I can’t see, so when my radio was destroyed in the cyclone, I felt very isolated. Now that I have a radio, I feel like I can see!

A blind Monk in Burma who received a radio after cyclone Nargis

Poor information flow is undoubtedly the biggest source of dissatisfaction, anger and frustration among affected people

TEC Thematic Evaluation

If we understand what is going on, we can be patient

A man talking to the CDA Learning Project in Aceh

I would say that registration [of those in camps] would have been almost impossible without the support of the communications teams

CCCM Cluster Coordinator Haiti

“A community without a radio is worth nothing,”....“People have already realized here that without radio the region is dead"

Internews Humanitarian Information Service in Eastern Chad

Rahma Mohamed Ibed

“What they desperately needed was access to local information in a language they understood – could they go home? Where were the local services and who were all these foreigners who said they were coming to help?”

Mark Frohardt, at the time Internews’ Vice President for Africa

“We were trying to be a community safety valve – to sit the two groups down together and find out how they felt about the problems. If we couldn’t get them into the studio we would send the reporters out to the camps.”

Radio Absoun, Chad

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Organisation	Job title	Country	Closing Date
ICRC	ICRC Administrator	United Kingdom	Sat, 2013-03-30
BBC Media Action	Projects Manager, Africa	United Kingdom	Mon, 2013-04-08
UN OCHA	Public Information Officer, P4	Egypt	Sun, 2013-04-14
Internews Europe	Director of Technology (London, UK)	United Kingdom	Sat, 2013-04-20
Save the Children UK	Child Protection Learning and Impact Assessment Adviser	United Kingdom	Sun, 2013-04-28
Merlin	Individual Giving Officer	United Kingdom	Sun, 2013-05-12
Internews	Internews Humanitarian Roster		Wed, 2014-01-01

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