The Latin American Solutions Journalism Fund, created earlier this year by the Costa Rican media outlet El Colectivo 506, has completed its first call for proposals from journalists in Central America region who want to report on how our region is responding to its problems. Our call received 22 proposals; after a rigorous evaluation and selection process, six proposals were selected. These scholarships are funded by a donation from the Burgess Fund.
Our sincere thanks to the 22 people who sent in their proposals, and our congratulations to:
Diana Cecilia Hernández Anzora, El Salvador, who will report on a program working to recover and document the Nahuat language, still spoken in some communities in El Salvador.
Elena Parras, Costa Rica, who will work as part of a team to report on two communities in Costa Rica—one rural and the other urban—are composting their organic solid waste.
Jackeline Beatriz Tobar Miranda, El Salvador, will report on a community association in eastern El Salvador that is implementing a recycling program that has raised awareness and improved waste management in several communities.
Karla Michelle Rivera Hernández, El Salvador, will create an audiovisual product featuring Salvadoran women who, through the implementation of organic gardens, are addressing major problems such as access to fresh food.
Victor Manuel Pérez Pérez, Nicaragua, will study how Nicaraguan journalists in exile in Costa Rica have reinvented themselves, becoming entrepreneurs in the country that received them.
Wendy Raquel Urbina Moreira, El Salvador, will tell the story of Salvadoran women who have organized to protect the water sources on which more than 10,000 people depend, by stopping processes of deforestation and recovering cleared areas with reforestation programs.
The jury that selected the proposals was made up of the co-founders of El Colectivo 506, Katherine Stanley Obando and Mónica Quesada Cordero, and the co-founder of the Solutions Journalism Network (USA), Tina Rosenberg. The first round of selection evaluated whether the proposals included sufficient information about an existing response to a problem that is is already being implemented and can be studied, and whether the proposal addressed the four pillars of the Solutions Journalism. The second round assessed the capacity demonstrated by the journalist.
During the month of November, El Colectivo 506 will publish the final stories in Spanish and English in a month-long edition celebration of solutions journalism throughout the region.
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