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AlderbedstNr. 24. Gejst og energi gennem hele arbejdslivet. Med gæst Birgitte Jallov.Hvordan bevarer man energien og gejsten til at blive ved med at arbejde også udover pensionsalderen?Det har vi spurgt dagens gæst Birgitte Jallov om. Hun arbejder nemlig stadigvæk med stor lyst og glæde - i hele verden som international konsulent indenfor udviklingsbistand.Og næsten lige så meget som hele resten af sit liv - selvom hun har rundet 67 år og kunne trække sig tilbage på pension.Birgitte deler sin historie om at hjælpe mennesker og lokalsamfund med at udvikle sig - samt om at hendes hendes arbejde og h...2024-04-1529 min
Mellem osMellem os - Birgitte JallovBirgitte Jallov fra Nexø har brugt hele sit voksenliv på at engagere sig i kampen for kvinders ligestilling i udviklingslande. Det gør hun blandt andet ved at hjælpe lokalsamfund i gang med at lave lokalradio for at give særligt kvinder en stemme i debatten. Ifølge Birgitte Jallov har det blandt andet ændret synet på emner som omskæring og mindsket risikoen for smitte med farlige sygdomme. Hendes CV er lige så langt som listen af besøgte lande, og i Mellem os laver vi nogle nedslagspunkter.2024-01-0431 min
Women on the AirwavesFernanda Maria, Radio Liberdade, Dili, Timor LesteFernanda Maria has worked for 12 years in Radio Liberdade, a community radio in Dili, the capital of Timer Leste. Radio Liberdade works with the 'Fundacão Media Development Centre' working to support women's voices in the media and the voices of other underrepresented groups.Radio Liberdade is one of some 15 community radio stations, struggling for survival, as Fernanda tells us - but she and her station have some ideas about how to turn the stations sustainable! Despite the challenges, new stations appear, not least because the spoken word is so important in a reality with and only 60 % literacy r...2023-11-0731 minWomen on the AirwavesFernanda Maria, Radio Liberdade, Dili, Timor LesteFernanda Maria has worked for 12 years in Radio Liberdade, a community radio in Dili, the capital of Timer Leste. Radio Liberdade works with the 'Fundacão Media Development Centre' working to support women's voices in the media and the voices of other underrepresented groups.Radio Liberdade is one of some 15 community radio stations, struggling for survival, as Fernanda tells us - but she and her station have some ideas about how to turn the stations sustainable! Despite the challenges, new stations appear, not least because the spoken word is so important in a reality with and only 60 % literacy r...2023-11-0632 min
Women on the AirwavesPalmira Velasco, Senior Journalist, Researcher and founder of a women's community radio. MozambiquePalmira Velasco is a senior journalist, who has been at the forefront of democratic journalism in Mozambique, where she in 1987 started as a reporter at the big, state-run daily newspaper Notícias.With the peace accord signed in 1992, after an 18 year war, intercepted by a few free years of socialism, Palmira in 1994 joined a group of journalists that started DEMOS, the first independent weekly.This stood on the shoulders of a 1991 new press law, approved by government after the new democratic constitution (1990) and a year before the final signature to peace. This is how c...2023-10-2535 min
Women on the AirwavesJimena Lopes, Broadcaster in the feminist La Tribu FM, Buenos Aires, ArgentinaJimena Lopez, broadcaster and assembly member of the community radio La Tribu FM, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Jimena Lopez has been a part of the station for nearly ten years, where she has had many different roles. Right now she is a part of the station’s communication team, responsible for Social media and other communication activities. She is also in the Station’s assembly made up by 20 core people, responsible for overall management, which meets up every second month.La Tribu started in 1989 and has been going uninterrupted since. Since 2006, when...2023-09-2635 min
Women on the AirwavesCatherine Vhutuza, Vemuganga Community Radio, Chipinge, ZimbabweCatherine Vhutuza is a broadcaster in the Ndau-speaking Vemuganga community radio in Chipinge. Catherine focused on strengthening the voice and rights of women including in areas of land rights and violence against women.Vemuganga Community Radio Vemuganga Community Radio (VCR) is a registered Trust established to heighten the creation of a reliable and direct platform for the people of Zimbabwe and in particular the Ndau speaking people of Chipinge in Manicaland to enter into dialogue and analytical discussion among themselves and decide for themselves on changes that affect their lives so that...2023-09-2325 min
