go before it becomes a fully stable, functional statio -- right now, for example, we are working hard to get together the 500,000 Ariary (about $250) required by the national copyright-protection authority (OMDA), before the month of may. This must come from profits that the radio brings in through both its broadcast-related and community-center activities -- which also should produce enough to provide a small compensation for all of the work ours that our eager team of DJ preserters has put in...
Meanwhile, we're already experiencing technical difficulties with the charge controllers of the solar array, forced to "fix up" what barely ever began to go! And so, we are running on less than the ideal quantity of hours-of-broadcast per day, but the team is truly redoubling its efforts to make the brief daily programming as wonderful as possible, so as to get as much listener support as possible in financing the OMDA -- and hence keeping the doors of RMA legally open!

With the movie, as well, we will be all the more equipped to secure external partnerships to support the radio.kids coloring in community room at RMA

Film clips and many many more photos coming soon!!





















Thanks a million to Jasleen Kaur Sethi, Reuters correspondent for Madagascar and extraordinary photographer / cinematographer!
You have given us the chance to share RMA and our village to the world in a way we never even imagined.
to see more of Jaz's beautiful photography, please
click here.
the film-stress herself


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