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Mundo Sem Segredos - World Without Secrets
Mozambique


Mundo Sem Segredos production team in Cabo Delgado try out their
new recording equipment / Niamh Hanafin - 2005

Contact details

Mr Salvatore Fiorito
Pproject Coordinator
Avenida da Liberdade 1213
Caixa Postal 141
Quelimane
Zambézia
Moçambique
Telephone/fax: +258-4-216353
E-mail: msp-quel@teledata.mz
Website: www.mediasupport.org

Location

Moçambique

Silvia and Sitoi, co-presenters of Mundo Sem Segredos in Zambezia, make last minute changes to their script before going on air for the first time / Niamh Hanafin - 2005

Background

“Mundo Sem Segredos” or “World Without Secrets”, a children’s HIV/AIDS radio programme, went on the air in Zambezia province, Mozambique for the first time on Sunday, 26 of September, 2004.
Media Support Partnership, a British NGO, is working in partnership with the Ministry of Education and Rádio Moçambique to implement a children’s HIV/AIDS radio project in the northern provinces of Tete, Zambézia and Cabo Delgado. The aim of the project, which is funded by DANIDA, is encourage open dialogue between young people and other members of the community about HIV/AIDS and to reduce the mystery and stigma surrounding the disease. Groups of children from the ages of 12 to 15 are being trained to produce and present radio programmes for listeners their own age which address HIV/AIDS in an open and non-judgemental way.
The aim is to make HIV/AIDS relevant for young people and not just an abstract concept which they can’t relate to their own lives. Because the programmes are made by children, they will reach young listeners in a way that they can understand and accept. As well as providing the basic facts, the programmes will also aim to promote a greater respect for people living with HIV/AIDS and an understanding of the other issues which children will face as they go through adolescence.
In July 2004, Media Support held a workshop in Zambezia province for youth production teams from all three provinces to design ideas and concepts for the programmes. One of the outputs of this workshop was the programme’s name, “Mundo Sem Segredos”, which expresses well the need for a programme that doesn’t censor information about HIV/AIDS. According to Niamh Hanafin, Media Support project coordinator, the children have shown great enthusiasm and creativity in developing the programmes. “The children have already spent lots of their free time working in the radio station and attending training. They are very proud that they can do something to help their peers, especially to protect them from HIV.”

Milda, aged 15, reporter with Mundo Sem Segredos, interviews a young listener
in Pemba about how people with HIV should be treated / Niamh Hanafin - 2005

Target audience & Involvement of children

The radio magazines will be broadcast weekly through Rádio Moçambique provincial stations in a mix of Portuguese and local languages. They will contain an entertaining mix of interviews, drama, live reports, testimonials, music and much more. Children will be encouraged to participate through letters, phone calls and competitions. A weekly counselling session, with a trained counsellor, will provide advice and solutions to listeners’ questions or problems.
The radio programmes will also complement and promote a HIV/AIDS resource pack which the Ministry of Education will distribute to every primary school in the three provinces. The pack, called the Kit Basico, is intended to encourage teachers to integrate HIV/AIDS information into their classes and extra-curricular activities.

Funders

DANIDA

Programme schedule

The programme schedules for the three provinces are as follows:

• Zambezia - Sundays, 13:30
• Tete - Sundays, 18:30
• Cabo Delgado - Sundays, 11:10

Edrice, aged 14, reporter with Mundo Sem Segredos, records a vox pop
in Quelimane / Niamh Hanafin - 2005

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