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When Information Saves Lives
Engaging Local Media in Humanitarian Crises
DONORS
Internews is grateful to the donors who have made it possible for us to conduct the humanitarian media work described in these pages.
- Indonesia - tsunami: The US Agency for International Development (USAID), the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the British Department for International Development (DFID), and the Dutch NGO HIVOS.
- Pakistan - earthquake: DFID, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, the US Department of State’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor and individual donors.
- Chad – refugees and IDPs: USAID’s Office of Transition Initiatives, the US State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, UNHCR, JWW/Equal Access, AJG Foundation, Richard Marks, and DFID.
- Indonesia - earthquake: USAID and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
- Sri Lanka – tsunami and IDPs: USAID.
- Kenya – post-election violence: Pact/USAID.
- Gaza - war: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Arca Foundation, C. Crane Company, individual donors.
- Southeast Asia – avian flu: UNICEF, the Government of Japan, UN Food and Agriculture Organization, and the US State Department Task Force on Avian Influenza.
Internews Sri Lanka |
| REBUILDING THE MEDIA IN POST—TSUNAMI SRI LANKA: After the Asian tsunami, Internews set up mobile radio production units in tsunami-affected areas of Sri Lanka. For six months these units produced a daily 40-minute radio program—in both Tamil and Sinhalese—that told the story of the reconstruction through the voices of those affected. The journalists received training in how to produce and package field-based reports—a groundbreaking format in Sri Lankan radio—and worked with government agencies, humanitarian relief agencies and local community groups to provide information to people uprooted by the disaster. |
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