The gentle giants of Rwanda
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By Susan Owensby
This week on The Sound Kitchen you'll hear the answer to the quiz
about Rwanda's national park – and its inhabitants. There's "On this
day", great music, and of course, the new quiz question - so click on
that little "Listen" arrow above, and join in!
Hello everyone!
Welcome to The Sound Kitchen. You can catch the programme on-the-air
every Saturday, at 4:52, 6:22, and 7:52 universal time
. You'll hear the winners' names announced and the week's quiz
question, along with all the other ingredients you have grown
accustomed to: your letters and essays, "On This Day", quirky facts
and news, interviews, and great music … so be sure and tune in every
Saturday.
Did you know there is such a thing as official RFI Clubs?
Up until now, they have always been French clubs, but now we want to
open them up to all our listeners … and open up we have! There are
already
12
brand new official RFI Clubs: in Kisii, Kenya, started by Mogire
Machuki; in Ain Kechera, Algeria, with Ferhat Bezazel as president,
and in Holguin, Cuba, started by Ivan Carralero. There are five RFI
clubs in India: in Murshidabad, with Mr Najimuddin as president; in
Medinipur, with Dr S S Bhattacharya at the helm; in
Hyderabad/Miryalguda, headed up by Mrs P Sreelatha Reddy; in
Sainikpuri/Secunderabad, with Hari Madugula as president, and in
Maharashtra, created by Sandeep Jawale. There are now three clubs in
Bangladesh: in Dhaka, started by Wali Ahad, in Rajshahi, with
Salahudin Dolar as president, and the Kaptai RFI Fan Club, headed up
Jahangir Alam. And a warm welcome to our newest club, the Kemogemba
Club in Tarime, Tanzania, with Ras Franz Manko Ngogo at the helm.
Welcome one and all!
What about you? You can either transform your existing radio club into
an RFI Club, or create a brand new one. Then, anytime you plan special
events – be they humanitarian, cultural, or sports-oriented; if you
want to host an environmental program, or a day dedicated to health
issues - RFI will help you with ideas
and free promotional items for your members. You'll also be eligible
to participate in special RFI Club events, like the upcoming football
tournaments. RFI's Listener Relations Department will sponsor football
tournaments for the Clubs in June, when the World Cup Football
Tournament is on. RFI is furnishing the team tee shirts, the footballs
and trophies, as well as RFI banners. And you'll hear all about the
Club games on The Sound Kitchen!
If you are interested in either changing your radio club into an RFI
club, or if you would like to create a brand-new RFI club, the first
step is to read the RFI Club Charter:
http://clubsrfi.blogs.rfi.fr/sites/clubsrfi.blogs.rfi.fr/files/The%20RFI_Club%20Charter.pdf
If you are willing to abide by the Charter, write to my colleagues in
the Listener Relations Department and let them know. They'll help you
with the rest of the process.
Sébastien Bonijol
Chrystelle Nammour
RFI – Relations Auditeurs
80, rue Camille Desmoulins
92130, Issy-les-Moulineaux
France
This leads me to another item of interest: the RFI Listeners Club. Our
Listener Relations department has decided that everyone can belong to
the RFI Listeners Club, but you will only be issued a membership
number, not an identity card. Only members of an official RFI Club
will have identity cards. As an RFI Listeners Club member, you will
still win a premium prize if you win a Sound Kitchen quiz. So no
reason not to join – although having an official RFI Club is far more
cool.
If you only want to be a member of the general RFI Listeners Club –
that's great, too! Just send me (or Sébastien and Chrystelle) your
full name, your postal mailing address, and if you have one, your
e-mail address. You'll receive an RFI Listeners Club number; include
that number every time you enter a quiz, and if you are a winner,
you'll get a premium prize!
Nota bene: The RFI Listeners Club used to be called "Club 9516". So if
you are a member of the "Club 9516", you are already a member of the
RFI Listeners Club. Your "Club 9516" membership number still works –
no need to reapply. Just include your membership number on your quiz
entries.
The Sound Kitchen Listeners Cookbook has been published! It is a
lovely little book and I am quite pleased. Many thanks to everyone who
contributed. We are going to use it as a prize for the quiz, so let me
know if the cookbook is what you would like for us to send to you if
you win a quiz.