Women on the AirwavesKadi Souley Bonkano, Developing a women's radio in Niamey, NigerI met Kadi Souley Bonkano in Niger’s capital city Niamey first time in 2007, when she was a broadcaster in the local community radio, Radio Anfani and again in 2013 in the office of APAC, Association des professionnelles africaines de la communication, the Media Women’s Association there, where I was preparing a new project for the Danish Embassy, including women and media issues. Kadi was preparing a Women’s Community Radio station back then, and we stayed in touch.Kadi all along worked to develop the women’s radio based in a local women’s association she had founded, c...2023-09-2329 min
Women on the AirwavesJubiel M. Zulu, Zambia, journalist and women's rights advocateHi, we’re back: Women on the global community airwaves! Today's episode brings us to Southern Africa, to Zambia’s capital Lusaka, where I talk with Jubiel Zulu, an award-winning journalist and media and communication specialist. Now working as a District Information Officer in Zambia's Eastern Province. When we spoke, Jubiel was still in Kwithu FM, in the capital Lusaka, where she has worked for the past ten years. Here she integrated issues of importance to women and women’s lives in the general programming: political, economic, social, cultural. In our conversation Jubiel gives examples of how the progra...2023-08-3035 min
Women on the AirwavesKanchan K.Malik, India, professor, advocate, learner and trainer with a focus on women's space in community radioKachan K. Malik (PhD) is a university professor at the University of Hyderabad and is a Faculty Fellow with the ‘UNESCO Chair on Community Media’, there, where she unfolds her work in support of community media in India and in South Asia. Kanchan presents herself as a researcher, learning from the powerful people building community media where her journeys take her.Kanchan has been with the Department of Communication, UoH, since 2007, where she also served as Head from 2017-20. She has been a Faculty Fellow with the ‘UNESCO Chair on Community Media’ since 2011, an Editor of the e-ne...2023-08-2934 min
Women on the AirwavesOlena Zinenko, Kharkiv, Ukraine, about community media, women, culture and the warOlena Zinenko from Kharkiv in Ukraine, takes us in this episode through the recent media history of Ukraine, where communication - and culture - has gotten a whole new importance in the present war situation, where also new voices are heard in new ways. As she says: the state media, the commercial and oligarch media create media products – she and her colleagues focus in their media production on processes, on creating understanding and of becoming. A peace activist and a media consultant at the Centre of Gender Culture’s Media Laboratory, Olina has worked with multimedia reportage workshops and creative jour...2023-08-2327 min
Women on the AirwavesCaroline Mitchell, UK, a lifetime of work to secure women's voices in community radio in the UKProfessor (PhD) of radio, researcher, networker and beyond and above all a feminist activist, Caroline Mitchell has since she joined 'Women's Airwaves' worked to turn her professional and social engagement real, through strengthening women and women's voices with a focus to ensure space, justice and empowerment for and of women. Fem FM - an 8-day radio licence in 1992 - co-created by Caroline, planned for a year, housed in a borrowed 4-storey building, filled with the 200 women (two hundred women, Caroline insists) who had taken holidays or in other ways made the dream of a lifetime come true: UK's first all...2023-08-2236 min
Women on the AirwavesSaritha Thomas, India, Founding Director People's Power CollectiveSaritha Thomas || Managing Trustee, PPC India | Director, PPC UKPPC's founder and driving force, Saritha has nurtured a lifelong love for radio. In this episode Saritha takes us through her own voyage into and with community radio as a people's communication and development platform, and we learn about the community radio station Mandakini Ki Awaz in Bhaduj village in Uttarakhand state in the far north of India, in the Himalaya's, neighbouring Nepal. We learn about how it became known as a women's radio station, not by Saritha's design, but as the women were the most interested, courageous and...2023-04-0535 min
Women on the AirwavesWomen on the Air in Europe 1983“Women on the air - Women in (Community) Radio in Europe” *** This podcast is a recording of my cassette bringing you the sounds and the atmosphere of what women’s community radio in 1983 in Europe was. The directory and the travel before that are the earliest known attempt to systematically document women’s engagement in (community) radio in (Western) Europe in the early 80s (1983). You can dive into the directory here – and understand the framework and background in this article invited for a centennial celebration by women in UK on the occasion of BBC’s 100 year. All I can say is –...2023-03-2645 min
Women on the AirwavesWelcome to Women on the Global Community Airwaves!Women on the Global Airwaves is a podcast series bringing you stories from around the world. The stories are brought to you by me, Birgitte Jallov, who has worked in this area for a lifetime from within my initiative: EMPOWERHOUSE. In many realities women’s voices are among those least heard and women are often not being respected with equal access to their human rights.Women in community radio anre working to change these narratives and realities. They ensure that women’s voices and stories and sharing their life and realities in the publ...2023-03-1809 min
