THE TEARS OF GRADUATES

PRODUCER: FELIX ADERO

The number of unemployed youths in Kenya has been on a steady rise despite the fact that different administrations have always promised to address this. A huge number of graduates have remained unemployed for quite a long time leading a majority of them into crime, depression and much more.

How can this be addressed, what can the youths do in order to secure employment opportunities?  

                                        REDUCED FISH CATCH AND SPECIES IN LAKE VICTORIA AS A RESULT OF PLASTIC POLLUTION.

PRODUCER: FELIX OTIENO ADERO

Duraton: 8 minutes, 50 seconds

Background Song: Kisumu 100, by Suzanna Owiyo

Insert 1: Patson Odhiambo – Fisherman Dunga beach Kisumu County

Insert 2: Francisca Awuor – Fish Monger Dunga beach Kisumu county.

Insert 3: Kater Elizabeth – Fish Monger Dunga beach Kisumu Conty

Insert 4: Dr. Collins Ongore – Scientist Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute (KMFRI).

The Lake Victoria for ages has been the main source of income for very many families living around the

lake and beyond. It has been a source of beauty and also acted as a tourist attraction site for years. This

has for the recent past diminished as a result of human activities that directly pollutes the lake.

Lake Victoria is currently chocking with huge chunks of plastic wastes that are directly and indirectly

disposed into the lake oblivious of its effects as they do not get to rot and they are toxic. These, the

fishermen and fishmongers say have greatly affected their businesses as they find it almost impossible

to catch other fish species which were previously available.

Fishermen around the lake explains numerous instances that they have encountered plastic wastes

floating deep inside the lake and how fish can no longer breed freely in their previous breeding spots

and a majority that have suffocated to death as a result of plastic bags.

Scientist Collins Ongore explains on the dangers that face the lake, fish and community as a result these

wastes that are also posing threat to human health.

He further explains on the need to protect the lake and manage toxic wastes that are directed into the

lake.

This feature not only educates but also calls for action by the community in waste management and

environment conservation that will also see to it that the lake is looked after.

                                                   THE EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON LAKE VICTORIA AND ITS IMPACT TO THE COMMUNITY.

PRODUCER: FELIX OTIENO ADERO

Duraton: 10 minutes, 49 seconds

Background Song: NamLolwe

Vox Pop: Anne Awino and Stacy Gloria (Fish mongers at Dunga beach Kisumu County.)

Insert 1: Dennis Otieno – Fisherman Ndhuru beach Homa Bay County

Insert 2: John Aloka – Fisherman Ndhuru beach Homabay county.

Insert 3: Cleophas Ochieng’ – Fish cage owner Ogal beach Kisumu Conty

Insert 4: Mary Joseph – Resident Ndhuru beach Homa Bay County

Insert 5: Edward Oremo – Homa Bay County Beach Management Unit Chair Man

Insert 6: Dr. Collins Ongore – Scientist Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute (KMFRI).

Climate change effects have been drastically felt in every part of the world and the Lake Victoria too has

not been exempted from this. This feature story addresses the changes that have been experienced in

the lake in terms of clarity of the water, taste, safety for use and mass death of fish in the lake as a result

of climatic change.

Residents along the Ndhuru beach in Homa Bay County for instance have experienced color change in

the waters of Lake Victoria over the recent past that has also come along with mass death of fish and a

disturbing smell. In different beaches in Kisumu county mass deaths of fish freely ranging in the lake

and fish in various cadges has also been experienced.

A number of families that solely depend on fishing activities from the lake are now facing difficulties in

putting food on the table and catering for their various needs. These features not only highlights their

pleas and cries, but also seek answers from a marine scientist on the possible causes of this and also on

ways that the society can mitigate these changes and adapt to them.

By the end of this feature the society is also educated on the importance of conserving and preserving

the lake which is highly depended on by a number of families for water, food, employment and much

more.

                                                                   THE RISE OF KENYAN WOMEN INTO LEADERSHIP POSITIONS.

PRODUCER: FELIX ADERO

Duraton: 10 minutes, 5 seconds

Background Song: Mama Africa

Vox Pop: Alice Amani and Charles Ochieng’

Insert 1: Lillian Ngala – Managing HR DTB Bank/leadership and governance expert.

Insert 2: Beatrice Wasonga – Radio Programs Manager/gender equity mobilizer.

This is a feature story that focuses on the rise of women into different leadership positions such as

political, government administration, company heads, church leadership and much more. The feature

aims at advocating and rooting for gender equity as we encourage women to come out in large numbers

to seek for leadership positions in their various spaces and also encouraging the men to support and

provide an enabling environment for the growth of women.

In this feature that starts with a song Mama Africa by Suzanna Owiyo as an introduction piece that

encourages respect to the African women, also relays the views and opinions of different individuals on

women leadership and how they performed.

I interviewed an leadership and governance expert Lillian Ngala who largely talks on the various

obstacles that women face in their leadership journey, how to overcome them, what it takes to make a

leader, the data of women leaders in Kenya compared to other East African countries and much more.

My other source is Beatrice Wasonga a radio programs manager and also a grassroots mobiliser and

sensitizer on gender equity and equality. She comes in with vast knowledge and experience on the

cultural barrios that women till face on their way up and how to end and overcome them.

By the end of it all the feature achieves its goal of educating, sensitizing, encouraging and urging not

only women to rise up and claim leadership but also men and the general society to support this noble

course.