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After nearly 28 years, The Communication Initiative (The CI) Global is entering a new chapter. Following a period of transition, the global website has been transferred to the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in South Africa, where it will be administered by the Social and Behaviour Change Communication Division. Wits' commitment to social change and justice makes it a trusted steward for The CI's legacy and future.
 
Co-founder Victoria Martin is pleased to see this work continue under Wits' leadership. Victoria knows that co-founder Warren Feek (1953–2024) would have felt deep pride in The CI Global's Africa-led direction.
 
We honour the team and partners who sustained The CI for decades. Meanwhile, La Iniciativa de Comunicación (CILA) continues independently at cila.comminitcila.com and is linked with The CI Global site.
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Echonews-Schools – Nigeria

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Echonews-Schools Edition is a newspaper that circulates free of charge in 500 secondary schools in Lagos State,Nigeria. It is a community newspaper project that aims to restore community journalism to Nigerian youth. The students write stories about happenings in their school for the newspaper.
Communication Strategies
The organiser says: "The Echonews project began from the secondary schools because, it is a community that is generally ignored by the mainstream media and has not acquired strong biases for products in the media market. Secondly, they are at a very experimental age and I believe it will be easier to introduce them to new ideas and make them better citizens."

The newspaper is distributed for free in 500 secondary schools in Lagos. Ten copies are delivered to each school and five copies are kept in the library. The first edition was called Echonews-Students Edition, but at a principals' conference held in January 2004, most present felt the project should embrace all members of the school community: students, teachers and principals. The name was then changed to Echonews-School.
Development Issues
Youth, HIV/AIDS
Key Points
The project organiser, Kehinde Bamigbetan, seeks to create a newspaper that will grow from the bond with its community, sharing their pain and participating in their struggle to tame problems of nature and society.
Sources

Kehinde Bamigbetan sent an e-mail to The Communication Initiative on May 28 2004.