Women on the AirwavesRose-Haji Mwalimu, Tanzania, Women's Rights and Community Radio SpecialistRose-Haji Mwalimu, a women’s rights and press freedom activist, a community radio advocate, trainer and supporter and a voice for women’s equal access to the airwaves has been active in these fields for a lifetime. Known, recognized and loved in every one of the 35 community radio stations in Tanzania, she has trained and mentored, she is simply known as ‘Mama Rose’ – a name she is proud of, and which is being used far beyond the radio stations and Tanzania’s borders.Rose has among many other things been active since her early 20s – more than 30 years ago – with the...2023-03-1630 min
Women on the AirwavesGwendolyn Gay L. Gaongen, Philippines, Station Manager Radyo Sagada, CordilleraGwen is the station manager of the Radyo Sagada. The station has been on air since 2011 and Gwen has been on of the radio team since then. Conceptualized in 2003, it only went on air in an experimental mode in 2010 and for real in 2011. It is the Philippines’ only indigenous peoples’ radio located in the mountain province, the Condillera, in the north of the main Luzon island.The station came into existence on the initiative of a progressive former mayor and a community elder. They called on the civil society organisations of the area. Women have had an important role...2023-03-1333 min
Women on the AirwavesKarolina Rogóz-Namiotka, Poland, Radio UWM, OlsztynKarolina Rogóz-Namiotko is the creator, creator and presenter of "Lejdi Gada - women at the microphone". It is a program broadcast on student radio UWM FM in Olsztyn (Poland) about women who fulfill themselves in life through passion and work.The guests of Karolina Rogóz-Namiotko are female soldiers, psychologists, priests, cooks, dressmakers, entrepreneurs, presidents, mothers, etc. The host of the show, Karolina, believes that the woman who acts with passion and commitment is able to inspire more women to change for the better. It is a program about self-development, self-acceptance and self-esteem.Karolina Rogóz-N...2023-03-0726 min
Women on the AirwavesSiphathisiwe Ncube, Zimbabwe, Radio Ntepe-Manama, GwandaSiphathisiwe has worked with Ntepe-Manama Community Radio based in Gwanda, Matabeleland South , Zimbabwe for 10 years. Since 2013 the community has been organising, training and advocating for access to get licenses.The station finally got its licence and sending permission in 2022 as one of the first community radios to go on air in Zimbabwe. During the almost 10 year period prior to this, the community brought out community news and information via whats app, facebook and twitter.As Siphathisiwe says in the interview, the station is based in the deep rural area of Matabeleland South where there used to...2023-03-0731 min
Women on the AirwavesSharon Bhagwan-Rolls, Co-Founder of FemLINKpacific (Coordinated the organisation 2000 - 2018)Sharon has for the past more than 20 years has worked to empower women – young women, rural women, women living with disabilities and women in the LGBTQI circles - through engaging them in the media and getting an empowered and insightful voice. In this process and through the organisation she founded, FemLINKpacific, she has helped found and form robust and sustainable women’s community media platforms in Fiji and other Pacific Island countries.Sharon is a second-generation Fiji Island feminist working on the intersection of gender, media, communications and peace by supporting the development and production of appropriate and acce...2023-03-0733 min
Women on the AirwavesMaru Chavez, Mexico, Radio VioletaRadio Violeta went on air in 2019 as a feminist community radio station in Mexico City. The station has xx women involved and broadcast 24/7.The station has around 150.000 listeners and receive regular feed-back from women listeners stressing the importance to have the station, which covers issues of special importance to women, which is covered no-where else. Radio Violeta consciously challenges the traditional ways of the media and aim to transform communication to be more real: real women’s real voices covering all the issues of importance in women’s lives.Come join us!2023-03-0729 min
Terms Of Reference PodcastTOR062: Empowerhouse and Community Radio with Birgette JallovBirgitte Jallov is an independent communication and media specialist and the founder of Empowerhouse.
Since 1980, she has worked with community radio for development, empowerment and social change. This includes the development of a series of special tools, organisation forms and methodologies for community organisations to enact change in more than 60 countries and 250 assignments over the years.2015-03-1634 min