Today's question was read on 12 April by my friend and colleague Laura
Angela Bagnetto, who had just come back from covering the 20th
anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda. She asked you a question about
the national park there, where you can see a protected animal. There
are only four places in the world where you can see this animal, and
one of them is in this park in Rwanda. You were to send in the name of
the park, and the name of the animal.
The answer is: Volcanoes Park. The protected animal who lives there is
the mountain gorilla.
It was something of a tricky question – many of you wrote in with the
name of the park in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) - the
Virunga National Park. The Virunga National Park, along with Volcanoes
Park in Rwanda, and Mgahinga Park in Uganda, are side-by-side … there
is just a man-made border between the three. Together the three parks
in the three nations make up the 434 square kilometer Virunga
Conservation Area.
Borders and countries have changed since the conservancy was created
in 1925. At that time, the entire area was known as the Belgian Congo.
But that is no longer the case, and the three nations which house the
conservancy – Rwanda, Uganda, and the DRC – all administer their
separate parks independently.
There is one other place where you can see mountain gorillas, aside
from these three parks: the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in
Uganda, although some primatologists say that the Bwindi gorilla
population in Uganda may be a separate subspecies of gorilla.
Rwanda, Uganda, and the DRC are to be congratulated for their efforts
to protect the mountain gorilla. The three nations are dedicated to
conservation, and try – the DRC has special problems, due to a
volatile political situation – but they all three do their very best
to ensure the mountain gorillas stay with us, and thrive! Although
still on the Critically Endangered List, the mountain gorilla
population has almost doubled since 1981, when a census estimated that
only 254 gorillas remained … today, that estimate is around 950.
So bravo Rwanda, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo!
The winners this week are: Muhammad Sadiq Jahangeer from Karachi,
Pakistan; Mrs E Vijayalakshmi from Chennai, India; Mrs Farida Yasmin
of the Kaptai RFI Listeners Club in Bangladesh, and two members of the
RFI Listeners Club: Hans Verner Lollike, from Hedehusene, Denmark, and
Agwe Atoh, from Mbengwi, Cameroon.
Congratulations, winners!
This week's question is about the crowned heads of Europe – or the
recently uncrowned heads, or the soon to be uncrowned heads, of
Europe. This past Monday one of Europe's monarchs announced he would
abdicate in favor of his son. This seems to be a trend: two other
monarchs abdicated in 2013. I want you to send in the name of the
three European monarchs who have recently abdicated – the two who did
so in 2013, and the latest, who announced his intention to pass the
royal mantle on to his son this past Monday. Send in the name of the
new kings, too … because it just so happens all three who have
inherited (or will inherit) the orb and scepter are sons.
Get your answer in by 14 July and be sure to tune in on 19 July to see
if you are one of the lucky winners! As always, be sure you send your
postal address in with your answer … and, if you have one, your RFI
Listeners Club membership number.
Send your answers to:
english.service@rfi.fr
or
To our new mailing address:
Susan Owensby
RFI – The Sound Kitchen
80, rue Camille Desmoulins
92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux
France
or by SMS … You can also send your quiz answers to The Sound Kitchen
cell phone !!!!
Dial your country's international access code, or " + ", then 33 6 31
12 96 82. Don't forget to include your mailing address in your text –
and if you have one, your RFI Listeners Club membership number.
Remember, it's not just the quiz which wins you a prize. If your essay
goes on the air, you'll find a package in the mail from the Sound
Kitchen. Write in about your community heroes – the people in your
community who are quietly working to make the world a better place, in
whatever way they can. As listener Pramod Maheshwari said: "Just as
small drops of water can fill a pitcher, small drops of kindness can
change the world."
I am still looking for your "This I Believe" essays, too. Tell us
about the principles that guide your life … what you have found to be
true from your very own personal experience. Or write in with your
most memorable moment, and/or your proudest achievement. If your essay
is chosen to go on-the-air – read by you –
you'll win an RFI radio or a box set of world music CDs, edited by RFI!
Send in your musical requests, your secret "guilty" pleasure (mine's
chocolate!), your tricks for remembering things, your favourite
quotations and proverbs, descriptions of the local festivals you
participate in, your weirdest dream, the book you are reading and what
you think about it, or just your general all-around thoughts to:
thesoundkitchen@rfi.fr
Include a phone number, so I can call you. I look forward to hearing
from you soon!
All the best,
Susan
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