Friday, March 4, 2011

Thevision/thevisiononline.net, Buduburam, Ghana, West Africa

The Vision is a Community-based ‘Voluntary Refugee Journalists’ Media Group’. It is a bi-monthly, eight-page newspaper, and its corresponding online version,TheVisionOnline.net committed to reporting on human rights and socio-economic issues.

The Paper is published by Communication for Awareness and Development (CAD), a Buduburam community-based organization (CBO) in collaboration with the Liberian Journalists Union, Ghana (LIJU).

The Vision is currently being published for the past years without a sponsorship, and its staff are looking forward to International or local sponsorship to enhance its production aimed at achieving its objectives toward meeting the critical needs of its readership.

The Vision exists to bridge the information and communication gap between the refugees, the host communities and the government of Ghana; providing the refugee community and the Ghanaian public with diverse news coverage on environmental, educational and public health issues.

The newspaper sensitizes on affirmative action and social developmental concerns. The paper additionally creates awareness in the areas of advocacy, and the promotion of human rights issues, which are intrinsically very important for refugees and many Ghanaians.

The Vision is a specialized paper dedicated to reporting exclusive issues on HIV/AIDS, Human Rights, Health and sanitation, and the Environment.

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