March 8, 2021 is International Women’s Day! It is a day to celebrate women and their contributions to the world as well as acknowledge the challenges they still face because of their gender. This year’s theme is Choose to Challenge. The International Women’s Day website encourages us to “ choose to challenge and call out...
Every once in a while, we ask some of our staff to share a thought or two with you. With no trips to go on, no new people to meet and not having the chance to be in the office together as a staff, there have not been too many opportunities for our staff to share with you. But today, Nicki Coles , our communications manager, shares a few thoughts...
The ministry of TWR Bangladesh is seeing explosive growth in the number of radio home groups across the country. At the end of 2018, after nearly a year of activity, there were 330 radio home groups. By the end of May 2019, we received a report stating that there were now 806 radio home groups. As of December 2020, there are now 1687 active...
For a short time starting in mid-October, the country of Cuba began to open up again from the COVID-19 lockdown. Public transportation and the postal service resumed, allowing the team in Cuba to begin receiving listener letters again. Unfortunately, in recent days the situation has worsened, and many restrictions are back in place. But the team...
After construction delays due to COVID-19, we are happy to report that the Kakuma station is broadcasting! The station extends TWR programs to the people of Kakuma Refugee Camp (mostly refugees from South Sudan, Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Somalia, among others). Kakuma is home to 250,000 refugees and asylum seekers from...
We are excited to share that radio home groups are expanding! The team in Sri Lanka has adopted the program and has launched 320 groups to date, with a total of 1,400 listeners!
In preparation for the launch of radio home groups, TWR designed a special radio home group media player with the following features: 
