Media attention for children’s issues is low. They hardly reach the front pages and rarely are children interviewed themselves. Six newspaper journalists from developing countries stayed at RNTC in 2010 for a 4-week course on journalism and early childhood. The course is an initiative of the Bernard van Leer Foundation and was organized by RNTC.
The young and promising journalists were already active on child and youth issues. In the course they enhanced their knowledge on ‘Early Childhood’ and reporting skills on this particular topic. Back home, they aim to increase the quantity and quality of media coverage of issues affecting young children.
The course was an initiative of and financed by the Bernard van Leer Foundation. The foundation received over 300 applications on their call for participants. Only six of them were able to follow the course. They’ll be a fellow of the foundation for this year, 2010.
Watch the you tube video's with the stories of the participants:
Kanina Foss (South Africa)
Namita Kohli (India)
Carmen Matos (Dominican Republic)
Nick Oluoch (Kenia)
Tatiana Velasquez (Colombia)
The sixth participant is Erick W Ndung from Kenya (no video available)
Or read the interview with course participant Tatiana Velásquez
