Outreach No. 96 - Children in Especially Difficult Circumstances - Part 1: Working and Street Children (New York University - TVE - UNEP - WWF, 68 p.): Radio spots: Life is harder in the city

Outreach No. 96 - Children in Especially Difficult Circumstances - Part 1: Working and Street Children (New York University - TVE - UNEP - WWF, 68 p.)

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		Article: Street children
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		Educational resources: A comic about street children
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		Practical guidelines: Practical advice for AIDS educators working with street children
		Article: Helping street children
		Article: A self-help project for street children in India
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		Article: Empowering children
		Educational resources: African jigsaw
		Article: The children's movement in Brazil
		Suggestions for action: How city mayors can help
		Radio spots: Life is harder in the city
		Video resource: The Karate Kids project
		Publications: Innocenti Studies: the urban child in difficult circumstances
		Film, video and radio resources: Children in difficult circumstances: street and working children
		Organisations: The Consortium for street children
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Radio spots: Life is harder in the city

SOURCE

Adapted from Developing Countries Farm Radio Network's Package 27 script 9 and Package 17 item 11. If reproduced, please give credit to original source. For further information, contact: Developing Countries Farm Radio Network, 40 Dundas Street West, Box 12, Suite 227B, Toronto, Ontario CANADA M5G 2C2

SUGGESTIONS FOR USE

teachers: For village or classroom lessons, flip charts, plays, stories, songs, etc.

radio broadcasters, journalists, community workers, NGOS: To be adapted for local radio broadcast or as a source of information for magazine and newspaper articles, leaflets, fact sheets, posters, extension visits. DCFRN participants who prepared the original radio spots find that they are effective when repeated - in official and national languages - on a regular basis.

Here are two radio spots aimed at rural people who are thinking of moving to the city. The purpose of these radio spots is to encourage people to think of the gains and losses of such a move before deciding to leave their village or farm.

No. 1
CONTROL:	Theme music.
VOICE 1:	What's life in the city like? There's no security for anyone. The cost of living is high, and housing is extremely expensive. The amount of pollution is a big worry, and, if you do not have the right education or skills for life in the city, it's hard to find a job. Would you want to leave the tranquility of the countryside to be in the middle of all that?
VOICE 2:	Don't imagine the city is going to solve all your problems. Please think about what you and your family are likely to encounter in the city.
No. 2
CONTROL:	Theme music.
VOICE 1:	Often the city dazzles us with its cars, buildings, big stores, with its people and its style. But there are things in the countryside that you don't get in the city.
VOICE 2:	In the countryside, the extended family has always provided many necessary social services, like caring for the sick, the old and the very young. When people move away from their families to the city, they often lose this vital support: they can become frustrated and lonely.
VOICE 1:	We country dwellers might not have some of the things that the city has to offer, but we do have cooperation between one farmer and another, something which is rare in the city.

Another useful script from DCFRN:

DCFRN's package 23, script 7 “A better life In the country” is a story about Juan, a young farmer, and his family who decide to leave their village and move to the city to start a new and better life. But life in the city is not what they had imagined. The story is presented in the form of letters. The first series of letters is written before Juan and his family move to the city, and these letters are between Juan and his Uncle Silvio who moved to the city many years ago. The second series of letters is written once Juan arrives in the city, and these letters are between Juan and his brother Pedro who still lives in the village.