Radio and drama give children in India a voice
The school radio program gave disadvantaged children a voice by teaching them how to use radio to raise awareness of issues that mattered to them. Twenty children participated in a two-day workshop where they developed plays and songs on universal birth registration for school radio programs.
Elsewhere in the Davangere district, children used drama to promote birth registration. The play, which illustrated a typical village family, was created by the children themselves and was used to ask parents and the wider community: “When we can understand the importance of a birth certificate, why can’t you?”
Birth registration is compulsory under Indian law, but research shows that more than one-third, or approximately 10,000,000, births go unregistered each year.
