Philip Ndegwa, the Kangema RANET station administrator, demonstrates how to tune in the radio frequency at the station’s office in Kangema, Kenya. — Thomson Reuters Foundation
KANGEMA, Kenya: In these hills a two-hour drive north of Nairobi, the weather can shift quickly and sometimes violently, as recent landslides along the winding highway make clear.
To keep up with weather alerts, farmers and traders have since 2008 turned to the Kangema Radio and Internet (RANET) communications system, a local radio station established with the Kenya Meteorological Department.
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Philip Ndegwa, the Kangema RANET station administrator, demonstrates how to tune in the radio frequency at the station’s office in Kangema, Kenya. — Thomson Reuters Foundation
Joyce Wachira (left), a producer at Kangema RANET, and her colleague work at the radio station’s studio in Kangema, Kenya. — Thomson Reuters Foundation
Kangema RANET staff near the door of the radio station in Kangema, Kenya. — Thomson Reuters Foundation
Kangema RANET staff take a break at the station’s automatic weather collection compound in Kangema, Kenya. — Thomson Reuters Foundation
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