RADIO RUMPHY, Malawi's Last Community Station

Co-organized

Jim Ellinger and 3 others are organizing this fundraiser to benefit Austin Airwaves Incorporated.

Tax deductible

HELP AUSTIN AIRWAVES put the last licensed community radio station on the air in the impoverished Rumphy District of MALAWI. Among the most under-developed nations in Africa, the Malawian Government licensed community radio stations for each district. All have successfully gone on the air, except Rumphy, which lacks almost all resources.

AA has agreed to sponsor RADIO RUMPHY and deliver a complete FM radio station by May, 2020.

WE HAVE DONE THIS BEFORE. AA enjoys a very positive rep world
wide, having put local, community-based radio stations on the air (or
put BACK on the air, or provided critical gear and training), including:

Haiti (6 weeks after quake)
Houston & New Orleans (post-Katrina)
Wimberley, TX (post deadly flood)
Borneo, Tunisia, Ghana, Panama, Mozambique, and most recently

RADIO TABOO in northern CAMEROON.
https://www.radiotaboo.com/

We have submitted grants to various large foundations, but cannot be certain we will be funded. There is a great deal of competition.

That's why need your help now.

>> $4,800 is a very reachable amount. <<

100% of your TAX DEDUCTIBLE donation will go to the purchase and delivery of studio and transmitter gear. The gear will be shipped directly to the Malawian capital city of Lilongwe in May, 2020. All AA board members, engineers, writers/researchers, work without pay and more often than not pay their own costs.

THIS IS WHAT WE DO. We put community radio stations on the air in
the US and around the world, allowing local communities to
SPEAK TO THEMSELVES AND FOR THEMSELVES.

RADIO RUMPHY is licensed to ROSCHER YOUTH DEVELOPMENT
will provide programming in English and local dialects addressing
critical issues facing WOMEN AND GIRLS .

https://www.facebook.com/RadioRumphy/
http://roscheryouthdevelopment.org/

Bamboo Radio Tower, Radio Bario, central Borneo

Six weeks after the Haiti Earthquake, Austin Airwaves put RZPF-FM
"Radio Voice of the Peasants" back on the air in Fondwa, under very
adverse conditions.

Radio Bario broadcasts solely in Kilabit, one of the most endangered
languages in the world.

Radio Builsa serves a largely non-literate region of northern Ghana made up of poor farmers.

Austin Airwaves Community Radio Projects,
Stations and Conferences in Mother Africa
(as of September, 2017)

Dakar, Senegal January 1995
AMARC6 Waves of Freedom
World Association of Community Broadcasters
(AMARC-Africa)

Chimoio, Mozambique Radio Gesom February, 2004
“The Two Mosquitoes” Radio training
(ACDI-VOCA)

Rabat, Morocco May, 2005
World Association of Community Broadcasters
(AMARC-Africa, MENA)

Nairobi, Kenya, January, 2007
World Association of Community Broadcasters
(AMARC-Africa)

Tamale & Accra, Ghana RITE-FM December, 2009
Radio training (ACDI-VOCA)

World Social Forums 2013 & 2015
Tunis, Tunisia
Training, equipment insertion

Wa, Ghana W93.5FM March, 2016
Radio training (ACDI-VOCA)

N’Ditim, Cameroon
Radio Taboo September, 2017
tech build out, station Sign On

NEXT UP! RADIO RUMPHY!
YOU can make it happen!!