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SAT-7 KIDS, THE FIRST ARABIC CHRISTIAN CHANNEL FOR CHILDREN TO LAUNCH ON DECEMBER 10, 2007 £500,000 Matching Grant Available To Help Make this Christmas Present to the After more than a year and a half of planning, fundraising, and creating new programmes, producers working on the SAT-7 KIDS channel are in the final stages of preparing for its first broadcast. SAT-7 KIDS will go live exactly one minute after One hundred million children under the age of 15 live in the Arab world and at least half have access to satellite television.* This huge population of young people represent the future of the region, one currently torn by conflict, hatred and a lack of hope. Children living in the midst of strife often turn to TV as a place of safety where they can escape. TV can provide hope, new ideas and a place where young viewers often open their hearts to Christ’s message. Currently at least six other Arabic children’s channels are targeting this audience. Many of these purvey anti-Christian ideas and attitudes and some Arabic channels produce and broadcast violent programmes for children, some of which glorify martyrdom, even by children themselves. SAT-7 KIDS is the first and only channel to make quality, locally made, Christian children’s programming available 24 hours a day. SAT-7 KIDS will enable children to watch Arabic Christian programming any time that is convenient for them, across the five time zones in the Arab world. Entire families in the Arab world will be impacted as many parents will also be drawn to sit with their kids and take in the positive messages broadcast on SAT‑7 KIDS. Funding is still urgently needed for this project, to pay for new equipment needed to help make the extra programmes for the channel, which will potentially reach half of the children in the Arab world! To help meet SAT-7’s needs, a supporter has pledged to give one pound for every two pounds given to the ministry, up to £500,000! If you are interested in helping reach the over 100 million children of the Arab world, please consider giving a special gift this Christmas to SAT-7 KIDS. To qualify for this special match, donations must be received by December 31st! "Half of the homes in the Arab world today have Satellite television. This is a unique opportunity for such households to bypass the censorship on all kinds of media and to hear the Gospel," adds Mr. Ascott. *** [*According to BBC reports and independent satellite television research conducted by the Arab Advisors Group.] ENDS Note to the Editor: - SAT-7 broadcasts across
over 20 countries in the North Africa - SAT-7 creates and transmits a creative range of culturally appropriate, politically sensitive, high quality programmes, most of which are made locallyat studios in - SAT-7 is free to view and never asks for funds on air. It is supported by the generosity of supporters around the world who want to help make God’s Love visible across the - Independent research indicates that well over five million viewers watch SAT-7’s wide range of programmes each week. - These programmes include popular Middle Eastern drama, documentaries, news reports from around the region, children’s shows and programming for women: all - SAT-7’s work supports a wide range of Christian traditions in the region. - Over 200 million people in the access to Satellite television. - With half the region’s population under 25, and high levels of illiteracy, television is increasingly the medium of communication in the region. SAT To see a growing church in the SAT 7’s For further details about the work of SAT-7 and to support our work: Queries relating to this article: Tel: 01249 765865 email:office@sat7trust.org
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