RADIO CERENJA

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About Radio Cerenja Roma Radio "Cherenja" is a voice of the Roma people from Stip. This Radio is the first one in Macedonia, and maybe within the Balkans, which spreads through the ether the voice of one civilization, one nation that has been held back through years, a nation which is scattered throughout the world. Roma Radio "Cherenja" was established on 8 November 1994 in Stip. This radio, with very small financial support, provides great educative and all-inclusive contributions for civilization to its listeners every day. . It has become a daily need for the Roma people in Stip and the vicinity. Like other private radio and TV stations, Radio "Cherenja" depends of the marketing profit. However, Radio "Cherenja" directly suffers in this regard for various reasons. One of them is a general prejudice about Roma people among other nations and financial infirmity of the Roma people to support this radio with commercials, because 90% of the Roma people are dependent on social support. Nevertheless, to accomplish our planned program we need to pay our staff that will engage in the realization of our ambitious goals. Roma Radio "Cherenja" is planning the following programs for this year: A Program for children We have a morning, an afternoon and evening program. We plan this program to help in the education of the Roma children, to respond to the need of Roma children for common communication through free expression of their thoughts, as well as to create possibilities for the development of Roma children talents. The morning program "In the world of fairytales" would be aired daily as a 30-minute program. The afternoon program "Let's get the information from the children", is an open one-and-a-half-hour program that would be broadcasted twice a week. The evening program "Good night" is a 30-minute program, broadcasted every night. The broadcasting of the children's program would be both in Macedonian and Roma language. A young program The young program would be divided into debate, contact and entertaining programs. Their purpose is to create conditions through the radio, for this most sensitive segment of the Roma population, to debate openly and freely about everyday-problems that they deal with. The debates would be organized on specific themes. The debate programs would be aired twice a week, one hour each. The contact program called "To meet each other by telephone" is also planned to be broadcasted twice a week, one hour each. The aim of this program is to get young people to meet and to know each other, to feel close and to communicate. The entertaining program for young people entitled "Turli radio" would be aired one hour once a week. The aim of this program is to create the setting for kind competition between young Roma people through fun, games and quiz. The entire program for young people would be in Roma language. A program for women The aim of this program is all-inclusive emancipation of the Roma woman, to actualize the problems that she is dealing with, and to offer opportunities for the capabilities of woman to freely express her thoughts. The broadcasting would be one hour every week. The woman's program would be broadcasted in Roma language. An educational program This program would include several themes from various topics such as health, justice, economy, ecology, politics, etc. There would be broadcasting programs every working day except Monday, because every Monday is reserved for a program for studying Roma language. The aim of this Monday-program is to cherish the Roma language because its basic form has been seriously endangered by the influence of other languages. The broadcasting would be in Macedonian and Roma language, except the programs for studying the Roma language, which would be broadcasted only in Roma language. Programs about social-communal problems of Roma people The aim of these programs is to get to the heart of common problems that the Roma population foremost deals with. The broadcasting of these programs would last one hour and 45 minutes once a week in Roma, Macedonian and Turkish language. Culture programs The aim of these programs is the cultural education of the Roma people; actually this radio program would introduce them to the spheres of literature, painting, music, film, theatre, etc. The broadcasting would be one hour once a week, in Macedonian language. Sports program This program would include sports events from our town Stip and vicinity. The broadcasting would be one hour per week in Roma language. Daily-news program This program would include news and events from politics, economy, social and public problems as well as daily events in culture and sports. We are planning to broadcast daily news for 30 minutes per day. The news brief would last 5 minutes each twice a day. The news broadcast would be in Roma language. About Radio Cerenja Radio details Name: Cerenja (Cherenja) General manager: Enise Demirova Total staff: 10, of which one is legally employed and the rest are all working on a voluntary basis. Among them are 4 journalists in all broadcasted languages and 2 technicians. Potential audience: 45,000 (the population of Stip), including 5000 Roma, plus the population of some surrounding villages. Contact Us Established:08.11.1994 Address: ul. "Radanski pat" br. 202, Stip Telephone no.: +389 32 384 248; +389 32 392 917 Fax no.: +389 32 390 795 e-mail: edemir@soros.org.mk