14 August 2008 - Winners of the WASH Media Awards 2007-2008 announced!

 

Four talented female journalists from Africa and Brazil -- including three working primarily in radio -- were named on the 14th of August 2008 as winners of the international WASH Media Awards competition for their excellence in reporting on water, sanitation and hygiene issues.

The journalists, and their winning entries are: Winfred Onyimbo, 33, Trans World Radio, Kenya, "Disease in bottle"; Cátia Toffoletto, 43, CBN - Radio São Paulo, Brazil, "Water, the waste condemning São Paolo"; Claudine Efoa Atohoun, 45, Office of Radio and Television, Benin, "Dassa, the commune of the 41 hills"; and Salome Gregory, 26, Mwananchi Communications Limited, Tanzania, "This is Same, where fetching water means children miss classes". They will be honoured in the WASH Media Award's English, Spanish, French and Gender categories, respectively.

For being the best of more than 140 entries submitted from 40 countries, the winning journalists will travel to Stockholm, Sweden, for the 17-23 August World Water Week, where they will participate in sessions and collect their awards in front of leading water, sanitation, environment and development experts. The bi-annual competition is sponsored by the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) and the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI).

Please click here to read more about the WASH Media Awards, to see the winners' pictures, read their articles or listen to their radio reportages; or here to read the press release.