The schedule of broadcasting allows Radio Gune Yi to enjoy as much national coverage as possible. The contact persons are responsible for the follow-up and for encouraging activities in the listening centres, which are created in every community where a recording experience has taken place. In Senegal, only 15 percent of radio and television programmes address children. Programmes for children and youths are very rare, and when they do exist and are broadcast regularly, they lack clear objectives and quality. The Senegalese audio-visual environment offers very few time slots that concentrate on children.
Children make up more than half of the total population in Senegal.
They do not have appropriate access to information and do not enjoy freedom of expression. The goals of Radio Gune Yi s programmes are to inform, educate and entertain the children. The various segments about history and tradition, mastering the language, the rights of the child, on socio-cultural themes, and on educational themes such as health, AIDS, education of the girl child, and on PLAN International s activities are conceived in such a way as to transmit important messages to the young public. The results of surveys show that Radio Gune Yi fulfills its mandate to educate, inform and entertain the children. What is even better, it also does so for adults.