Ethiopian Civil Service University Community Radio, trains volunteers
Ethiopian Civil Service University Community Radio, FM 100.5, trains volunteers in collaboration with the University’s Public and External Relation Office on September 3, 2015 at the stations hall.
The training focused on techniques in writing news, planning production of radio program, rules of community radio station, ethics of journalists, editorial policy. The training will enable participants to operate equipment, produce programs and news articles.
At the opening of the training, the station manager Ms. Eden Bushra said, “this is the beginning, in the future we plan different kinds of trainings that build your capacity in different aspects." She promised to prepare different trainings while they are serving in the station.
Some of the participant said that the training will help them to effectively discharge their duties and they also need different kinds of trainings that makes them professional journalist.
At the closing of the training Ms. Eden said that community radios should have a social agenda and provide profound new opportunities for inclusive sustainable development. Furthermore, community radio works in the cultural context of the community it serves; it deals with local issues in the local language or languages, it is relevant to local problems and concerns. Its aim is to help the community to develop socially, culturally and economically.