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2005-6 Simon Cumbers Media Challenge Fund grant recipients
2003-4 Media Challenge Fund grant recipients
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2007 recipients of the Simon Cumbers Media Challenge Fund

2007 TV Seed Grant

Michael Kelly, Herdboys, Lesotho
Re 'moho - Twinning The Kingdoms

A short film documenting the work of Kerry based organization Twinning the Kingdoms. This group fund local projects in Lesotho. Shot and edited by Michael Kelly with special thanks to Ailbhe Keogan. Directed by Eileen O'Leary.

This not the TV seed report (see below) but is a report written by Ailbhe Keogan following her trip to Lesotho with Michael Kelly .

Seed reports
As the TV Seed Production Grant is for seed funding - i.e. development of the project - and there is no requirement for an agreement to broadcast when applying, it is not expected that projects be produced and broadcast within the six-month deadline. So, to qualify for the final 20% of the grant, grantees are required to submit a narrative and financial report at the end of the six-month period. If projects are subsequently broadcast grantees are required to submit the finished project to Connect-World for the archive. Here is an indicative selection of recent reports.

Animo Television TV Seed Report (final report)
Midas Television TV Seed Report (final report)

2007 Standard Grant II

Print: The African Voice, Article series
Expectations rise - as Ghana hits black gold (page one, page two), Kwabena Mprah Jnr, August 2008, p 14-15 © The African Voice
Africa: the impact of the Irish missionaries still lingers, Vivian Atime, May 2008, p9 © The African Voice
Africa’s missing billions: International arms flows and the costs of conflict, Vivian Atime, April 2008, p15 © The African Voice
Female genital mutilation: the underlying factors, Joyce Akpotor, April 2008, p14 © The African Voice
The Integration Experiences of African Families in Ireland, Ogbemi Jakpa, March 2008, p14 © The African Voice
Child Trafficking: The African Route, Joyce Akpotor, February 2008 © The African Voice
and Separated Migrant Children in Ireland, Dr Claire Healy, February 2008 © The African Voice 

Mixed media: Joe Zefran, Global Classroom.
Global Classroom © RTÉ, July 28-31
Monday - Part One: Camara. Blathnaid Healy in Mombasa, Kenya.
Tuesday - Part Two: Hole in the Wall. Joe Zefran in India.
Wednesday - Part Three: One Laptop Per Child. Blathnaid Healy in Rwanda.
Thursday - Morning Ireland Debate  

Radio: Susan Cahill, Can I Forgive My Husband? Uganda
Different Voices (Series 2) Part 9: Can I Forgive My Husband? (MP3 Podcast), July 5, 2008 © Newstalk
Read the reviews in the Irish Times (July 12), the Sunday Business Post (July 13) and the Sunday Tribune (July 13).

Print (Photography): Ross McDonnell, Cultures of Change, Kenya
Us and them: Kenyans on the sharp end of climate change (2.7MB), July 2008, pp40-44 © Totally Dublin

Radio: Louise Williams, The Humble Bean, Ethiopia  
Different Voices (Series 2) Part 7: The Humble Bean (MP3 podcast), June 22, 2008 © Newstalk

Print: Colin Murphy, Surviving the Coffin Ships, Morocco
Living on the edge of Europe, June 8, 2008 © Sunday Tribune 
A long day’s journey into Europe, Issue 3, 2008, pp 18-20 © Magill

Mixed media: Senan Hogan, The School Around The Corner, Zambia 
The School Around The Corner: Education services for HIV/Aids Orphans in Zambia, photography exhibition, Naas Library, June 3-7. Photographs by Peter Shaughnessy. Exhibitions were also to be held in Co Roscommon and Co Leitrim.

Radio: Aoife Kavanagh, Climate change and Africa
Climate change impacts Malawi, Morning Ireland, March 3, 2008 © RTÉ
Carbon miles in climate change, Morning Ireland, March 4, 2008 © RTÉ
Climate change and Africa: Geothermal energy, Morning Ireland, March 5, 2008 © RTÉ

Print: Juno McEnroe, Ireland's Love Affair with Kenyan flowers, Kenya
Lake Naivasha in danger of turning toxic, February 14, 2008 © Irish Examiner
The damaging thorn in Kenya’s blooming trade, February 14, 2008 © Irish Examiner
Prime resource and habitat under threat, February 14, 2008 © Irish Examiner
Does the fair trade deal smell of flowers or manure? February 14, 2008 © Irish Examiner
Town calms but deep-rooted tensions persist, February 14, 2008 © Irish Examiner
Government introduces lakewater charges, February 14, 2008 © Irish Examiner
Poor families depend on picking roses, February 14, 2008 © Irish Examiner
Commercial greed - A threat to Kenya’s bed of roses (Related Editorial), February 14, 2008 © Irish Examiner

Print: Conor Creighton, Steve Ryan, Sex tourism in Thailand
Dear John: A week at the world’s most popular sex resort , February 2008 © Totally Dublin

2007 Standard Grant I

Print: Jane Doran, Finbarr Rourke, Growing Up the Hard Way, Vietnam
Children of the Dust , June 5, 2008, © Irish Examiner
Photos will be added shortly...

