Sports, 3rd prize
Ebola Survivors Football Club
Tara Todras-Whitehill
The New York Times
The New York Times
21 April, 2015
Men of the Ebola Survivors’ Football Club wear club kit to practice.
The Ebola Survivors’ Football Club provides a support network for survivors of the disease and helps battle negative stigmas in the community. It was founded by Erison Turay, who lost 38 members of his own family to Ebola, in his hometown of Kenema, 300km east of Freetown.
Tara Todras-Whitehill
She is extremely invested in women's voices—trying to portray strong women changing the world around them. She is a co-founder of Vignette Interactive, a multimedia and software ...
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