NEWS / RADIO: Seven youths from Liberia learn how to record, edit, write and produce radio programmes at UNICEF radio workshop

In the run-up to the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child – a landmark international agreement on the basic human rights of all children – UNICEF is featuring a series of stories about progress made and challenges that remain. Here is one of those stories.

MONROVIA, Liberia, 30 October 2009 – "The last time I got malaria, I had to leave school because I couldn't walk properly. I couldn't eat," says Veldis Malkor, age 13. "I missed school for about a week."

Yet Veldis says that he doesn't like to sleep under a mosquito net.

"It's too hot," he admits.

However, after several days of interviewing some of Liberia's experts on malaria for a UNICEF-sponsored week-long radio production workshop, Veldis will think twice about using one.

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