Winners have emerged in the 2022 Cleft Awareness Media Award (CAMA) Nigeria held on November 30, 2022.
The winner of the 2022 Cleft Awareness Media Award (CAMA), Gyang Bere, a Daily Sun reporter, received a cash price equivalent to $600 while Mrs. Nike Adebowale-Tambe, a a Senior Health Reporter with PREMIUM TIMES and the second runner-up, Waliat Musa of The Guardian Newspaper got the equivalent of $400 and $300 respectively.
The annual award is organised by Smile Train, one of the world’s largest Cleft charity organisations.
Speaking at the award ceremony in Abuja, Victoria Awazie, the Senior Programme Manager, West Africa, for Smile Train, said CAMA is a way of encouraging journalists and the work they do.
“We realised that journalists do not give the correct information about cleft and because there is a lot of stigmatisation surrounding it, people tend not to understand what this is.
This prompted Smile Train to organise training and workshops for journalists to understand what cleft is all about and how to report about it.
The award is therefore a way of encouraging journalists and their work because we know they render selfless services.”
Ms. Awazie said the three winners were selected out of 32 entries. She said judges were from Kenya, Mozambique, and other countries.
At the event, Smile Train’s Vice President and Regional Director, Africa, Nkeiruka Obi, also received an award from the Nigerian Society of Anaesthetists (NSA) in collaboration with the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (WFSA).
