Internews, an international media assistance organisation with the funding from the UK and Switzerland, had launched the Pakistan Emergency Information Project to rebuild media capacities in quake-hit Azad Kashmir and NWFP.
Relief Web, a web portal administered by the UN Office for the Co-ordination of Human Affairs, reported on Friday that the work primarily includes developing the emergency broadcast sector, building radio production facilities, providing small equipment grants to emergency FM stations, training journalists in humanitarian reporting and the production and distribution of a daily one-hour news and information programme on humanitarian issues, called `Jazba-e-Tameer' (`The Spirit of Recovery'). The programme was produced by a group of ten journalism students.
The volunteers travelled daily across the earthquake areas to report on relief efforts, including feedback from affected populations, the international and local humanitarian community and government authorities.
Internews conducted a snapshot survey two weeks after the earthquake in Battagram, Balakot and Mansehra in NWFP, and Muzaffarabad, Bagh and Rawalakot in Azad Kashmir.
According to the survey, before the earthquake about 81 percent of households had a radio, and 52 percent had television sets.
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