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In 1995 Worldaware launched a scheme to give
local media journalists the opportunity to visit
communities in developing countries with which
their area has links. Since then the following
visits have taken place:
- Garfield Lloyd Lewis of BBC
Wales made a two-week trip to Argentina to
visit the Chubut province in Patagonia where a
Welsh community was set up in 1865.
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- Nicola Robertson of BBC Radio
Bristol spent two weeks gathering material
for a documentary on the Morris Minor factory
near Galle in Sri Lanka and recorded local
interviews around the Bath-based Morris Minor
Centre with which it is linked.
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- Gordon Swindlehurst of BBC Radio
Cumbria covered a schools linking project
between William Howard School in Brampton and
the Uru district of Tanzania.
All have been enthusiastic about the opportunity
it has given them to bring understanding of links
with distant places into the homes of their local
constituencies.
In June 1997 Carole Green of BBC
Wales visited Hong Kong with a cameraman to
cover the handover of the colony to China and Hong
Kong’s links with Wales. Three television and three
radio items were to be produced as a result of the
trip.
Worldaware hopes to expand this travel grants
programme in 1998. If you would like to be
considered for a grant, please contact Derek
Walker at Worldaware for more information.
Grants will be given only to local radio or
television stations, for the use of their
journalists.
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