My Community - Latin America

Seed Grant Winners 2005-2006

Guatemala

• K’iche Youth Association (Asociación Juventud K’iche’)
  Radio show: “Youth Voices” (Voces de la Juventud) featuring the drama “Heart of the Sky and Heart of the Earth” Ukux Kaj Ukux Ulew (Corazón del cielo y Corazón de la tierra ); 30 minutes.

• Tan Ux’il Association (Asociación Tan Ux´il)
  Radio show: "Sexo Tipos Juvenil:, featuring the drama “The Roulette: where emotions melt” (La Ruleta, donde las emociones se funden); 30 minutes

• World Neighbors (Vecinos Mundiales)
  Radio drama “Communicating to Live” (Comunicándonos para vivir); 30 minutes

• Alliance of Rural Women for Life, Land, and Dignity (Alianza de Mujeres Rurales por la Vida, Tierra y Dignidad (AMR)
  Radio show “Hope: voices, thoughts, & feelings of rural women” (Esperanza: voces, pensamientos, sentimientos de mujeres del campo ), featuring the drama, “The Destiny of Hope” (El Destino de la Esperanza); 30 minutes

México

• Center for the Adolescents of San Miguel de Allende (Centro para los adolescentes de San Miguel de Allende, Asociación Civil) (CASA)
  Radio drama: “And God made me a Woman” (Y Dios Me Hizo Mujer)

• Association Ecos de Manantlán
  Radio drama: "Adolescent Mothers" (Madres Adolescentes)

• Omega Experimental AC
  Radio show: “Nocturnal Stories” (Historias Nocturnas), featuring the drama, “A World Upside down” (Un Mundo Invertido); 30 minutos

• Synergy for Integral and Sustainable Development (Sinergia para el Desarrollo Integral Sustentable AC)
  Youth radio show and drama: “Between Lips: Voices to Live” (Entre Labios, Voces para Vivir); 30 minutes
• Honduran Association for Family Planning (Asociación  Hondureña de Planificación de Familia) (ASHONPLAFA)
  Radio show: “Double Meaning: A program about Sex” featuring the drama “What’s Up with your life?” (Que Ondas con tu Vida)

Dominican Republic/Haiti

• Socio-Cultural Movement for Haitian Workers (Movimiento Socio Cultural para los Trabajadores Haitianos) (MOSCTHA)
  Radio show: “Dialogues on the Island ” (Diálogos en la Isla) featuring the drama “Batey Soley”; 30 minutes

Perú

• Free Hands Association (Asociación Manos Libres)
  Radio program: “Changing Lives” (Cambiando Vidas), featuring the drama “Margarita’s Awakening” (El Despertar de Margarita); 30 minutes

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Arvind Singhal and Everett M. Rogers (2002). "A Theoretical Agenda for Entertainment-Education", Communication Theory, 12(2): 117-135.