{"id":2497,"date":"2012-01-06T22:52:25","date_gmt":"2012-01-07T02:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=2497"},"modified":"2012-01-06T22:52:25","modified_gmt":"2012-01-07T02:52:25","slug":"radio-literacy-program-in-zabul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/radio-literacy-program-in-zabul\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Literacy program in Zabul"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Source: DVIDS<\/a>\u00a0via\u00a0Kim Andrew Elliot<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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(Photo credit: DVIDS)<\/p><\/div>\n

FORWARD OPERATING BASE LAGMAN, Afghanistan \u2013 It\u2019s said that education is power and nowhere is that truer than in Zabul province, Afghanistan, where for a time the Taliban controlled the populace by means of intimidation which included preventing people there from working at, or having their children attend school. The end-result was an undereducated, illiterate people who were powerless to prevent their schools from being under-populated, underfunded and undermanned, which in-turn allowed the Taliban to control the dissemination of knowledge \u2013 and therefore power \u2013 in Zabul province.<\/p>\n

[…]Villagers that participate in the project receive one Radio Literacy handbook per family \u2013 sometimes two if theirs is a large family \u2013 which includes 15 weekly modules, and forty-some odd lessons, all of which are very rudimentary.<\/p>\n

[…]In addition to the Radio Literacy handbook, participating villagers also receive 1 hand-crank radio per family which can receive AM and FM frequencies, as well as shortwave 1 and shortwave 2. Shortwave radio, more commonly known as ham radio in the United States, is able to reach areas where AM and FM frequencies cannot.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Source: DVIDS\u00a0via\u00a0Kim Andrew Elliot) FORWARD OPERATING BASE LAGMAN, Afghanistan \u2013 It\u2019s said that education is power and nowhere is that truer than in Zabul province, Afghanistan, where for a time the Taliban controlled the populace by means of intimidation which included preventing people there from working at, or having their children attend school. 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