Grand Rapids Sister Cities International

The Ga District Committee partnered with the Community Media Center (CMC) here in Grand Rapids and Culture in the Neighborhood, a nonprofit organization in Ghana, to help the people of Ga District create and sustain their own community radio station called Radio Omanye.  The radio station supports literacy, learning and training of activists on general health, with a focus on the distribution of information about HIV/AIDS and the prevention of malaria.  Although the CMC is mandated to serve the community as a whole with information and communication services that were previously unavailable to the public, there are also plans to conduct special ICT training for local youth, women and the physically challenged in order to help promote sustainable livelihoods.  This is a major accomplishment and a significant development for the local community.  Radio Omanye is the only local media and the first accessible communication and information facility in a poor and otherwise disconnected and marginalised area.