Lighting up once again!

These shores have not seen a ship in the past few years. The Radio Lighthouse beacon switched off after the tsunami recovery broadcasts in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. But something kept throbbing inside the lighthouse all this while.

The mission of making communities safer and resilient, and so through their own voices and action, is far from accomplished. The lighthouse feels the urge to light the skies up once again. It knows there are ships out there that it needs to work with for making this world a safer place.

Yes, we are working to crank Radio Lighthouse back to life again! It will be back in a new avatar in the new year. It will work on a renewed mission – of creating and making available community radio content that can serve the community radios coming up across the country and the various community based initiatives that can gain from knowledge content on community based development and risk reduction.

Shashi Tharoor recently delivered a talk on TED, where he convincingly spoke that the strongest country today is not the one with the biggest army, but the one that tells the best story. This is true for the social sector too. Organisations need to tell better stories; communities need to do so too. The frontiers of the development and risk reduction mission will be conquered with knowledge and story telling. And community radio will have a huge role to play in this. Radio Lighthouses promises itself to be a useful foot soldier in this war against poverty, underdevelopment and disasters.

Do help us light this horizon up!