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Using Podcasting for Humanitarian Efforts

Using Podcasting for Humanitarian Efforts

With live podcasting events becoming more and more common these days, when you hear about something called the Podcast World Tour, that’s where your mind goes. So, its co-founder, Rich Casanova, wants to help clarify because he and his associates are using podcasting for humanitarian efforts and not to go somewhere for a couple hours one night to do a podcast and leave. They are road warriors who are helping create awareness for the Auditory Verbal Center, a 40-year old nonprofit that they adopted as the mission for their tour. Casanova talks about the three I’s for the tour. “‘Inform,’ be informed about what’s happening in that town, that city, the movers and shakers, from startups to icons to nonprofits, and just continue the conversation and inform them about what we’re doing. The second piece is ‘inspire.’ So, we’re looking for inspiring stories, inspiring people. Then we hope to inspire people to help us make an ‘impact.’ And the impact is… the Auditory Verbal Center.” Explaining that organization’s work, he says, “They literally take a kid that’s born deaf, or, severe hearing loss, and through two steps; implants, the surgery procedure, but it can’t end there because there’s actually been medical nonprofit organizations that ship these devices to third world countries, the surgery has been done, and the kid still lives in a silent world. There’s a most important second piece of it, is about two to three years of high-level speech therapy… During their weekly sessions for that entire two years or more, they have the parent, the child, and the therapist in the same space – up...