"I want to thank Internews for all the great work it’s been doing, especially in Kenya, because it’s been training journalists and for the past three years all the top journalists that are winning awards in Kenya, have been trained by Internews. And most recently in the work it’s been doing in humanitarian journalism training, where it’s helping to foster dialogue in the communities that were worst affected by violence. These communities, mostly in the Rifti Valley, have started talking because of the training that Internews is doing with the journalists."
— Tole Nyatta, journalist and journalism trainer, Pamoja FM, Kenya, at the 2008 Internews Media Leadership Awards
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Tole Nyatta is a 29-year-old radio journalist currently working at Pamoja FM, a community radio station based in Nairobi’s Kibera slum, one of the largest slums in Africa. He is also a journalism trainer at the station. Pamoja FM transmits to an audience of about 1.2 million people. It was started by a few retired journalists, born and brought up in Kibera slum.
“We took up the challenge, and in stride it has been very challenging because of the limitation of resources and facilities and lack of trained personnel,” says Nyatta. “We are however optimistic that things will someday in the near future change for the better.”
Pamoja FM has proved to be a reliable and impartial source of information, to the extent that other mainstream media houses turn to it for information on Kibera. In the recent past, Pamoja FM has been a source of information to local media houses like Nation TV and Kiss FM as well as regional and international media like the BBC, Al-Jazeera, and ITV.
Tole Nyatta is a 29-year-old radio journalist currently working at Pamoja FM, a community radio station based in Nairobi’s Kibera slum, one of the largest slums in Africa. He is also a journalism trainer at the station. Pamoja FM transmits to an audience of about 1.2 million people. It was started by a few retired journalists, born and brought up in Kibera slum. 