SURVIVING AND THRIVING AS A SINGLE MOTHER

BY: AUNDA LAVINA HAPPY ADM9577/2021

A RADIO PROGRAM PROJECT SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE

REQUIREMENT FOR THE AWARD OF DIPLOMA IN BROADCAST JOURNALISM.

INFORMATION DEPARTMENT
KENYA INSTITUTE OF MASS COMMUNICATION
@MARCH 2023
PROGRAM SCRIPT
PROGRAM: Lone Parent Program Overview
TITLE: Single Parenting
WORKING TITLE: Surviving and Thriving as a single mother
FORMAT: Feature
FREQUENCY: Weekly
TX DAY: Saturday
TX TIME: 0600hrs
DURATION: 15minutes
LANGUAGE: English
PRODUCER: Aunda Lavina
PRESENTER: Aunda Lavina
TARGET AUDIENCE: All single mothers that have lost hope in raising their families.

NEED
There has been more and more families being raised by single mothers. Single mothers are
faced by a number of problems ranging from economic crisis, emotional stress and social
discrimination. This program seeks to explore the challenges faced by single mothers in Kenyan
society and how they endeavor to cope with such challenges that can be a barrier to parents. It
also aims to inform the public that single motherhood is not a curse.

OBJECTIVES
1. To find out what brought about the rise of single motherhood.
2. To find out the challenges and the struggles they face day in day out.
3. To find out how they cope with these challenges.
JUSTIFICATION
The evolving face of the Kenyan family is characterized in the 2019 national census where
families headed by single parents rose from 25.1 percent in 2009 to 38.2 percent in 2019
females being the highest. A 2012 Pan-African study by two Canadian sociologists revealed that
Kenya has one of the highest number of children born out of wedlock on the continent.
According to the survey, a Kenyan woman has a 59.5 percent chance of being a single mother
by the age of 45 either through pre-marital birth or dissolution of a union. The research also
established that about 30 percent of women in Kenya are giving birth before they are married.
Figures from the Kenya Demographic Health Survey, 2014 show that the national teenage
pregnancy rate was at 18 percent. Further, 15 percent of all adolescent women had given birth
and those that were sexually active unmarried adolescents accounted for 49.3 percent, a
potential number for single motherhood. The Kenya integrated Household Budget survey of
2015/16 reported that 32.4 percent of households in the country are headed by females.

SYNOPSIS
The program’s name is lone parent Program overview. This program is intentional towards the
promotion of the psychosocial skills in order to encourage single mothers as they fight to better
their lives and provide their families a future filled with hope and stability. The program will be
aired weekly every Saturday at exactly 0600hrs for fifteen minutes.

TREATMENT
The program will begin with the stations jingle which will fade after 12” followed by a sigtune
15” then fade less than 8”. There will be the introduction of the program by the presenter
which will include the background of the program. After the introduction the program will
begin.

REPORT

BUDGET
PERSONNEL NUMBER COST AMOUNT
Presenter 1 6,000 6,000
Producer 1 13,000 13,000
Director 1 5,500 5,500
Editor 1 7,000 7,000
Sound 1 4,000 4,000
Engineer
TOTAL AMOUNT = Ksh.35,500

EQUIPMENT No. OF COST PER AMOUNT

DAYS/QUANTIT ITEM
Y
Recording 2 days 2,500 per day 5,000
studio
Sound 1 day 1,000 1,000
recorders(zoom
H6)
Editing suite 2 days 3,000 per day 6,000
Headphones 1 1,000 1,000
Memory cards 2 @ 1,500 3,000
Batteries 2 @ 1,000 2,000
TOTAL AMOUNT = Ksh. 18,000

STATIONERY No. OF ITEM COST PER AMOUNT

ITEM
Pen 2 @20 40
Notebook 2 @50 100
Compact 2 @100 200
disks
TOTAL AMOUNT =Ksh. 340

