Ariguanabo Radio. Photo: Dayamí Tabares
On February 13, 1946, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) declared World Radio Day, with the aim of uniting wills, from the perspective of the information generators to the listeners. The call for this 2017 aims to raise awareness and promote the validity of the messages, by defining for the celebration the theme: ‘’The radio is you’’.
To feel the radio, to recognize through it the passage of life, the connection, the possibility of interacting with a more lively and real participation, capable of revealing the concerns of men and women of the city and of the most remote communities, reaching vulnerable people; is the purpose. The radio breaks down the barriers created by differences of creed, culture, sex, occupation and extends the embrace.
The challenge is and will become the voice of every citizen to find in this medium the necessary bridge that unites, sisters and breaks barriers, walls and distances. Technological development can never be seen as a brake, it is, on the contrary, a stimulus for reconciliation between men and women around the world to join millions of people who do not yet have access to the radio. It is urgent to give voice to the most oppressed.
Resizing the potential of the environment requires greater dynamism, from a more attractive position to flow the exchange and the commitment to offer possible solutions to problems facing humanity today, such as human rights, gender equality, dialogue and peace, encouragement to share the dialogue, multiplying the voice and making it the voice of all.
