The Guardian reporter, Waliat Musa, has received the Cleft Awareness Media Award (CAMA) Nigeria, 2022, as the second runner-up among a pool of journalists across the 36 states of the country. The award is in recognition of her passion and commitment to advocating the cause of persons with disabilities, especially, people living with cleft lip and palate in Nigeria. Other recipients of the award are Gyang Musa of Daily Sun Newspaper (winner) and Adenike Adebowale of Premium Times (first runner-up). She added: “Smile Train organised the CAMA Awards as a way to encourage journalists for their selfless services in creating awareness about cleft. We didn’t just choose the winners randomly; metrics was used, with judges in Nigeria, Kenya and Mozambique.” Read the remaining story on www.guardian.ng

Source: The Guardian December 01, 2022 13:16 UTC