Four Buildings, One Transformation
In Mvengue, in the South, the community fully transformed an old administrative building made available for the radio: a strikingly large, well-kept building that now adds to the town’s beauty, just by the sub-divisional office. In Bafia, in the Centre, it is the old town hall that gave up its walls. In Belel, in Adamawa, a villa that once housed workers on the Chad-Cameroon pipeline was handed over to the community by the Council. In Bamendou, in the West, an old warehouse got a new lease on life, complete with a poured concrete slab, an added floor of offices, and tiled flooring. Four buildings, four different stories; yet, inside, the same painstaking work in the studio and technical booth: a frame of treated wood, expanded polyurethane foam, two layers of plywood, one of them perforated to break up echo, a PVC carpet underfoot, a double-glazed window, and a padded door built to close without letting through so much as a breath of air. Everywhere, these studios also come with a multimedia room, a newsroom, offices, and restrooms.
Receiving Soundproofing Works
The reception of the soundproofing works mobilized UNESCO teams, each accompanied by a facilitator — a broadcast engineer — tasked with checking every element of the job, from studio to technical booth, flooring, glazing, doors, and air conditioning, against the terms of the work order. Completed by the end of August 2026, this reception process has now prepared all four localities to welcome their own community radio stations soon. The broadcasting equipment to be installed further down the line has, for the record, already been acquired and is ready to go.
