KNOW US

Putting the potential of the media at the service of actors in the field and communities!

Since its creation in 2004, the ONG RAES has used the media and new technologies to strengthen the sectors of health, education and citizenship in Africa. Prevention and information campaign, publishing projects, training, design of radio broadcasts, creation of educational materials, community mobilizations... The ONG RAES designs with its partners tools at the service of actors in the field and communities, to that they can inform themselves, create spaces for dialogue, mobilize and act on their future, individually and collectively.

OUR VISION

Communities that inform themselves, mobilize and act on their future, individually and collectively.

Africa faces socio-political, economic and ecological challenges on which the existence and well-being of millions of individuals depend. Among these issues, some are particularly crucial, such as access to health, access to education, social justice, the exercise of citizenship, democratic governance and environmental protection. To face them, the NGO RAES is convinced that local actors and communities are best placed to find and implement solutions adapted to their problems and improve their daily lives as well as the future of their children. This principle of autonomy requires trained, informed and mobilized citizens as well as an environment favorable to dialogue. These are essential conditions for emancipation and leading to harmonious social change.

OUR MISSION

Promote social change and an environment conducive to informed individual and collective decision-making, based on free, appropriate and complete information.

Difficulties in accessing information or in appropriating information that comes under injunction or upsets social representations, lack of concrete and practical arguments to resist social pressures or to be able to adapt behavior to the realities of everyday life : so many reasons that justify the need to support communities and equip them to inform themselves and make their choice.

NGO RAES IN FIGURES

84

PROJECTS

Projects implemented between 2004 & 2021 in collaboration with communities and partners.

17

COUNTRY

Countries where RAES has intervened including 11 in West Africa, 4 in Central Africa and 2 in North Africa.

10766

AUDIOVISUAL PRODUCTIONS

Thousands of educational content: 806 video productions: 3 TV series and 2 web series of education through entertainment, hundreds of interviews, animation videos, 243 audio content including 4 radio serials, podcasts and radio shows, more than 10,500 non-media content: articles, posters, press kit, etc.

HISTORICAL

2004 - 2005

Creation of the RAES and conduct of the first research in Senegal

▪️ Birth of the RAES association; ▪️ Organization of national reflection days for the promotion of health; ▪️ Experimentation and evaluation of innovative technologies and methods for distance learning, participatory communication approaches, connection of schools or health centers to the internet, mobile telephony

2004 - 2005

Creation of the RAES and conduct of the first research in Senegal

2007 - 2010

Deployment of the first projects in Senegal and in the sub-region

▪️ The creation and animation of the 1st health information and training portal: keewu.com; ▪️ The production of two radio series of education through entertainment, in partnership with the University of California, Los Angeles, and Population Media Center; ▪️ The design of a training method called Sunukaddu, which means "our word", in Wolof.

2007 - 2010

Deployment of the first projects in Senegal and in the sub-region

2011 - 2016

Specialization in education and integration of Alliance Rights and Health

▪️ Design and deployment of the C'est la vie project with the first health entertainment education series in French-speaking West Africa; ▪️ Technical partner of Alliance Droits et Santé and training of members in social communication; ▪️Launch of the first digital campaigns on DSSR.

2011 - 2016

Specialization in education and integration of Alliance Rights and Health

2017 - 2021

Geographical and thematic opening

▪️ Deployment of actions in Central Africa; ▪️ Production of content on new themes: democratic governance and citizen participation, drug use, nutrition; ▪️ Development of a mobile application on Sexual and Reproductive Health.

2017 - 2021