'voices converge in all': Jaime Perdomo.
Source: Ministry of Culture of Colombia.
September 22, 2009
Ocaina Stereo community station is the winner of Best Performance in a radio address the processes promoted by Radio Citizen. Based in Puerto Caicedo (Putumayo), for eleven years has mobilized their community.
When the 86 thousand hectares in the municipality of Puerto Caicedo (Putumayo) is filled with clouds and lightning rages in the Amazon, the station's transmitting antenna Stereo Ocaina suffer the blow of violent lightning discharges and affected.
More than once, after the storms, the 15 members of the station have reviewed the status of equipment, just to check its permanent damage. But that's when they feel stronger community support. The inhabitants of 69 villages and 13 districts of Puerto Caicedo organized bazaars to support Ocaina Stereo, and bring them chicken, yucca, pineapple and vegetables for the group of broadcasters get the resources and continue to sound.
Thus, in the middle of difficulty has increased over the past eleven years the station in 2009 winning the grand prize for the best performance of a station front the processes promoted by Radio Citizen. Indeed, from its birth was marked by violence and difficulty.
The manager of the idea was Father Alcides Jimenez in 1998. This pastoral leader, owner of a captivating personality, conceived at the time a community radio station that would unite the 20 thousand inhabitants of the municipality engaged in the conflict, to propose solutions other than violence, and also as a way to deal with groups armed lashed the region. But death claimed its audacity. Three men entered the Eucharist that the office and shot him at 6:30 pm
All bowed their heads and agreed to the imposition of silence. But the weight of the ideas of Father encouraged them to move just a month after his death.
Perdomo Jaime Sánchez, director and legal representative of Ocaina Stereo, met with the other promoters of the idea and decided to promote the station, which at that time already had a license but had no equipment. The baptized with the name of Ocaina, in memory of the indigenous community that lived between the Caquetá and Putumayo, which was destroyed during the fierce rubber boom, and got its own resources and equipment provided and updated it had signed agreements Father Alcides . The project started with the idea of \u200b\u200bdoing pastoral work, and they faced the microphone they did with the shock of getting into something new. But more than faith and the memory of Father brought forward: the desire to help the community.
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Through direct and alternative programs such as rural, which airs Monday through Friday from 5 to 7 pm and motivates the farmer through the magazine with topics of interest, or promotion of artists, every Sunday disclosed work of artists Putumayo farmers, managed to penetrate through the collective Radial Bocana. "We say so because Bocana is the place where all the rivers, and we created this space to come together collectively to indigenous peoples, children, adults, seniors, youth and Afro-Colombians in one voice, "Perdue said Sanchez, who received the award from Minister of Culture Paula Marcela Moreno.
Luz Dary Garcia, the mayor of Puerto Caicedo, affirms and celebrates their work: "Ocaina Stereo has built a possibility to feel for those who do not have a direct voice." Jaime Conrado Juajibioy, regional coordinator of Citizen Radio in Putumayo, on the other hand explains the reasons for the success of the station: "They legitimize the community. Travel the river, know the people, support the community feel and the voice of minorities, and citizenship building space, "he notes. Jaime Perdomo And remember, with pride: "The ideas Father Alcides not dead. Here at The Bocana, all voices come together, as he proposed it. "
In a discussion of school at a national award
September 22, 2009
A story about cell phone use in a population of Putumayo was awarded in the category of Best Radio piece on Radio National Citizen Award, given by the Ministry of Culture this September 22.
The idea of \u200b\u200b'the cell', the program received honorable mention for Best radio piece produced by other sectors, was born of urgent calls receiving school students of Puerto Caicedo in the midst of classes and conflicting demands of teachers, who asked them to turn off their phones, although they themselves would answer their phones during school hours.
Hence was born the debate and this program called 'The Cell', created by the group 'Stick to the microphone: youth in tune', consisting of four college women José Antonio Galán, in the municipality of Puerto Caicedo (Putumayo).
For Danny Fernando Guerrero, who for more than four years he has worked as a reporter, producer and technical empirical Ocaina Stereo station, forming part of these projects "is to become the voice of those without how to say what they feel. We also have the virtue of being people who are dedicated to the radio in an empirical way: we do it because it comes from within. "
The south was the big winner of the 2009 National Citizen Radio
September 22, 2009
departments of Putumayo, Cauca, Nariño and Huila won the most awards in all categories. Chocó, Norte de Santander and also won awards. The awards opened the Citizen Radio National Meeting, which will continue through September 24 in Bogotá.
Bogotá, September 2009. With the presence of the Minister of Culture Paula Marcela Moreno Zapata, delegates Ministry of Communications, the Agency for International Development (USAID) and over 150 community radio representatives, indigenous and public interest in all of Colombia, were given incentives today Radios Citizens National Award: Room for democracy, highlighting the radio productions by groups participating in the Citizens Radio bar program of the Ministry of Culture.
Winners in various categories are: Best band
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• Winner: Radio Station Freedom, the municipality of Totoro (Cauca)
Second place: local collective production, the town of Ipiales (Nariño)
Third place: local collective production, the city of Columbus (Putumayo)
• Best piece, set pieces or radio program produced by other sectors
Winner: Collective Vereda Galán, municipality of Villa del Rosario ( Norte de Santander)
Second Place: Youth Collective Riosucio, the municipality of Riosucio (Chocó)
Honorable Mention: Class 'La Radiola Juvenil', municipality of Neiva (Huila)
Honors: Youth Collective Sardinata, the Sardinata municipality (Norte de Santander)
Honors: Youth Collective, the municipality of Puerto Caicedo (Putumayo)
• Improved performance of a station in front of the processes promoted by Radio Citizen
Winner: Play Stereo Ocaina, municipality of Puerto Caicedo (Putumayo)
The Radio National Citizen Award was held in Gabriel García Márquez Cultural Centre in Bogota, with the participation of over 120 agents, producers and directors of community radio stations in Antioquia, Bolívar, Boyacá, Caldas, Cauca, Caquetá, Cesar, Choco, Cordoba, Cundinamarca, Guajira, Guaviare, Huila , Tolima, Nariño, Norte de Santander, Santander, Sucre, Putumayo, Quindio and Valle del Cauca.
The event was open to the National Citizen Radio, which runs through September 24 in Bogotá, which allows the recognition of the various local and regional groups to get their forms of production, vocals and culture in general.
During the meeting will hear how stripes are developed and Citizen Radio Program in each department and municipality in the country.
Likewise, the meeting will be held academic workshops and talks, attended by renowned exponents of the issue of community media and literary and Winocour Rosalia (Mexico), Hector Rincon, Hector Fabio Cardona, Arturo Guerrero, Laura and Ivan Dario Restrepo Chaín, among others.
Today, Radio Citizen: Room for democracy has the link of 165 stations, the same number of municipalities, where they have created and consolidated the radial stripes citizen, an experience that is unprecedented in Colombia that every day has become a leader in community outreach in Latin America. Radios
Citizen: Room for Democracy is a program coordinated by the Department of Communications, Ministry of Culture and seeks to strengthen democracy, civic participation and peaceful coexistence through diversity cultural, through the creation and consolidation of strips of analysis and opinion in the community and public radio stations in the country.
The program has the support of mayors, governors, regional operators and cooperating agencies such as the United States Agency for International Development (USAID-Colombia), through its Municipal Alternative Development Areas (ADAM) and MSI Colombia Foundation, Foundation Programme.
