Farm Radio Internationalm has offered a grant of 12 thousand Canadian Dollars to 10 Nigerian radio stations each as emergency funds during the lockdown and to fight COVID -19.
The Projects’ Co-ordinator in Nigeria Hajiya Jamila Gezawa stated this in a special interview with the Nigerian Tracker.
Jamila Gezawa said the aim of granting the funds to the 10 Nigerian Radio stations was to ease their operations during Lock-down and to fight COVID 19.
She said the benefitting Radio stations were credited with 1200 Canadian dollars to fight Covid-19
She said the funds were also meant to purchase personal protective equipment and to fuel their vehicles when going for operations.
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According to Jamila Gezawa, the Radio stations that benefitted are Rahma Radio in Kano, Globe FM in Bauchi, Progress FM Gombe, Gotel Radio, and Voice of Nigeria among others.
She further said the funds were also provided by RFI to make sure that the stations have a smooth operation in time of COVid 19
It also includes the purchase of face-mask noting that only Rahma Radio benefitted from the grant in Kano state Nigeria.
The funds have been credited to all the 10 Radio stations.
Radio Farm International is also sensitizing Nigerian Farmers to ensure good yield on Cash crops including Tomato.
Farm Radio is an international non-profit organization focused on using radio to help African farming communities help themselves.
The seed for Farm Radio International was planted nearly 40 years ago in rural Zambia when a man named George Atkins had a simple, but a really good idea.
It was 1975 and George, a Canadian farm radio broadcaster, was out in the Zambian countryside with his African colleagues as part of a workshop he was running.
As they traveled around interviewing farmers, George asked them about the radio shows they had created recently.