Radio: Pat Walshe
Black + White + Shades of Gray, June 3, 2008 © Connemara Community Radio

Print: Senan Hogan, Home from home, Burma
Burmese refugees adjusting to new life of freedom in Mayo, Friday, January 4, 2008, © Irish Examiner (Photos: Julien Behal)
Burmese families escape persecution to start new lives, Friday, January 4, 2008, © Irish Daily Mirror
A place to call home, Friday, January 4, 2008 © The Irish News
Burma refugees dream of return home, December 21, 2007 © Irish Independent
Burmese refugees dream of return to troubled home, December 20, 2007 © Irish Examiner
Burma refugees resettled in Mayo, Sunday, December 9, 2007 © Ireland.com
More Burma refugees arrive, Sunday, December 9, 2007 © breakingnews.ie
Inside the Mae La refugee camp, © PA
Refugees from Burma begin new Irish life [.JPG], September 19, 2007 © Evening Herald
Burmese arrive in Mayo, September 19, 2007 © Irish Examiner
Burma refugees settle into Mayo, September 19, 2007 © Metro
West gives new life to resettled refugees, September 19, 2007 © Herald AM. View all articles above as a single file [.TIF]

Mixed media: Louise Williams, EU El Dorado, Senegal
[  Shortlisted for the One World Media Awards]
Death on the road to ‘El Dorado’, Sunday, December 30, 2007 © The Sunday Business Post
EU El Dorado, Sunday, December 30, 2007 © Newstalk 106-108

Habib Ndoye boat builder in Mbour port. Photo: Louise Williams

Radio: Soledad Galiana, Making Globalisation Local
Privatisation - The Local and Global Issue, December 21, 2007 © NEAR FM
Part I Water Privatisation in Latin America
Part II Water Privatisation - Impact in Communities
Water Privatisation promo

Radio: Mags Murphy ID (Identity), South Africa
ID, November-December, 2007 © KCLR 96 FM
ID Part I
ID Part II
ID Part III

Short reports: ID Reports I-III

Print: Michael Brennan, Violence against women in the Bahia State, Brazil
’Some police are pimps, some are clients... the gangs control the area’ (also [PDF] , Thursday 20 December 2007 © Irish Independent

Mixed media: Pól Ó Conghaile, Kim Haughton, Climate Change in the Mekong Delta
Delta Blues , November 24, 2007 © Irish Examiner

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Mixed media: Dusty Rhodes (and Alison O'Reilly), Ethiopia
My Tax Goes Where © Limerick's Live95FM, November 8, 2007
Farmer (Parts I-II)

HIV (Parts I-II)

Street Child (Parts I-II)

Orphans are in plastic bags for nappies but HSE backlog means I can’t give the boy a real loving home , Alison O’Reilly, September 23, 2007 © Sunday World Magazine. Pictures: Abdu; Picture 2; Picture 3 Awaiting additional content...

Alison O'Reilly, her son Cabhlach and Abdu (right)

Mixed media: Kevin Rafter, Plant Those Trees
Malawi Photos, Kevin Rafter's Blog, September 6, 2007 
Discussing the effect of climate change in Malawi on the Mooney show (intro: 1:05:28; start 1:15:32) ,
September 5, 2007 © RTÉ
Drought and hunger: the real face of climate change , September 2, 2007 © Sunday Tribune
’People are living on nothing so we have to respond to that’ , September 2, 2007 © Sunday Tribune

Children at Mibwabwa, an isolated village about an hour north of the capital. Concern has helped the villagers to dig a 3km-long water canal. On previously idle land, the local people now grow year-round crops including tomatoes, sugar cane and other vegetables, including Irish potatoes. Photo: Kevin Rafter.

Mixed media: Paul Kelly, East Timor...
Beyond Timor - Photography Exhibition, July 20 2007, The Hive (map), Sir John Rodgerson’s Quay, Dublin. Proceeds went to Pradet, an NGO working in East Timor. View photographs on Paul Kelly's website.
Access All Areas: Radio Interview with Edel Coffey, July 17 2007 © Phantom 105.2 FM
The only show in town: East Timor's mental health crisis, June 2007 (cover story, pp. 1, 24-28) © Totally Dublin. Words: Emma Ologhlen / Pictures: Paul Kelly.
People - Photography Exhibition, a collection of photographic portraits from East Timor and around the world, Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford, May 10 to June 28 2007. Article in Waterford Today. The exhibition was filmed on City Channel [Watch video].
Moving on from a painful past, 11th April 2007 © Irish Examiner.

Amaro. Photo: Paul Kelly

Radio: Elizabeth Laragy, Transfusing Stories...
STIGMA, RTÉ Radio 1: Documentary on One, first broadcast June 27, 2007 © RTÉ, listen. Compiled and presented by Elizabeth Laragy. Production supervision by Peter Woods

Mixed media: Joe Humphreys, Timor Leste: Building a Nation (Photographer: Bryan O'Brien)
East Timor struggle may yet realise a failed state, April 9 2007 © The Irish Times
Is there hope for East Timor? April 7 2007, © The Irish Times
Timor-Leste: Nation building in a troubled land, April 7 2007 © The Irish Times
A Dubliner in Dili, April 7 2007, © The Irish Times
Photos: Gallery 1, Gallery 2

A campaigner for defeated presidential candidate Lu-Olo of the Fretilin party canvassing members of the public on the street in Dili, capital of Timor-Leste. Photo: Bryan O'Brien.

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