The United States Embassy Helps Women to Promote Peace in Casamance

In collaboration with the NGO World Education, the U.S. Embassy in Dakar financed the installation of a community radio through its "Self Help" program for the women in the village Sindian (region of Ziguinchor). This community radio will serve as a way for people to transcend their ethnic differences and to change their behavior.

With the involvement of the village women, the community radio has helped to promote tolerance and assist in the quest for a sustainable and lasting peace in the region.  In fact, the women have a great influence on their communities because they are the mothers and sisters.

With the financial support of the U.S. government, World Education is also working with other rural communities within Ziguinchor and Kolda to create additional community radio stations to transmit messages of peace in national languages.