By Bob Aston
The Laikipia Rural Voices (LRV) has just surpassed 200 blog posts this year. This is an achievement that LRV is tremendously proud of. It has certainly been a productive and busy year. It is worth noting that in 2013 a total of 91 articles were posted on the blog. This indicates that this year the various Citizen Reporters who have been writing articles for LRV have not only written twice as many articles as next year but they have set a mark that will be hard to break in 2015.
Blogging on agriculture and particularly on successes and issues faced by youths engaged in agriculture, highlighting the role and importance of family farming as well as issues pertaining to climate change, environment conservation and NRM enabled ALIN through LRV to emerge the best in East Africa region in the Institution category of Youth in Agriculture Blog Competition (YoBloco Awards).
The Laikipia Rural Voices (LRV) has just surpassed 200 blog posts this year. This is an achievement that LRV is tremendously proud of. It has certainly been a productive and busy year. It is worth noting that in 2013 a total of 91 articles were posted on the blog. This indicates that this year the various Citizen Reporters who have been writing articles for LRV have not only written twice as many articles as next year but they have set a mark that will be hard to break in 2015.
LRV has also seen an
increase in number of visitors in the blog. The blog has already registered
more than 58,000 visitors.
The LRV was started by Arid Lands Information Network (ALIN) in 2011. This was an initiative aimed at promoting citizen
journalism by training young people in basic Journalism skills such as
photojournalism, news writing, creative writing, feature writing, Interviewing,
blogging and media laws and ethics.
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| ALIN representative receiving Yobloco Award |
Blogging on agriculture and particularly on successes and issues faced by youths engaged in agriculture, highlighting the role and importance of family farming as well as issues pertaining to climate change, environment conservation and NRM enabled ALIN through LRV to emerge the best in East Africa region in the Institution category of Youth in Agriculture Blog Competition (YoBloco Awards).
The aim of the competition was to put
into limelight successes and issues faced by youths engaged in agriculture, in
urban and rural areas; and to encourage the production of information and the
use of new information and communication technologies by young farmers groups
and organizations interested in the youth in agriculture question.
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| Yobloco Award winners |
“LRV brings information to the people
even without really understanding the fact you get the information faster
whether you are far from Laikipia or you are close. The agricultural
information shared by LRV usually helps farmers to know the best type of crops
to plant and as well as on agronomical practices,” said Elvis Nderitu, one of
the avid LRV readers.
LRV looks forward to an even
greater community involvement in its activities in 2015. LRV would love for you
to join them. Jump on in, tell your story and see how it connects with someone
on the other side of the world.
Please encourage your friends and
colleagues to also start reading the blog. Sharing the different blog posts
through the social media will go a long way in increasing LRVs audience.
This being the last blog post in 2014,
LRV would like to wish
all their readers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. May this year’s
Christmas end the present year on a cheerful note and make way for a fresh and
bright new year. God bless you.
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