Resources: Case Studies - Media

Radio 1 is one of the biggest radio stations in Haiti. It broadcasts nationwide and online to a diaspora audience. The station also has an international landline. It was one of the few largely undamaged by the January 12^th earthquake. In particular, the Internet connection survived. One of the first staff members to go back to the station in the hours after the disaster was music manager and DJ Carel Pedre, a well-known Haitian broadcaster and social media enthusiast with a strong Facebook presence and a Twitter feed followed by thousands.

“I was at home with my wife in Terre Neuve in January one night when I started feeling unwell. I quickly began developing symptoms, including diahorrea. From the IOM [International Organisation for Migration] leaflet we had at home I recognised the symptoms as cholera, and I knew I needed to get help immediately even though it was 1am. We had no car, so we went to the house of René Eugene, who I knew worked with IOM on cholera. He put me in the back of his truck and drove me for three hours to a cholera treatment centre in Gonaives, where they took me in and gave me treatment.

The Canadian Red Cross (CRC) is one of the few organisations that implemented local-level radio work with their weekly broadcast in Leogane (1). Starting in March 2011, they began hosting a weekly 30-minute long interactive radio show about their work on Radio Belval.

Tripoli/Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Libyan Red Crescent are launching today a three-week radio campaign to raise awareness of the risks of explosive remnants of war among the population. The danger exists in different places in Libya, but the campaign is primarily addressing people who are gradually returning to their homes in Sirte and Bani Walid. The heavy fighting which took place until last month left the two cities seriously contaminated by such devices.