| Welcome to Radio Apac 92.9 FM
Who we are
Radio Apac is a community radio station that
broadcasts educational & developmental programmes and entertainment to the community.
Radio Apac was incorporated in July 1999 by members of the Apac community and launched on
October 16, 1999 by Hon. Jovino Akaki Ayumu, Minister of State for Tourism, Wildlife and
Antiquities, and member of parliament for Maruzi county, Apac District. Radio Apac is
powered by a 300Kw transmitter in Apac and is relayed using a 100Kw transmitter in Lira.
Radio Apac 92.9FM/106.5 FM is a limited company. Our head office and Studios are located
at Media House, Biashara Street, Apac. Our branch offices are in Lira, White House Hotel,
and Kampala, Dharas Building, Plot 21 Nkrumah Road. This profile shows the current
operations of Radio Apac and its future plans. This profile has been written by Jimmy
Okello, a founder and board member of Radio Apac. The purpose of this profile is to
illustrate the operation of the radio station. The key person at Radio Apac is Mrs Joy
Ebong, P O Box 4005 Kampala. Tel 077 455593,
jebong@infocom.co.ug.
Our Mission
Our vision at Radio Apac is to operate a
comprehensive Media Centre to serve the communities of Apac. This will include Radio
broadcast services, Telephone and fax service for public access, Film video recording and
editing, Audio recording and editing and an Internet access for the community. Providing
secretarial and desktop publishing services for the communities are and will continue to
be provided by the Media centre to the community.
Through quality service delivery approach and community participation, Radio Apac shall
broadcast programs aimed at improving the livelihood of the community. Radio Apac designs,
develops and markets media services for sale on the basis of messages being clearly
delivered to the community of Apac in the way the community will best understand them.
This will be in the language they understand, during appropriate programs for the
community and specially targeted times and audience to meet the needs of the customers
groups via our channel in Apac and Lira. We intend to develop new services by means of
technological improvements.
Radio Apac is proud to call itself a community radio station because of its strong
outreach policy to include the communities in participation in production of the radio
programs. This same approach is extended to all our customers and stakeholders so that
they feel that the radio station is an extension of their businesses.
Our objectives are
- To support the community and stimulate rural development by facilitating access to
information.
- To stimulate and create capacity building from the community by providing access to
local, national and international information services and resources.
- To import skills in information searching including the use of modern information
technologies.
- To generate, record, broadcast and store local information and knowledge from resources
available to the community.
- To conduct relevant training for building entrepreneurial skills of the women and youth
in the community.
The town of Apac
Apac town is the main town of Apac district, which
lies in the North of Uganda above Lake Kyoga. Apac town is 450 Kms away from Kampala, the
capital city of Uganda. The terrain in Apac is flat with undulating hills, a few tress and
shrubbery.
Traditionally Apac is a producer of cereal crops such as maize, simsim and millet. Cotton
is grown as a cash crop. In addition cattle keeping was practised as a way of storing
wealth and as a source of income. Today there are small to medium sized development
activities such as construction and grain milling. Many NGO's are now operating in Apac.
Over the last years Apac like its neighbours in Northern Uganda suffered from civil strife
that has stagnated the development of Apac relative to rest of the country. Fortunately
since 1998 Apac has enjoyed a good measure of peace. Apac needs to rebuild its communities
and to do this education of its communities is crucial.
Radio as a communication technology has the enormous potential for community education in
Apac and Northern Uganda because: there is no need to set up telecommunication
infrastructure and power cabling in order to access users, considering the very limited
infrastructure available in Apac.Many members of the community already posses radio
receivers and are thus readily able to access the radio service.
Remarks by Mr. Oyugi Onon
Quitinus, Director Marketing, Radio Apac
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