Union of Environmental Journalists (UEJ)
Mission Statement:
To utilize the skills of mass media, theatrical and artistic
practitioners to educate civil society about the true status
of the environment in order to promote sustainable natural
resource management and aesthetic human existence.
Achievements:
1. Supported a Twelve-Year Broadcast Span
of Environmental Television Programme: ENVIROSCOPE and expanded
UEJ to 40 local members including 15 women.
2. Saved four slum communities from demolition
through Participatory Video, which influenced Government
Policy.
3. Provided Media Access to One Hundred Civil
Society Groups, Organizations and Networks with an influence
on Environment and Education Issues.
4. Used Electronic Broadcast Advocacy to
pressurize sand miners into reacceptance of a rotational
extraction and cessation of activities where beach erosion
cost a Million Dollars damage.
5. Readers, Audience and Viewers of UEJ’s
IEC components now benchmarked at two million Sierra Leoneans
per Year.
Environmentally related activities:
