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• The hills are alive with the sound of radio

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  6 August 2016 || The Times of India (Bangalore) ".. It is this story of collaboration between the city NGO (People's Power Collective) and residents of Rudraprayag that will be the focus of a documentary 'A Radio of One's Own', to be screened at Numa on Saturday. From a fervent idea in the head of station manager Manvendra Singh Negi, the radio has gone on to become the voice of the valley and an important medium of communication during landslides, floods and raging forest fires in the region."

• Community radio stations to empower people in five disaster prone districts in Uttarakhand

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  27 May 2016 || The Times of India

  "In order to reach out to local community within minimum time span during and after a disaster, a Bangalore based organization "People Power Collective", with the help of disaster management department, is going to set up five community radio stations in remote areas of disaster prone districts in Uttarakhand.
  
  Post 2013 Kedarnath natural disaster, People Power Collective, which is a charitable public trust, had established a community radio station—Mandakini ki Awaaz—which began its operations from Sena Gadsari village in Rudraprayag district in year 2014.

  ..Significantly, the organization has shortlisted Pithoragarh, Bageshwar, Chamoli, Uttarkashi and Almora districts, all hilly and disaster prone districts, for setting up community radio stations. Once the MOU is signed, People Power Collective is going to carry out a survey in five districts for identifying the villages where finally radio stations would come up in collaboration with local NGO's.
  
  Saritha Thomas, founder of People Power Collective, told TOI, "Community radio station Mandakini Ki Awaz, which is operational at Rudraprayag, played a very important role in sharing timely information during forest fires that raged the state of Uttarakhad earlier this month. We would be tying up with five community organizations in disaster affected districts for setting up radio stations. My organization will be involved in capacity building of local people for ensuring sustainable operation of radio stations."
  

  
  

• Mandakini ki Aawaz: for the people, by the people

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  4 May 2016 || Newslaundry.com

  ".. radio station was launched in September, 2014, by Manvendra Negi's NGO Mandakini ki Awaz Kalyan Sewa Samiti, with the support of Bangalore-based organisation, People's Power Collective (PPC)."
  

  
  

• Uttarakhand fire largely a Man-made Disaster

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  3 May 2016 || Times of India (Delhi)

  "As fires rage on across Uttarakhand, Uma Negi's clear voice rings across 328 villages in the Mandakini river valley warning against fires, suggesting dos and don'ts and taking calls from concerned villagers offering reports on the affected areas. Mandakini ki Aawaz, a 20-month old community radio station set up in partnership with Bengaluru-based People's Power Collective, in Rudraprayag district, has helped touch lives in a difficult terrain at a time when power lines are melting and mobile phone co verage patchy. Uma says the fires are not new but their re solve to stop them is. “We star ted issuing warnings a month back. Now, as soon as someo ne spots a fire, they call us and we alert the community. This has helped us contain the daz mage,“ Uma says, transfor med from a quiet housewife to CR station's head of content.

  Like the school whose roof Like the school whose roof caught fire a week ago. “Children, women, men, everyone gathered to save the school,“ she said. The school is precious because that is where the village children study. The community has in the last fortnight doused fires in villages of Kanakchouri, Kandara and others, saving people and livestock in the nick of time. “During times of disaster, mobile coverage comes down, power lines melt, generators give away. Community radio is the only way to get through to people,“ Manvendra Negi, the station's head, said. And for many villages, the medium is the only way their voice can be heard by the administration."

  
  

  
  

  
  

• Radio Saritha echoes in Uttarakhand hills

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  8 Mar 2016 || Deccan Chronicle
  

  "Ms. Saritha Thomas, the brain behind the concept, has changed the way people in isolated villages learn and entertain through community radio. Founder of the People's Power Collective, which has given wings to Mandakini Ki Awaz, a Himalayan community radio, she gave up a plush job in London, to answer her new calling in the mountains."
  

  
  

• Community Radio Mandakini Ki Aawaz goes on air in Uttarakhand

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  24 September 2014 | India Today
  

  "It is the first community radio station in Rudraprayag. About 200 villages will be in the station's coverage area.

  The station is a joint venture of an NGO called Mandakini Ki Awaaz Kalyan Sewa Samiti and Bangalore-based People's Power Collective, a public trust."

  
  

  
  

• Rudraprayag 'thrilled' with new radio station covering everything from nutrition to natural disasters

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  23 September 2014 | Daily Mail UK

  "It (Mandakini Ki Aawaz) is the first community radio station in Rudraprayag. About 200 villages will be in the station’s coverage area.

  The station is a joint venture by an NGO called Mandakini Ki Awaaz Kalyan Sewa Samiti and Bangalore-based People’s Power Collective, a public trust.

  A man listens to the community radio and shares information with the local children

  The station will offer programmes in Garhwali and Hindi languages between 7-9am, 12.30-1.30pm and 4.30–6.30pm every day, with additional live broadcasts as part of special Sunday programming.

  The radio station’s communication and programme coordinator Shweta Radhakrishnan said: 'Rudraprayag is prone to disasters like floods, earthquake, landslides and forest fire. Our focus will be on making the people aware about handling different types of disasters, besides making the community radio an effective tool for addressing public grievances by connecting them with the concerned departments.'"

  
  

  
  

• A radio to save lives in Rudraprayag

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  22 September 2014 | The Hindu

  "The station, in collaboration with the Bangalore-based People’s Power Collective, will broadcast programmes in the local Garhwali dialect, which has been categorised as “unsafe” in the Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger of UNESCO.

  The Collective, which works to bring community radio to rural and isolated communities in the country, joined hands with Mandakini Ki Awaz Kalyan Sewa Samiti, a local body, in 2010. In September 2013, the two started training local people to manage the radio station.

  “The workforce of the community radio is the residents of 80 villages in the district … ,” Saritha Thomas, founder of the Collective, says.

  A community radio became a pressing need in the region after the floods destroyed all means of communication — roads, cellphone towers and so on.“Community radio has a big role to play in grassroots-level disaster preparedness, risk reduction, relief and rescue operations, rehabilitation and the responsible reconstruction of an affected region and its people,” Ms. Thomas said.

  The community radio, she says, will address locally relevant issues such as education, nutrition, drinking water, sanitation, women’s and public health, livelihoods, migration and community well-being as well as enable the community to celebrate and preserve their language, traditions, folk music and culture.

  It is the seventh community radio in the State."

  
  

  
  

• Upcoming Community Radio Station in Rudraprayag, Uttarakhand with the help of People's Power Collective

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  20 September 2014 | Hindustan Times

  "It took nine-odd months to train local girls and women into radio operations, says Saritha Thomas, who is the founder of People's Power Collective and a moving spirit behind making the radio a reality."
  

• CJ Show: Lending voice to flood victims through community radio

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  20 October 2013| CNN IBN

  As a part of Citizen Journalist programme of CNN IBN News Channel, Saritha Thomas, Founder and Trustee of People's Power Collective shares the issues and challenges faced during the floods of June 2013 hit the region of Uttarakhand.

  Watch her report on how People's Power Collective's training helped build a Community Radio Station in Uttarakhand, but more importantly how it helped them prepare for such disastrous situations.