United Nations Radio

The United Nations World Food Programme, WFP, offers for young people special activities called food for training and food for work. In these activities, young people receive meals or food in exchange for participating in skills training or work projects. One partner of WFP in these activities is the Youth Development Movement, YDM, which has a youth training centre currently located on the eastern outskirts of Freetown. The centre is currently using the Food for Training model to train about 200 young people to learn a trade. To find out more, the UN Communication Group in Sierra Leone spoke to the director of the centre, David Ya Yambasu.

UNICEF Radio: Importance of Hygiene in South Sudan

Clean water is essential for good hygiene and general health. Without it, diseases such as typhoid, malaria and cholera flourish. We'll hear more in this UNICEF report by Dorothy Lurit, a teenager from Southern Sudan.

Unravelling the secrets of Egyptian mummies

In ancient Egypt, the embalming of a corpse, or mummification, was believed to give safe passage to the deceased in the afterlife. Thousands of years later, radiation technology is being used to study and preserve this cultural heritage. Dr. Rethy Chhem is a radiologist with the IAEA, the UN's agency promoting the peaceful use of nuclear energy. His favourite hobby is studying mummies to find out how they lived and what killed them. He is as much passionate about the dead as he is about the living.

Producer: Jocelyne Sambira
duration: 14'00"