Deadline: 30 April 2018
Thomson Reuters Foundation, in partnership with UBS Optimus Foundation is seeking applications for its Caring for Vulnerable Children in a Fractured World programme to develop their investigative and analytical skills around an under-reported topic close to the heart of the debate about sustainable development.
This programme encourages journalists to explore the risks faced by vulnerable children, and different domestic and international strategies to protect them. This is an intensive five-day training programme to provide practical skills, tools and strategies to report on this complex topic. It includes opportunities to meet experts on the issue combined with field trips.
It focuses on public and private initiatives to protect orphans or children abandoned or sold by impoverished families, and to offer them a future.
Funding
The Program will cover all travel and subsistence costs of journalists participating in this programme, by providing accommodation, meals and transport.
Eligibility Criteria
- Journalists working in English for domestic media across Africa may apply.
- They are particularly interested in journalists from: Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
- Journalists working in any medium may apply – print, radio, TV, online
- Journalists must be fluent in English
- Journalists must have a minimum of one year’s experience. They should either be working full-time for a media organisation, or a freelancer whose main work is journalism
How to Apply
Applicants can apply online via given website.
For more information, please visit Reporting on Vulnerable Children.