There is a shortage of work for young people from all different backgrounds in Nepal, both skilled and unskilled. The Government of Nepal has documented that hundreds of young people leave Nepal every single day, going to India, the gulf countries, the US, and many other places in search of work and opportunities and to realize their dreams. But often, these young people are ill-prepared for work and end up working in poor conditions without basic job skills to improve their lives and livelihoods.
Equal Access is guiding its listeners through the frustrations of unemployment and youth through the difficult first years of employment. Equal Access is teaching its listeners the skills they need to gain fulfilling and empowering work both in Nepal and abroad.
Equal Access began broadcasting livelihoods content in response to the overwhelming number of letters and cell phone texts that Saathi Sanga Manka Kura, Equal Access Nepal's popular youth lifeskills show, was receiving. The type of information that was being asked for was enough to warrant an entirely new show, Kamka Kura, designed as a 30-minute weekly distance-learning course, that would teach listeners to learn to identify, prepare for, participate in and benefit from locally available entrepreneurial and educational opportunities. The major message is to prepare for and seize available opportunities.
The program format is an informal chat between friends interspersed with short dramas, interviews, success stories, features, reports, and letter-reading. Kamka Kura has been broadcast since May 2007 through Radio Nepal and 36 FM stations. It is now streamed online. 2 million regular listeners tune in to Kamka Kura regularly.
For more information on Kamka Kura and to download the program, please visit http://www.equalaccess.org.np/kamka-kura.
