By Michelle Lanchart | Chief of Staff
We're so grateful for your support. Here are a few updates about our programs:
COVID-19 and Food Security
Our partnership with Catholic Relief Services on COVID-19 prevention and sustainable farming practices led to increased knowledge and behavior changes in these two issues. We're working on a second season for this Spring.
Adapting Let's Talk! to the COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has made the critical public dialogues that are an integral part of the campaign inaccessible while gender-based violence and teen pregnancy have increased during this time. In November, to foster discussions about these issues at home, we launched a six-episode webinar series, “Say It Louder.”
The series ignited conversations around issues related to early and unintended pregnancy from multiple vantage points as moderators, speakers, and youth come together from different countries and contexts across the region, representing a wide range of experiences and realities.
We’ve also been able to produce a drama around the same issues that will be broadcast at the regional level.
The Say It Loud radio mini drama and call-in shows are designed to inform and entertain the public about EUP issues, foster informed conversations, provide social support and resources to listeners, and encourage key behavior changes to reduce EUP, especially in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. The drama touches on themes like stigma and discrimination, access to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services, economic stressors that lead to child marriage, and domestic and gender-based violence.
The Mozambican Context
8.5 million Mozambican children lost access to learning opportunities because of COVID shutdowns. Girls are particularly affected by the closure of schools given their greater vulnerability to physical and sexual abuse.
In November, PCI Media launched a pilot entertainment-education program in Mozambique, in partnership with Better Education through Teacher Training and Empowerment for Results (BETTER) and the Mozambican government.
As part of the program, PCI Media developed a TV show and is now co-producing a radio show for children 5-8 years old. Through stories and songs, children learn about COVID prevention and develop their literacy and oral expression skills. Once schools reopen, the program will use this outlet to encourage children to return to school.
Your support allows us to continue to increase access to knowledge and resources on these issues. Thank you.
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