Woman Rights Program in the Community 9 December 2008 Radio Lumbini organized four Women Rights interaction program in Ekla, Masina, Pharsitakar and Soiya Kerwani VDCs of Rupandehi district recently with the help of local listener clubs. The objective of the program was to inform about women's legal rights in simple language. Two Local facilitators Hema Neupane and Devi Sapkota facilitated the program.
Radio Lumbini affiliated Soiya listeners club (a club where most of its members are Mushahar people) organized reproductive health program in Kerwani V.D.C. with the help of the sub-health post office. The health post provided two facilitators and conducted the program in an interactive way. Approximately 60 people participated in the program.
Lumbini Community Multimedia Centre (CMC) has recently organized a one-day orientation programme for blind and visually-impaired students of Shri Shanti Model Secondary School in Manigram, a village in Western Nepal. Shri Shanti local government school has about 850 students twenty-eight of which are either blind or visually impaired
Radio Lumbini conducted an audience survey with the support of MS Nepal, Kathmandu and published on Friday the 5th of April, shows that a large majority of potential listeners still remain untouched by radio, as the media does not sufficiently represent all language groups. Also the uneducated and labor segments of the population are to a large extent outside the reach of the media.
The Lumbini Community Multimedia Center (CMC) is located in Manigram, a market area in the Anandavan Village Development Committee (VDC), the local government administrative body. The CMC was established in April 2004 by the technical support of UNESCO in Radio Lumbini.
ASIARIGHTS Journal Issue: 8, 2007 August This is the presentation on the conference of "New media and Cicil Society" held in Bhaktapur, Nepal. The work done by the researchers of the CMC in Radio Lumbini and Buddhanagar Telecenter, Lumbini Nepal.
Radio Lumbini, the first radio station run by Lumbini Information and Communication Cooperative Limited out side Kathmandu Valley in Nepal and the first radio station run by cooperative in South Asia has build its own building.
