{"id":38759,"date":"2019-07-30T12:51:39","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T16:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=38759"},"modified":"2019-07-30T12:51:39","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T16:51:39","slug":"voa-launches-rohingya-language-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/voa-launches-rohingya-language-program\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;VOA Launches Rohingya Language Program&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_38760\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/VOA-Lifeline-e1564505197779.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38760\" class=\"wp-image-38760 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/VOA-Lifeline-e1564505197779.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-38760\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teachers gather with VOA Learning English instructor at the end of training. (Source: Inside VOA)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributors, Eric McFadden and Bruce who share the following item <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/07\/30\/746492542\/voice-of-america-launches-rohingya-broadcast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">from NPR<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Voice of America has begun a daily radio show in Rohingya, the language spoken by Muslim refugees who have been forced to flee Myanmar. The program is called &#8220;Lifeline.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/player\/embed\/746492542\/746492543\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/07\/30\/746492542\/voice-of-america-launches-rohingya-broadcast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read\/listen at NPR.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidevoa.com\/a\/voa-launches-rohingya-language-program\/5019593.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Inside VOA<\/a> published the following press release:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>VOA Launches Rohingya Language Program<\/h2>\n<p>Today the\u00a0<a class=\"wsw__a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.voabangla.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Voice of America\u2019s Bangla language service\u00a0<\/a>started a five-day-a-week radio show in Rohingya, the language spoken by Muslim refugees that have fled Myanmar. More than 800,000 people have taken refuge at the Kutupalong camp, one of the world\u2019s largest refugee camps at the Myanmar-Bangladesh border.<\/p>\n<p>Titled Lifeline, the 30-minute radio show, is available through short and medium wave signals. The program focuses on the lives and needs of the refugees, providing them with valuable information on security, family reunification, food rations, available shelter, education and health including vaccinations and water purification. In addition, a daily segment of the program offers the refugees the opportunity to share their stories, extend greetings to their families and learn about the hazards of joining extremists groups. One overarching objective of the broadcast is to counter Muslim extremists\u2019 narratives and recruitment efforts in the camps and inform the Rohingya about the U.S. and the international community\u2019s involvement in the crisis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter visiting Cox\u2019s Bazaar and the Kutupalong refugee camp last year, it became obvious to me that we needed to address the informational needs of these people caught in the fastest growing refugee crisis in the world today,\u201d said\u00a0<a class=\"wsw__a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.insidevoa.com\/a\/amanda-bennett-voa-director\/3280016.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">VOA Director Amanda Bennett<\/a>. \u201cProviding them with a reliable and authoritative source of news, as well as practical information that will improve their lives, is what the Voice of America does well in various hotspots around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prior to launching the Rohingya language program, a\u00a0<a class=\"wsw__a\" href=\"https:\/\/learningenglish.voanews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">VOA Learning English<\/a>\u00a0team travelled to the Rohingya refugee camps in Cox\u2019s Bazar, Bangladesh, in March of this year at the invitation of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. The VOA instructors offered six days of intensive training on teaching techniques and methods for 100 selected English teachers. The teachers, in turn, will use the acquired knowledge to train another 5,000 of their colleagues in the camps.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidevoa.com\/a\/voa-launches-rohingya-language-program\/5019593.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read at Inside VOA.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributors, Eric McFadden and Bruce who share the following item from NPR: The Voice of America has begun a daily radio show in Rohingya, the language spoken by Muslim refugees who have been forced to flee Myanmar. The program is called &#8220;Lifeline.&#8221; Click here to read\/listen at NPR. Also, Inside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,3],"tags":[20,7923,10,7924,7922,182],"class_list":["post-38759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-news","tag-npr","tag-rohingya","tag-voa","tag-voa-lifeline","tag-voa-rohingya","tag-voice-of-america"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-a59","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":36912,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/voa-learning-english-team-trains-rohingya-refugees-in-bangladesh\/","url_meta":{"origin":38759,"position":0},"title":"&#8220;VOA Learning English Team Trains Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh&#8221;","author":"Thomas","date":"April 14, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: VOA News via Michael Bird) VOA\u2019s\u00a0Learning English\u00a0program is bringing its decades\u2019 long expertise of teaching foreign audiences the English language to refugee camps in Bangladesh. 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