Alternative Youth Radio AYR

Alternative Youth Radio (AYR) is Liberia’s first community youth radio station, based in Zorzor, Lofa County, that employs creativity and technology to transform youths and communities. James Papy Kwabo, Jr., a 2019 US State Department Mandela Washington Fellow, launched it in June 2016. AYR has helped over thirty (30) community adolescents in Zorzor, Lofa County (rural Liberia) throughout the years through pieces of training in news collection and reporting, program production and presentations, media advocacy, community volunteerism, and other important areas of Mass Communications.

AYR broadcasts a wide range of programming, including current events and news, human interest programs, public service programs, youth and children’s rights advocacy (especially for girls’ rights), and so on. All of these projects aim to combat and eliminate all forms of violence against young women, including child marriage and abuse, child labor, and human trafficking.