C4C: Journalists at school

It is nowadays very obvious that media constitute a major power and player in the social realm. The churches do not escape from this reality. This is one of the reasons why on 11^th July 2017, a workshop kicked off in Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo under the theme “Communication for Change” (C4C) This workshop which brings together many journalists from CBCA communication organs and some others from French speaking UEM member churches in Africa will cover a period of 5 effective training days with Mr Guy Ketchatcham Ngamy, General Manager of The White Dove Company based in Yaoundé-Cameroon as main facilitator. One of the focus of this workshop is to mutualise the efforts of the church communication organs in order to foster more communion and equip actors to be effective and professional communicators in order to bring change. Taking into consideration the context of Eastern Congo where it is taking place, one of the main topics will be “Communicating in times of emergencies”. This workshop, entirely organised by the CBCA with support from UEM is coordinated by Mrs Hulda Vagheni, the head of the communication services in the CBCA church. The opening session was chaired by the president and legal representative of the hosting church in the person of Rev. Dr. Kakule Molo, who on the occasion hailed the readiness of the UEM to get closer to its member churches and called on the journalists attending to make use of this opportunity to build more and better skills in order to really become agents of change in a constantly changing world. It is expected that this training will boost the quality of the broadcast on the radios and articles in magazines as well as improve the management of these media in our churches. Among the topics to be covered, we can mention “global understanding of communication for change and community development”, “The role and the management of media institutions”, “strategies of institutional communication”, “role and use of information technologies”, “networking for effective communication” among others. By David Wafo