| NABJ President Bryan Monroe led a delegation of journalists to the Republic of Tanzania in May 2006 to focus on African health, malaria prevention and other issues.
The group documented the experience with day-by-day accounts through multimedia reports.
Prior to their departure to the eastern African republic, the NABJ delegation met with UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to discuss his efforts in the region at the United Nations headquarters in New York City.
While in Tanzania, the journalists traveled to villages around the region and met with several groups of African journalists from the Pan African News Agency and the Tanzanian News Agency. The group also visited local hospitals and communities in the region.
The trip honored the memory of NABJ member Akilah Amapindi, a recent graduate who had been working on the Student Radio project at the 2005 NABJ Convention in Atlanta. Amapindi died on the last day of the convention after contracting malaria during an earlier visit to Africa.
The fellowship was supported by grants from the Kaiser Family Foundation as well as the United Nations Foundation and other organizations.
For information about other NABJ/UN fellowships, contact NABJ Program Development Manager Ryan Williams at rwilliams@nabj.org or at 301.445.7100, ext 113.
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