MANILA – Save the Children announces the top six winners of its first ‘Save the Children Media Awards: Uncovering Child Hunger and Malnutrition’, a competition recognizing media practitioners and their work in highlighting hunger and malnutrition as an urgent national concern.
Ten finalists were shortlisted for the categories ‘Most Outstanding Article’ and ‘Most Outstanding Photograph’ while special citations were given under Short films category. Voting for the People’s Choice Awards for Most Outstanding Photo and Most Outstanding Article was also opened to the public through Save the Children’s website: www.savethechildren.org.ph/LahatDapat
The media awards competition is part of Save the Children’s Lahat Dapat campaign which is the organization’s biggest campaign yet against child hunger and malnutrition.
Save the Children Country Director, Ned Olney, said: “The mass media have a critical role to play in informing governments, encouraging policy changes, vocalizing public clamor and in reaching out to the most disadvantaged and vulnerable. All of you here have made invaluable contributions to covering the impact of malnutrition over the last few years.”
He added: The first Save the Children’s Media Awards is not just an affirmation of the media’s noble work but it is a challenge and reminder for everyone that we need to do a lot more. By ensuring that the issue of hunger and child malnutrition is at the heart of national discourse in the upcoming elections, we can save more lives and indeed change children’s futures. “
Below are the list of winners:
Article category
· Most Outstanding Article – “Plenty of food, little nutrition in Benguet” by Fritzie Rodriguez
· People’s Choice Award – “National survey: We have many malnourished children” by David Bryan Lozada
Photo category
· Most Outstanding Photograph – “Silent Emergency” by Veejay Villafranca
· People’s Choice Award – “Mangaon Ta” by Frances Mae Canda
Special citations for audio visual materials
· Outstanding Online Animation – “We Can Stop Hunger” video animation from Rappler.com
· Outstanding News Documentary – “Mga Anak ng Pugad Lawin” by Kara David, I-Witness
FINALISTS
List of Most Outstanding Photo finalists, in no particular order:
· Edwin Bacasmas “Home, Street Home” for Philippine Daily Inquirer
· George Moya “Stroke of Hope” for Rappler
· Remar Zamora “Tulay” for ABSCBN News
· Richard Reyes “Tag-gutom” for Philippine Daily Inquirer/Bandera
· Danny Boy Pata “Hungry Children” for Manila Standard Today
· Fritzie Rodriguez “Rice on the Lip” for Rappler
· Veejay Villafranca “Silent Emergency: Battling severe malnutrition in Southern Philippines”
· Frances Mae Canda “Mangaon Ta” for Community-based Health Program NGO in Mindanao
· Rita T. dela Cruz “Bread of Life” for Project Pearls
· Luisa Therese Olarte “Still Surviving”
List of Most Outstanding Article finalists, in no particular order:
· Tess Bacalla “Philippines: Over Decades, Child Poverty Hasn’t Changed Much” for IPS News
· George Moya “Food Prostitutes, death by hunger and a feeding program” for Rappler
· Rina Jimenez – David “Milk and Malnutrition after ‘Sendong’ ” for Philippine Daily Inquirer
· Rosa Mae de Guzman “It takes a village to fight hunger” for Philippine Daily Inquirer
· Jodesz Gavilan “Is the minimum wage enough for a day’s worth of nutritious meals? For Rappler
· Iris Cecilia Gonzales “The invisible war on poverty” for Philippine Star
· Cristina Lazo “Amid soaring economy, UN execs urge PH to address widespread hunger for Interaksyon
· David Bryan Lozada “National survey: We have many malnourished children” for Rappler
· Ronalyn Olea “Children’s health at risk with low breastfeeding practice” for Bulatlat
· Fritzie Rodriguez “Plenty of food, little nutrition in Benguet” for Rappler
