UK - Abel Moreno from Aculco Radio reports on a truly international and exciting initiative

Listen to the show made by the Radioactive partners at Aculco Radio (London - UK): 







The article:

We are glad to announce that Aculco Radio has recently become part of a new international project called Radioactive. Its aim is to encourage the motivation and integration of disadvantaged young people from around the world. It seeks to skill them up with digital technologies, particularly web radio.

Radioactive is an initiative of Everything is Possible, a non-for-profit organization based in the English city of Leeds. The first encounter happened  three weeks ago, in an event attended by representatives of all but one of the six countries involved: Act Global (Indonesia), TDM 2000 (Italy), Blue Hill (Sweden), Atatürk University (Turkey) and us, representing UK. One Media Boracay from the Philippines were the only partners missing.

It was a very intense week that helped to establish real contact with the members and set the basis for future exchanges of people and ideas within the remits of Radioactive. We had time for numerous activities, including a visit to BCB Radio (Bradford Community Broadcasting), a local station in Bradford, Yorkshire where we were received with a great dose of creative energy and hospitality. The result of this meeting was a radio workshop in which members of Radioactive debated about the difficult socio-economic situation and the future of young people worldwide. We had the chance of airing everyone’s points of views about and you can listen to that first program in the player below:

The last days of the meeting took place in London, where we were happy to show our international partners our radio and television studios in Brixton. We recorded a chat and an interview, conducted by Juan Toledo, with some of our colleagues so we could get to know our future partners and their associations a bit better. The result was a program which was broadcasted a few days ago.

The next meeting is scheduled for the weekend of 1st and 2nd of March in an event called Young Pride. The idea is to develop several workshops: graffiti painting, dramatic interpretation as a way of creating an international CV. Aculco will be there again, hoping to get closer to the young people  Everything is Possible is working with and hope to stimulate so, as far as possible,  they can start providing a better reality for themselves.

If you are aware of any group of young people with any particular need or disadvantage and who might be interested in developing a radio program, either in Spanish or English, please tell us by writing to us at info@aculcoradio.com.

Abel Moreno Peña,

Aculco Radio Intern