{"id":5212,"date":"2015-05-19T10:43:24","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T10:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asdhostingservices.com\/awdf-2\/?p=5212"},"modified":"2015-08-10T14:36:58","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T14:36:58","slug":"awdf-2014-writers-workshop-participant-eunice-kilonzo-wins-young-journalist-of-the-year-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/awdf-2014-writers-workshop-participant-eunice-kilonzo-wins-young-journalist-of-the-year-award\/","title":{"rendered":"AWDF 2014 Writers Workshop Participant, Eunice Kilonzo, Wins \u2018Young Journalist of the Year\u2019 Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span lang=\"en\">We are \u00a0proud to announce that Eunice Kilonzo, Kenyan journalist and a participant of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.africlub.net\/awdf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/AWW14-Participant-Profiles-3.pdf\">AWDF\u2019s \u00a0Women Writers Workshop<\/a>\u00a0held in July last year,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nairobinews.co.ke\/nation-writers-emerge-top-at-mck-journalism-awards\">received<\/a>\u00a0the <strong>2015 \u2018Young Journalist Of The Year\u2019<\/strong> Award at the Media Council of Kenya Journalism Awards in Nairobi, Kenya.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">Eunice\u2019s\u00a0entry article that earned her the award, \u00a0\u201cBlood on the floor, worse on the bed\u201d, tells\u00a0the story of\u00a0\u00a0Irene Chelegat, a young Kenyan woman, who at 13 years old was married, circumcised and divorced in a year after developing childbirth complications.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">To read Eunice\u2019s article and Irene\u2019s full story,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/lifestyle\/DN2\/Blood-on-the-floor-worse-on-the-bed\/-\/957860\/2266470\/-\/ke5qli\/-\/index.html\">click here<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"FGM cost me a baby and marriage at 13\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T0OgfMO4hJ4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong><span lang=\"en\">Click on the links below to read some more of Eunice\u2019s pieces:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\"><a href=\"http:\/\/voicesofafrica.co.za\/kenya-putting-end-transactional-sex-letting-girls-girls\/\">Kenya: Putting an end to transactional sex and letting girls be girls<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\"><span data-sheets-value=\"[null,2,&quot;Kenya miniskirt attacks: We need everyday activism, not a 16-day campaign\\n&quot;]\" data-sheets-userformat=\"[null,null,769,[null,0],null,null,null,null,null,null,null,1,0]\"><a href=\"http:\/\/voicesofafrica.co.za\/kenya-miniskirt-attacks-need-everyday-activism-16-day-campaign\/\">Kenya miniskirt attacks: We need everyday activism, not a 16-day campaign<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.africlub.net\/awdf\/world-aids-day\/\">World Aids Day 2014<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">Congratulations, Eunice!<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1020,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-news-blog-group","category-press"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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