Welcome to Friends of Radio Akicha

Friends of Radio Akicha is a group of friends which have come together with a common purpose: to help create and run a radio station in the zone of Lodwar in Kenya. The aim of this radio station is strengthen the education, culture, knowledge and promote health education to the inhabitants of the region, which is situated in the north east of Kenya, near Lake Turkana.

Radio Akicha was launched at the beginning of 2009 and was driven by the Missionary Comunity of Saint Paul the Apostle)and by the inhabitants of Lodwar, who are the real driving force for this project.

With Radio Akicha in gear, the 60,000 inhabitants of Lodwar and the nomads that live in the region will have a method of communication available, which will allow them to spread their culture, traditions and ways of life. Moreover, one of Radio Akicha’s main objectives is to improve education, drive agriculture in the region, promote health awareness, AIDS prevention and improve the integral development of the Turkana women and their families, and enlighten them on skills for life.

Friends of Radio Akicha is following in the footsteps of the Radio Akicha project which Esther Buendía marked in the summer of 2008 while traveling in Kenya. She had the vision and spirit to bring the people her biggest passion of all, the radio!

Radio Akicha means “Light” in the Turkana language and it was created with the idea of lighting up Lodwar, its inhabitants and the future of the whole region.

To achieve the goals of this project, we’ve started various initiatives to raise funds. Please take a moment to have a look at our collection of hand made jewellery which is for sale to help raise money for Radio Akicha.