Quindo is a local organisation in Kortrijk that focusses on making community radio for and by local youth. Alongside community radio, Quindo also has projects concerning photography, filming, social media and web applications. Quindo is a vzw (organisation without profit objective) that originated in 2012 in collaboration with Howest University, which provided media courses, and the city of Kortrijk that had a studio available. This organisation is currently run by three employees, Alexander, Broos and Thomas, and many volunteers. 150 individuals act as djs, presenters, technicians, editors, photographers, web designers and more. Together they provide several programmes and workshops for the youth of Kortrijk (Quindo, 2018a). Quindo is funded by the City of Kortrijk, the Province of West Flanders, the OCMW of Kortijk and the University College of West Flanders.
At the radio station of Quindo there are three main core activities. The first activity has an informative function which covers things relevant for young populations in the city of Kortrijk. The second one is an educational activity which provides introductory courses and high-level courses in the field of media production. This ranges from radio to video editing, drone flying, writing for the internet, developing studio voice, etc. The last one is the social function. At Quindo, they try to identify people in Kortrijk who are less privileged and have difficulties with feeling part of wider society. In addition, this brings some benefits for vulnerable people such as increasing employment opportunities, better social skills, and being more responsible towards their own life after they spend some time at Quindo.
Quindo's target group is youth from Kortrijk aged between 16 and 30 years old, with some exceptions for certain workshops and the participants are not required to pay or subscribe to anything. With Radio Respect, Quindo wants to include vulnerable local youth (Quindo, 2018a). Radio Respect wants to build bridges between all young community members of Kortijk. Furthermore, Radio Respect organises media workshops, projects and informal classes for vulnerable youth such as immigrants, young offenders, psychiatric patients, OKAN students, jobseekers, etc. With these youth, they focus on the development possibilities that are yielded by media production such as social skills (Quindo, 2018b). Another project of Quindo is Roots. This project emphasises non-native Dutch speakers, especially OKAN students and stimulates the use of Dutch through an immersive environment. Thus, this organisation aims to provide the youth of Kortrijk with information about all sorts of topics that interest them from social issues to leisure activities.