Where We Work
ShareThisShare this page with a friend or add it to Del.icio.us, DIGG, Reddit, and more.
Eastern Caribbean
On October 1, 2007, PMC absorbed Rare Radio and its professional staff. Formerly a part of the Rare Center for Tropical Conservation, Rare Radio has used the Sabido methodology to promote family planning and environmental conservation in the Eastern Caribbean and the Western Pacific.
In the 1990s, PMC President Bill Ryerson and Honorary Chair David Poindexter provided Rare with the technical training in the Sabido methodology at its inception, and PMC trainer Tom Kazungu provided technical support for Rare’s program design.
In the Caribbean, to date, Rare has aired programs in the Caribbean islands of Saint Lucia, Antigua, Dominica, Grenada, and St. Vincent. The acquisition will provide PMC with greater worldwide coverage, including fully established programming, trained personnel, and writers.
A Caribbean program produced by Rare, Coconut Bay, is now being broadcast in the nine island nations of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS). These are Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, British Virgin Islands (BVI), Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
The projects Rare has carried out have been highly successful in changing attitudes and behavior with regard to reproductive health and environmental conservation.
PMC is presently working closely with the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States Secretariat [OECS] and many other health and environment focused organizations in the Caribbean region in an effort to support a new drama series. This new series will complement the wonderful work being done by organizations like the OECS, Caribbean Broadcast Media Partnership and the various HIV Commissions throughout the Caribbean.
PMC is also excited to welcome Alleyne Regis as our new Regional Director for the Caribbean. Previously Alleyne served as the Technical Director of Rare Radio. Alleyne brings fourteen years of experience with Rare Radio, where he has worked to create very successful radio serial dramas in the Caribbean and the Western Pacific. Alleyne has coordinated the production, broadcast and evaluation of more than 800 episodes of three radio soap operas in nine island nations in the Caribbean and Western Pacific. He also produced a how-to-manual, Reaching Out Through Radio: A Guide to Producing Soap Operas with a Family Planning Message (1998). He is co-author of Effects of an Entertainment-Education Radio Soap Opera on Family Planning And HIV Prevention in St. Lucia, which appeared in International Family Planning Perspectives in December 2000.
