Community radio broadcast
KESAN supports Karen community radio program aims to provide current news on political, social, cultural, economic and environmental issues to the Karen people, covering Burma, Thai-Burma border and overseas. As Karen people are displaced in different areas, the Karen community radio project is an essential way to share information, to strengthen communication and to learn about the current situation. The current existing mainstream radio broadcast stations cover issues of Burma; however, there is insufficient news to cover the issue of each ethnic group including Karen ethnicity.
Through collaboration with Pwolo Radio Station in Mutraw District and radio stations operated by KSNG in refugee camps along the border, KESAN collaborates with local community radio volunteers to create programs that are informative and useful for Karen communities. Radio programs include content on environmental issues, destructive development and alternative approaches, Indigenous knowledge and the role Indigenous people in conservation, Indigenous peoples’ rights, Free Prior and Informed Consent, and others.
KESAN provides equipment and training to empower the community radio volunteers to carry out interviews, research stories, and run the radio station by themselves.