OTHERS No. OF COST PER AMOUNT

 DAYS/QUANTITY ITEM
Lunch 4 500 2,000
Fare 2 300 1,000
Printing 2 500 1,000
script
proposal
TOTAL AMOUNT 4,000

TOTAL BUDGET; KSH. 57,840

MISCELLANEOUS (20%) = 13,000

TOTAL= KSH. 70,500

PROGRAM SCRIPT
PROGRAM: Lone Parent Program
TITLE: Single Parenting
WORKING TITLE: Surviving and Thriving as a single mother
FORMAT: Feature
FREQUENCY: Weekly
TX DAY: Saturday
TX TIME: 0600hrs
DURATION: 15minutes
LANGUAGE: English
PRODUCER: Aunda Lavina
PRESENTER: Aunda Lavina
TARGET AUDIENCE: All single mothers that have lost hope in raising their families.
PRESENTER; A great gauge of how mentally strong you are is to consider how
comfortable you are at being yourself. Welcome to our skyller FM’s lone parent
Program where we get to talk about some of the things that single parents go
through and how they cope up with these challenges day in day out, I am your
host Aunda Lavina.
On our topic today we are going to be focusing more on the single mothers. Did
you know that out of 11,000,000 single parent households nearly 80% are headed
by single mothers? Did you know that out of these single mother households, 30
per cent do not know where their next meal is going to come from, choosing
between paying rent or having food on the table, being evicted or having their
children go hungry?
Controls play sigtune 5” and fade……….
PRESENTER; Good evening, please tell us your name and what led you to be a
single mother and how it feels being a single mother.
Controls play insert 1”………
Cue in : My name is……….
Cue out:……..
PRESENTER: You have talked about the challenges you go through raising the
children alone, right, is it true that families headed by single mothers are among
the poorest households with more than a third living in poverty and are extremely
vulnerable to homelessness?
Cue in:…………
Cue out:……….
PRESENTER: Everyone or rather most people know that single motherhood is a
curse, is this true?
Cue in:……….
Cue out:………
Control sigtune play 5”……..
Commercial………..
PRESENTER: Welcome back to lone parent Program. I get to talk to Dr………………, a
sociology professor who’s going to give us more insight on single motherhood
parenting. Welcome Daktari, please introduce yourself to our listeners.
Cue in: Thank you, my name is………….
Cue out:………………..
PRESENTER: Thank you, what are some of the misconceptions raised by people
about single mothers?
Cue in:………………….
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PRESENTER: What are some of the things you’d like to share to single mothers to
help them cope with the challenges facing them so as they may be able to know
that single motherhood is not a curse?
Cue in: Good question………
Cue out:……………..
PRESENTER: Thank you Daktari for enlightening us that single motherhood does
not hinder one from achieving the very best for their families and one should not
lose hope. Let’s take a breather we will be back with more.

Controls play commercial…..

PRESENTER: Welcome back to our program, we’ve had some insightful comments
from Daktari on what single mothers encounter and how they cope up with this
challenges. I welcome Mercy Tinashe to tell us how life has been being raised by a
single parent.
Cue in: Thank you so much, I am Mercy Tinashe………………
Cue out:…………………..
PRESENTER: Has it always been your wish to maybe look for your dad for
reconciliation or you just okay the way you people are living?
Cue in: I don’t think if I’ll look for him because…………
Cue out:………………

PRESENTER: And just incase you’re wondering, many single mothers have
achieved a lot because they have undivided attentions, good role models to their
families and they learn to depend on themselves. Don’t underestimate yourself
for being a single mother.
On this note is where our program ends. If you think this is of great importance to
you, contact the Single Mothers Association of Kenya (SMAK) to get more details.
As always, join us every Saturday at 0600hrs for this and much more content on
single parenting. I thank Mr. Alex Kitua and My mum: Leah Kemunto as well as
everyone who made this program a success. This program is sponsored by the
Kenya Institute of Mass Communication, I have been your presenter, Aunda
Lavina.
Commercial……………
Station Identity………………

ENDS