The New Times journalist, Gloria Anyango Iribagiza has been awarded White Ribbon Alliance voices award for having reported on maternal health and family planning.
Iribagiza has been awarded by White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood –Rwanda that is conducting a journalist’s workshop on maternal health and family planning issues.
In one-day training, Iribagiza was only given a certificate of recognition but will be flying to United Kingdom soon to pick her prize.
“I am so great full for the award given to me. This has increased my motivation to keep on creating awareness about Maternal Health.” Iribagiza said after receiving her certificate.
Asked why she finds much passion in reporting such stories Iribagiza said that Maternal Health stories were not reported before yet it affects major parts of human day today lives.
Iribagiza challenged her fellow journalists especially those in upcountry where a big part of the population affected by maternal and family planning issues so as create awareness to ensure the rate of affected people decreases.
According to Alphosina Mukarugema the chairperson of White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood –Rwanda, said that iribagiza led a team working on her desk in The New Times news paper where they reported extensively on maternal health and family planning hence contributing to its awareness.
Mukarugema who is also the president of FFPR, said that Iribagiza has been working so hard to report about maternal health while creating and increasing awareness on the program.
“She actually owned the whole program by reporting every segment, am sure the public must have been acquainted by her reporting,” Mukarugema has said in the ongoing training of journalists on maternal health and family planning.
It is said that every day 1000 women and girls, and 1000s of babies die during and after pregnancy and at child birth due to infections and complications.
The White Ribbon Alliance is an international coalition that pushes for change to make pregnancy and childbirth safe for women and newborn babies around the world.
Iribagiza published a magazine called Dreams for Rwandan daughters, which illustrated role of women in maternal health and family planning.
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