Read all about it! Trust employee wins journalism recognition
A member of The Learning Trust’s legal team has won national recognition for the quality of her reporting and writing skills.
Kym Beeston, senior employment lawyer at The Learning Trust, has been named as one of the 19 amateur journalists long-listed in this year’s Guardian International Development Journalism Competition.
The annual competition aims to raise public awareness of development issues and attracts hundreds of entries from professional journalists and aspiring writers. This year one of the themes was access to education for disabled children.
In her article, Kym talks about the plight of disabled children in Haiti who are almost completely excluded from education, placing their situation in the wider context of a failing education system (the average Haitian child receives a total of just 2.6 years of schooling) and a society devastated by the recent earthquake.
Kym decided to focus on Haiti after meeting people from the country whilst travelling last year.
‘The more I learned about the country and its problems, the more I felt it was something that needed to be written about,’ she said.
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