— How it started
Our story
Obongi District sits on the west bank of the Albert Nile, cut off from the rest of Uganda by water. There is still no bridge — only a ferry that runs on its own schedule, and a community that has always found ways to stay connected despite it.
Obongi Connections Radio started as an idea among local youth, teachers and returning diaspora members who noticed the same gap in every conversation: news travelled slowly, government updates arrived late, and the voices of refugees living alongside host communities in Palorinya rarely reached decision-makers.
We built a digital radio station to close that gap — broadcasting in Madi and English, reaching listeners over FM, the web, and mobile data, so that a ferry crossing is no longer the only way information reaches Obongi.