Much respect goes out to my friend and colleague Kevin E.G. Perry who recently got shortlisted for the Guardian International Development Journalism Competition. For his hard efforts, he was then sent to India to write an article for the Guardian about the NGO Find Your Feet and the traditional silk handloom weavers in Varanasi - this fellow hustler is living the freelance journo dream, and yes, I'm green with envy! More info on KP and his latest escapade can be read below on my preview article for Ctrl.Alt.Shift:
Feature: Kevin E.G. Perry On The Silk Road
Ctrl.Alt.Shifter Kevin E.G. Perry is a writer's writer; hugely respected here for his passionate and thought-provoking rogue reporting on issues from the 'Notorious P.I.G.' (on Swine Flu) to features on female genital mutilation in developing countries.
Good things come to those who hustle – as demonstrated by Kevin, who has recently been shortlisted for the Guardian International Development Journalism Competition; thanks to another inspiring piece of writing on sanitation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (published here, on Guardian online).
Almost a year after that trip to the DRC, and Kevin is off again, now in India writing an article for the Guardian about the NGO Find Your Feet and the traditional silk handloom weavers in Varanasi. The free-spirit activist/journalist will be documenting on the life and impoverished times of these workers whose livelihoods are being "threatened by cheap imports...a familiar tale of globalisation."
Read the full article here
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