Felix Adero: Recent Episodes
Felix Adero
This is all about informing people about the various challenges faced in various communities due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the safety measures to be observed during this time.
THE TEARS OF GRADUATES
PRODUCER: FELIX ADERO
VOICING: 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
VOICING: FELIX 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
VOICING: FELIX 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
VOICING: 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.
This is a welcoming episode to a space of Change where different issues affecting our society will be aired and discussed on to drive positive change.
This is a feature story of older and vulnerable women sharing facemasks during this COVID-19 pandemic period to avoid being arrested. The women are pleading for help from well-wishers and their local leaders. FACEMASKS ARE NOT TO BE SHARED UNDER ANY SUCCUMSTANCES