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September 19, 2024
Communicator Fellowship Program sheds mild on underreported tales on youngster and adolescent psychological well being in low- and middle-income international locations
New York, NY — The Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Global Center for Child and Adolescent Mental Health on the Child Mind Institute named journalist Avit Ndayiziga of Bujumbura, Burundi, because the inaugural 2024 Communicator Fellow in partnership with the Carter Heart.
Mr. Ndayiziga will participate within the Carter Heart’s Local weather Change Psychological Well being Fellowship because of the help of the Stavros Niarchos Basis (SNF) as a part of its World Well being Initiative (GHI). The fellowship is an initiative of the Carter Heart Human Rights and Psychological Well being packages and goals to help journalists’ efforts to discover the impacts of local weather change on psychological well being in international locations with low socioeconomic standing. Throughout the modern two-year fellowship, Mr. Ndayiziga joined three different worldwide journalists from Uganda, the United Arab Emirates, and the Republic of Eire and 9 U.S. fellows for the annual assembly of Carter Heart Psychological Well being Journalism Fellows this week Fellows obtain stipends, coaching, and mentoring to help them whereas they conduct analysis and interviews to be used in a undertaking associated to their chosen matter. As an SNF World Communicator Fellow, Mr. Ndayiziga can even journey to the Baby Thoughts Institute in New York Metropolis to obtain coaching and mentoring in reporting on youngster and adolescent psychological well being.
“We’re delighted to announce Mr. Avit Ndayiziga as our inaugural SNF World Heart Communicator Fellow. His work in successfully speaking the intersection of local weather change and youngster and adolescent psychological well being is essential, and we’re excited to help him via this fellowship to additional his efforts,” stated Peter Raucci, this system director of worldwide fellowships on the SNF World Heart for Baby and Adolescent Psychological Well being on the Baby Thoughts Institute.
Mr. Ndayiziga is the editor in chief of Neighborhood Voice, a French- and English-language community-based media outlet in Burundi that investigates and publishes tales on underreported subjects, shedding mild on points corresponding to local weather change, well being, corruption, and human rights. He has beforehand reported on local weather change and health-related subjects via the Excellence in Well being Journalism Fellowship from Internews Well being Journalism Community and Aga Khan College.
“Psychological well being is an underreported and sometimes taboo challenge in Burundi,” stated Mr. Ndayiziga about his proposed undertaking, which was chosen from a pool of 250 candidates. “My reporting undertaking goals to lift consciousness and urge immediate actions to safeguard future generations. By reporting on this matter, I need to obtain a transparent information on coping with the psychological well being impacts of local weather change for younger folks.”
Burundi is ranked twenty second within the checklist of nations most weak to local weather change by the World Financial institution. Ripple results of trauma from a civil conflict that led to 2005, endemic poverty, and inner displacement on account of climate-related floods has elevated the prevalence of psychological well being issues within the nation, significantly amongst its younger — and 47% of the nation’s inhabitants is beneath 18 years of age.
“Due to the SNF World Heart on the Baby Thoughts Institute, we’re empowering proficient journalists to shine a light-weight on the actual and threatening psychological well being results of local weather change. We’re wanting to see these necessary tales informed in regards to the affect of local weather change on psychological well being and options to deal with it,” stated Eve Byrd, director of the psychological well being program on the Carter Heart.
The SNF World Heart Communicators Fellowship is a part of one of many six core initiatives of the SNF World Heart for Baby and Adolescent Psychological Well being on the Baby Thoughts Institute, which harnesses the Baby Thoughts Institute’s dedication to reworking the lives of kids battling psychological well being and studying issues.
Concerning the SNF World Heart on the Baby Thoughts Institute
The SNF World Heart brings collectively the Baby Thoughts Institute’s experience as a number one unbiased nonprofit in kids’s psychological well being and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation’s (SNF) deep dedication to supporting collaborative tasks to enhance entry to high quality well being care worldwide. The middle is constructing partnerships to drive advances in under-researched areas of kids’s and adolescents’ psychological well being and develop entry to culturally acceptable trainings, assets, and therapy in low- and middle-income international locations. This work is carried out by the Baby Thoughts Institute with help from SNF via its Global Health Initiative (GHI).
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