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February 12, 1999
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New Adventist Radio Stations in Caribbean and Africa

Bracknell, Berkshire, United Kingdom, 27.01.1999  
[AWR/APD]  The Seventh-day Adventist Church's radio 
outreach organisation Adventist World Radio (AWR) 
announced this week that several new stations will be 
broadcasting soon.

"The Caribbean islands of Curacao and Bonaire will 
soon be able to tune into the Voice of Hope on a local 
station," says Greg Scott, AWR-Pan America region 
director.  The new FM station, to be known locally as 
"Alpha 92" will be located at 92 Megahertz and will 
have a power of 1 kilowatt to reach both islands which 
have a population of 160,000.  

Station Manager Arnulfo Angila says the station hopes 
to be on the air in February or March with programming 
in the local language of  Papiamento, and other area 
languages such as English, Dutch and Spanish.  The 
station plans to air programs from the AWR Spanish 
Voice of Hope network.

Two new studios in Africa will soon become AWR program 
partners to add several more languages to the world-
wide program schedule, according to AWR's region 
director for Africa, Samuel Misiani.  "I have received 
reports from both Lagos and Addis Ababa that the 
studios have been constructed and are ready to install 
equipment so they can begin program production," says 
Misiani. 

"AWR has been co-operating with local entities to 
establish these two important studios that will be 
able to talk to millions of people," said Misiani "and 
now we will begin a rigorous training program to help 
them prepare for their new roles as the Voice of Hope 
in their languages."

"The studio's location in Nigeria at the Adventist 
Seminary of West Africa in Lagos State will enable us 
to take advantage of the seminary's resources and will 
give many young people the opportunity to train in 
communication," said Misiani.  "We will also be 
depending on many young people in the city of Addis to 
participate in the new studio there," he added. 
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