Kenya

June 19th, 2012  |  By Round Earth Media

In Kenya, U.S. aid groups focus their efforts

"Give Us Wings" co-founder Mary Steiner meeting with the Young Victoria Womens's Group in Nyaoga Village in, Kenya, East Africa. | Photo courtesy of Give Us Wings

Tess Vigeland: Drought and war in the Horn of Africa have left a wide swath of the population there homeless and hungry. The United Nations says some 11 million people need aid to survive. Many of those displaced have headed to Kenya, which itself has deep economic problems. But for all the international aid Kenya has received over the last 30 years, life expectancy there has actually shortened and poverty rates are unchanged.

Mary Stucky reports. (more…)

June 18th, 2012  |  By Round Earth Media

Kenyan Singer Nina Ogot Inspired by Nairobi Youth

Nina Ogot is now drawing inspiration from the youngsters in Nairobi. | Photo by Mary Stucky

Kenyan singer Nina Ogot tells reporter Mary Stucky about her new musical inspiration: working with young people who live on the streets of Nairobi. (more…)

January 3rd, 2012  |  By Mary Stucky

Optimism about Journalism in 2012

In a world that is more interconnected than ever before, there is no substitute for original, informed, unbiased reporting.   It’s hard work and requires smart, knowledgeable, courageous journalists immersed in the cultures where they are reporting.  Their stories are important to all of us — not just in the “developed world,” but especially to an audience in the countries about which they are reporting.

Many of the best of those journalists were born and raised in the countries where they are working.  They’ve received diplomas from the world’s finest academic institutions (ie Columbia University’s famed journalism masters from which graduates increasingly return to work in their home countries) and training through organizations like the International Center for Journalists, which, over 3 decades, has worked with tens of thousands of journalists around the world.

These journalists are our partners. They are not our fixers.  They are our equal partners in publishing and broadcasting jointly reported stories in the U.S. and in the countries where we are working.   Read the interview with Sarah Ooko on our homepage and you, too, will be optimistic about journalism in 2012.

November 14th, 2011  |  By Mary Stucky

Meet Journalist Sarah Ooko

Sarah Ooko

A big reason for the excellence of our East African coverage is Sarah Ooko, 27, a freelance journalist based in Nairobi. As a frequent contributor to The EastAfrican, Ooko’s stories are read throughout the region. When not reporting, she works at the Kenyan Alliance of Health and Science Reporters under another of her mentors, the Knight Health Fellow Rachel Jones. The work Ooko produced for Round Earth Media in partnership with Mary Stucky will be broadcast on NPR and other media outlets in the weeks to come.

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