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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'">Community
Radio for Development: Voices for the voiceless</SPAN></STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'">14 Community Radio
Stations are going to On Air first time<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'">in Bangladesh</SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'"><FONT
size=4>Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC), since its
inception, has been advocating with the government and with other organizations
for the promotion of Community Radio to address critical social issues at
community level, such as poverty and social exclusion, empowerment of
marginalized rural groups and catalyze democratic process in decision making and
ongoing development efforts.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'"><o:p><FONT
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'"><FONT size=4>Ministry
of Information, Government of People’s Republic of Bangladesh has approved
2 more Community Radio Initiators for installation and operation of community
radio in Bangladesh on 20 May, 2010. <B>Now total 14 Community Radio Stations
are going to On Air first time in Bangladesh.<o:p></o:p></B></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'">The main
objective of community radio is to provide livelihood related information to the
rural communities in an understandable way. Agriculture, education, health,
disaster, women and child issues, market price, services, etc. will be cover in
the community radio for the community people.</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT><BR><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"
size=4>Bazlu<BR>_____________________<BR>AHM. Bazlur Rahman-S21BR<BR>Chief
Executive Officer<BR>Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication
(BNNRC)<BR>&<BR><STRONG>Head – Community Radio
Academy<BR> <BR></STRONG>House: 13/1, Road:2, Shaymoli, Dhaka-1207 <BR>Post
Box: 5095, Dhaka 1205 Bangladesh<BR> <BR>Phone: 88-02-9130750,
88-02-9138501<BR>01711881647 Fax: 88-02-9138501-105<BR> <BR>E-mail:
</FONT><A href="mailto:ceo@bnnrc.net"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"
size=4>ceo@bnnrc.net</FONT></A><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=4>, </FONT><A
href="mailto:bnnrc@bd.drik.net"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"
size=4>bnnrc@bd.drik.net</FONT></A><BR><A href="http://www.bnnrc.net"><FONT
face="Comic Sans MS" size=4>www.bnnrc.net</FONT></A><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>