Ears To Our World (ETOW) is a 501(c)(3) grass-roots, nonprofit organization that specializes in the distribution of self-powered world band radios to schools and communities in our developing world. We've now expanded our mission to include radios for disaster relief and for children who are visually impaired.
Our radio receivers enable children and their support networks in the most remote, impoverished areas of the world to receive:
Ears To Our World is working closely with our partners at Oklahoma State University and the Belize Ministry of Education, who themselves have a standing partnership in impoverished areas of Belize. OSU has created a learning lab at Unity Presbyterian Primary School, located in the heart of the most impoverished section of Belize City. The OSU learning lab supplies laptop computers and teacher training, while the Ministry of Education provides internet access, which can be difficult or expensive to obtain in Belize, within the lab setting. ETOW, meanwhile, has supplied portable self-powered radios to each teacher in the primary school; Thomas Witherspoon, ETOW's founder and Executive Director, was on hand to provide radio programming and training to these teachers.
Not only will Unity's teachers be able to receive global news and information via radio, both at home and at school, but they will share this information with their students for enhanced classroom learning.
Together with Dr. Edward Harris, OSU Professor and Williams Chair of Educational Leadership, Dr. Blayne Mayfield, also of OSU, and with the encouragement of the forward-looking Ministry of Education, ETOW hopes to develop a means by which radio can be used for distance learning throughout the country, and perhaps even for computer training.
ETOW is both honored and humbled to be featured in the May 2010 issue of the Wall Street Journal Magazine (see page 24 in the print edition). Writer David Goren’s stellar article brings to life our story, underlined by our mission-driven objectives, and highlights some of our recent significant partnerships; here is an excerpt: Last [...]
Ears to Our World’s first radios have arrived in Southern Sudan, care of our partner Project Education Sudan, a US-based charitable organization whose goal is to foster education in areas that have been ravaged by Sudan’s 20 year civil war, which has destroyed its existing educational system. Like ETOW, Project Educate Sudan believes that education [...]
Ears to Our World has a new web host and supporter, Memset, a carbon-neutral web hosting company, which will provide us with a dedicated server for our ever-growing web community. We would like to extend our sincere thanks to Memset for graciously providing us with a robust web hosting package with extremely reliable service, as [...]