In Bolivia, radio is one of the mainstays of grassroots communication, promoting the return to democracy and giving a voice to the Aymara, Quechua and Guaraní cultures. These cultures now receive information in their own languages, on topics of their interest, thereby empowering communities and making their reality more visible. However, the Afro-Bolivian culture (located mainly in the Los Yungas zone of Bolivia) has unfortunately not been represented this way. Their reality has little visibility in the private and public media, with very few Afro-Bolivian communicators in the media.
 
Accordingly, through this project, Educación Radiofónica de Bolivia (Erbol) will offer education for Afro-Bolivian grassroots communicators (the majority of which will be women) in radio and digital journalism, with foundations in communication and democracy and a course in computing, in an effort to provide skills to inform of and portray the history and trans-culturalisation of the Afro peoples with other cultures. It is important for the historical process of these peoples and their current situation to be known by Bolivian society, in order to recognize their needs. The project will allow Afro-Bolivian journalists to consolidate via radio through the Aymara Network and the ‘Between Two Cities’ Programme (Radio Yungas and Erbol La Paz), and for trainees to get involved in the Erbol Network as correspondents via their own space devoted to the Afro culture on the www.erbol.com.bo digital newspaper, with an eventual view to forming an Afro-Bolivian network further down the line. This would provide these journalists with the opportunity to convey information effectively and to become familiar with the basic equipment they require in order to do so.