Cariqual Radio Station with Yanahir

Cariqual is an area that includes about 60,000 people.
The radio station started as loud speakers driving around in a car, spreading information.
When it began, and was still illegal, it broad casted out of an apartment.
Chavez recognized the role of the independent radio stations in the coup, because the state station was taken off the air. When that happened the people from this station went to help the state station and get them back on the air.
Now we have programs directed to families, for people who are in different educational missions,
This program speaks to the needs of women. It is called Millenia de la Mujer, it is three years old.
This program is directed to women and mothers who work hard in home and in the workplace.
Yanahir, “One of my focuses of my program is to bring dignity to pregnant women. In my country the birthing process is very dehumanized. There is not very much education about what the process is like.”
In the radio program, “we are using a lot of gender in language to sensitize women to gender.”
During the day, Yanahir works in the barrios, working with pregnant women, educating them about breast milk.
The law of nutrition and lactation is being discussed in ‘street parliaments’.