Our Mission
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.

Why Radio?
Our radio receivers enable children and their support networks in the most remote, impoverished areas of the world to receive:
  • - educational programming
  • - local and international news
  • - emergency information
  • - health information
  • - weather, as well as
  • - music and arts programming.
Feature: ETOW works with OSU and the Belize Ministry of Education

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.

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