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Karen heading to Uganda after winning competition


Published on Friday 4 December 2009 11:46

Mary Cody

KILKENNY student Karen Reidy was overjoyed to discover on Monday evening that she had been whittled down from hundreds of entries and announced as the overall winner of the European Commission Humanitarian Aid department (ECHO) ‘Crisis Correspondent – Reporting from Uganda’ competition.

The popular young aid worker will travel to Uganda in early January to get first-hand experience of the humanitarian aid that ECHO and the Irish NGOs provide there. Karen will record her experiences over there and make a documentary on her return.

The competition was open to over 135,000 third level students in Ireland and Karen, who is completing an MA in Development Studies at Dublin City University received enough votes from the public to secure a place in the final.

However it was her own talent and enthusiasm which impressed the expert judging panel including Richard Downes, presenter on RTE’s Morning Ireland; Lelia Doolan, former Chair of the Irish Film Board and founder of Ireland’s first media studies course; and Emma Ledden, the first Irish person to be an MTV VJ and now a successful media and communications training professional.

A delighted Karen told the Kilkenny People that she was over the moon to have won. “I am very excited about going over there. I will be spending my time in the north of the country which has been ravaged by war and I will be meeting a lot of displaced people. It is my hope that they will share their personal stories with me,” she said. “I also want to thank everyone who voted for me and supported me,” she added.

Further information is available at the competition website, www.crisiscorrespondent.ie. Karen has contributed to the Kilkenny People on her overseas work last summer in NIgeria and will pen a piece for the paper on her trip to Uganda early in the New Year.


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