Radio-Dodo: the project offering Syrian refugee children bedtime balm

Canadian Brigitte Alepin’s brainchild is a bilingual radio station with stories, songs and segments to help Syria’s scattered kids get to sleep

“Attention ladies and gentlemen, come closer! The circus – and your favourite radio show – is about to start,” says a French-Canadian veteran journalist in French. He turns to his co-host, a Syrian storyteller, who repeats the words into her microphone, this time in Arabic.

In the tiny downtown studio of a student radio station in Montreal, Bernard Derome and Marya Zarif are recording a radio show for Syrian refugee children.

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