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April 2009

The Sunday Times Magazine – The Green Shoots of Hope

The Sunday Times Magazine journalist Richard Girling, who visited and wrote about the Nhambita Project in 2005, has recently returned to the project and written about the changes he has seen. He was accompanied by Bénédicte Kurzen, an award winning photo-journalist who has illustrated the feature which investigates grass-roots aid to Africa.

The Sunday Times Magazine will carry the article on Sunday 12 April 2009.

Richard Girling

is a senior feature writer for the Sunday Times Magazine. Voted Journalist of the Year in the 2008 Press Gazette Environmental Press Awards, he has also been Specialist Writer of the Year at the UK Press Awards (2002) and has been shortlisted for this award in 2005 and 2006. He has been a consultant to the former Department of the Environment and the Department of Culture, Media and Sport and author of campaigns for the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE).
(From Random Books)

Bénédicte Kurzen

is a French photographer currently living in South Africa. At the age of 23, she left Paris for Israel/Palestine. She has been a photographer since then, covering the news in the Middle East from Jerusalem to Charm El Sheick and from Beirut to Baghdad, until recently. Freelance but represented by World Picture News, her work has been seen in Paris Match, Newsweek, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, The Times of London, and Courrier International.

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