[grc] seeking console, laptops for Ghana

[Jim Ellinger]

*
**
**As we have in the past, we are calling out to the**
**greater North American Community Radio community**
seeking donations of much needed radio gear.
**
**Specifically we are seeking two or three working laptop
computers. They must be able**to contain audio/editing/
DJing software. _Laptops must be in_**_good working condition_,
with all cables and accessories. (NO 'boat**anchors'!)

Hand held digital audio recorders. Fully functional, new in the
box would be nice. NO BATTERIES.
**
**We are also seeking a fully functional multi channel audio/studio**
**console.  Console can be full size, but must not be larger/heavier**
**than a single person (that would be me) can carry.  (Or not.)

_You must pay for delivery to Austin Airwaves in Austin__, TX_.
**
**AA is a IRS recognized non-profit, educational organization. Your**
**donation may be tax deductible.  AA is working with ACDI/VOCA**
**and Farmer to Farmer on it's third radio assignment to Ghana.
AA has been an active member of AMARC since 1986.
**
**AA has delivered to training and equipment to many, many**places
around the world, including: Panama, Mozambique, Kathmandu,**
**Borneo, Nicaragua (one hundred audio cassettes, 1988), Tunisia
(2 World Social Forums), Haiti (post-**quake, 300 lbs of gear, an
entire station in three boxes, in conjunction with AMARC), as well
as Stateside, NOLA and Houston (post-Katrina) and most**recently,
wonderful Wimberley, TX, six days after the deadly Memorial Day
2015 floods. *

_*Deliveries must reach Austin, TX no later than Tuesday, March 1st*_*.**

**Austin Airwaves, Inc. **
**Radio Loading Dock**
**620 Fairfield Lane**
**Austin, TX 78751**
**(512) 796-4332**
**
**_US Mail to_:**
**P. O. Box 49492 **
**Austin, TX  78765

Thank you,   jim ellinger
AA/AMARC/ACDI/VOCA/F2F
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*Thank you Jim,**
* *The old broken console was a 12 channel and the current one is 8 
channel oxy type.**
* *I am actually looking for a console with the features that will allow 
phone connection that **
**could allow call-ins and call-outs. Another feature could be some 
delay process of call-ins.**
* *The microphone connection for panel discussion of about 4- 6 people 
in the studio.**
**C**onnection for internet and computers for on-air programmes and also 
for recording of **
**off-air programmes.**
* *I hope I am making sense for you to identify the type that will also 
be Rural African **
**environment.**   Thank you once again. **
* *Lydia Ajono**   Radio Gurune 99.3FM**
* *P.O.Box 347**Bolgatanga*
website:http://www.radioguruneonline.org

My name is Lydia Ajono from Bolgatanga in the Upper East Region Ghana. I 
am the Executive Director of Radio Gurune99.3FM. Radio Gurune is a 
Community Radio operated by the Gurune Community broadcasting and 
Multimedia Initiative. I am gender advocate,trainer of broadcasting 
techniques,community development mobilizer and research, I also have 
in-depth knowledge in participatory communication radio productions and 
knowledge sharing processes among other uses of ICTs in facilitating 
citizenship participation in governance etc. I am fascinated about this 
YENKASA programme and would be happy to participate in the program as 
well as my Radio Station.


*W93.5 in Wa, Ghana*
http://www.w935fm.com/
*XR276A, La France Road, Kpaguri, Wa, Upper West Region*
*Daily, we strive to provide quality reporting on local, national and 
international issues including ample live coverage and field reporting 
methods all of which inspire us to unearth the untold stories of the 
region. Our commitment to providing accurate, reliable and valuable 
information, particularly to women, the youth, farmers and the business 
community underpins everything we do. Our vision is to be a valued, 
vital and vibrant radio service that aims to advance the economic, civic 
and cultural development of the communities we serve.

**February 13th is World Radio Day! /Tune In!/*
**/Radio in Emergency and Disaster Situations
/**http://www.diamundialradio.org/news/special-broadcast-saturday-13-february-listen-broadcast-or-share*
*http://www.iasa-web.org/event/world-radio-day-2016
http://www.amarc.org/?q=node/1095

*WINGS' Frieda Werden interviews Wimberley Valley Radio's Susan Raybuck 
about signing their LPFM station on the air six days after the deadly 
2015 Memorial Day Floods in Wimberley, TX, AND Austin Airwaves' Jim 
Ellinger about emergency radio responses in Haiti, (post-earthquake) 
NOLA and Houston (post-Katrina).*

Jean-Francois Riffaud, Campaign coordinator World Radio Day, spoke about 
the preparations towards World Radio Day February 13th, 2016. This year 
the focus would be “*/Radio in Emergency and Disaster Situations/*”. We 
would look into five specific situations:

  * Freed of expression (a disaster or emergency situation shouldn’t be
    a excuse to curtail freedom of expression)
  * Radio empower survivors and vulnerable people, whose right to
    privacy is to be respected. This is why UNESCO defends community
    radios, as they are the voice of vulnerable people.
  * Radio saves lives. Radio prepares people to response to catastrophes
    and helps them to rebuild their files after a disaster.
  * Immediate accessibility of radio frequencies is essential to saving
    lives. There are emergency frequencies that are reserved for these
    kind of situations, but are not respected by some radio operators.

*"Radio has been a fundamental means for Indigenous Peoples to maintain 
their languages and to exercise and defend their rights." As recognized 
by the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, 
Article 16

1. *Indigenous peoples have the right to establish their own media in 
their own languages and access to all other non-Indigenous media without 
discrimination.*2.* States shall take effective measures to ensure that 
the media duly reflect indigenous cultural diversity. States, without 
prejudice to ensuring full freedom of expression, should encourage 
privately owned media to adequately reflect indigenous cultural diversity."

Community radio stations...serve the vital function of distributing 
information about important news and educational programing like 
emergency disaster relief, voter registration, public health campaigns 
to listeners in their own local languages, reaching even the most rural 
areas where radio is the only affordable form of communication. For 
Indigenous communities, community radio provides access to programming 
in their own languages and promotes their cultures, traditions, and 
belief systems.