Community media keep an eye in Haiti’s reconstruction efforts

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By María Teresa Aveggio, Programme Manager, WACC

Nine months after the devastating earthquake in Haiti, three long standing WACC partners in Haiti – SAKS, Groupe Medialternatif/AlterPresse and REFRAKA – have joined forces and have launched a reconstruction watchdog the Haiti Grassroots Watch (http://www.haitigrassrootswatch.org). Immediately after the January earthquake WACC launched an appeal that was generously supported by the United Church of Canada and others, to raise funds for community media in Haiti. SAKS, Groupe Medialternatif/AlterPress and REFRAKA all benefitted from this appeal (see:
http://www.waccglobal.org/component/content/article/2348:haiti-communicating-six-months-on.html )

Haiti Grassroots Watch is a collaboration of two well-known Haitian grassroots media organizations, Groupe Medialternatif/Alterpresse and the Society for the Animation of Social Communication (SAKS), along with two networks – the network of women community radio broadcasters (REFRAKA) and the Association of Haitian Community Media (AMEKA), which brings together community radio stations located across the country.

Haiti Grassroots Watch will produce text, audio and video content in Haitian Creole, French, English and Spanish for audiences in Haiti, in the Haitian diaspora (in Creole and English), as well as in North America, Latin America and throughout the world. The effort will focus on "watchdogging" the aid and reconstruction from the point of view of Haiti's majority, at the same time as it also provides historical and political context, examines structural causes and challenges, and seeks out Haitian academics, technicians and specialists who will add their voices to the voices of the Haitian people and their associations and organizations.

Write to Haiti Grassroots Watch at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Source: http://www.ayitikaleje.org/haiti-grassroots-watch-engli/

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