{"id":5218,"date":"2012-12-23T14:25:08","date_gmt":"2012-12-23T18:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=5218"},"modified":"2012-12-23T14:25:08","modified_gmt":"2012-12-23T18:25:08","slug":"ears-to-our-world-giving-the-gift-of-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/ears-to-our-world-giving-the-gift-of-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Ears To Our World: Giving the gift of radio"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Doulek’s Association of Disabled People, Cameroon (Photo: ETOW)<\/p><\/div>\n

This holiday season, you might consider giving a charitable donation to Ears To Our World<\/a>.\u00a0A one time donation of $40 US<\/a> can help a community through the power of shortwave radio.<\/p>\n

Many readers may know that\u00a0I’m quite involved with ETOW<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We recently published this article showing the impact of one self-powered shortwave radio in rural Cameroon<\/a>. It’s pretty amazing and this mission would not be possible without the support of those who understand the importance and impact of shortwave radio; people like you. Thank you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This holiday season, you might consider giving a charitable donation to Ears To Our World.\u00a0A one time donation of $40 US can help a community through the power of shortwave radio. Many readers may know that\u00a0I’m quite involved with ETOW. We recently published this article showing the impact of one self-powered shortwave radio in rural […]<\/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":[3,43],"tags":[178,218,883],"class_list":["post-5218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-ears-to-our-world","tag-etow","tag-shortwave-radio-charity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1ma","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1632,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/how-to-celebrate-national-radio-day\/","url_meta":{"origin":5218,"position":0},"title":"How to celebrate National Radio Day","author":"Thomas","date":"August 20, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"August 20th is National Radio Day, a day for celebrating the invention of radio and this amazing 110+ year old communications medium, still so vital to information access throughout our world. 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