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International recognition for JHR-mentored journalists from Liberia
Two Liberian journalists who benefited from jhr’s mentoring program have been recognized for their quality reporting and rewarded with international training opportunities. Truth FM reporter Oniel Bestman was recently contacted by the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) and commended for his excellent reporting. Bestman had just finished four months of mentorship from jhr-trainer
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JHR story shuts down child brothel in Liberian refugee camp
A recent series of reports produced by JHR-trained journalists has shut down a girls’ orphanage in Buduburam, a Liberian refugee camp on the outskirts of Accra, Ghana, that was being run as a child brothel. During a visit to the refugee camp in April, JHR-trainer Danny Kresynak, working alongside Philip Kofi Ashon and Karim Mahamad of CITI FM, discovered that orphaned refugee
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JHR-trained journalist helps transform hospital conditons in Bong Country, Liberia
Nathan Charles, a JHR trained journalist, spent over two months investigating and exposing the poor conditions at the Bong Mines hospital in Bong County, Liberia. Through his ongoing investigation, Charles discovered that not only did the health center have inadequate facilities to serve the surrounding community, it also was short on doctors and medication.
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JHR investigation results in a new ambulance for a hospital in Liberia
Monrovia – Dr. Benedict Kolee has served as chief medical officer at the Jackson F. Doe Regional Referral Hospital, located in Liberia’s northern Nimba County, since February 2011, when it was inaugurated by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. In that time he has seen firsthand the complications posed by one of the hospital’s principal obstacles: the
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jhr Story Leads to Minimum Wage Hike in Liberia
In late May 2011, jhr trainers Aaron Leaf and Janey Llewellin organized a reporting trip for Liberian journalists to investigate working conditions at an iron ore mine in the north of the country. In discussions with both workers and management, the journalists discovered that local workers were being hired as sub-contractors, on call. They had
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Liberian Minister of Education Suspended Following jhr Story
At the E.J. Goodridge School in rural Liberia, students were suffering from overcrowded classrooms, lack of chairs and deplorable building conditions. Student who did not get seats either stood to learn or left school for the day. One student broke his arm while fighting to secure a seat
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