World Press Photo Story of the Year nominees
The World Press Photo Story of the Year award honors the photographer whose visual creativity and skills produced a story with excellent editing and sequencing that captures or represents an event or issue of great journalistic importance that year. The three nominees for World Press Photo Story of the Year are:
Those Who Stay Will Be Champions
Chris Donovan, Canada
The Flint Jaguars basketball team in Flint, Michigan, United States, embodies efforts to nurture stability, encourage mutual support and strengthen community spirit in a city struggling to survive. Basketball is an integral part of Flint culture, and the city once produced dozens of big names at collegiate and professional levels. For decades, four high school teams battled as fierce rivals. Now there is only one high school in town. In 2020, the team fought to turn around what had up until then been a nearly winless history. By March, they were prepared to head to the divi
Through several donation initiatives, over 94 million were raised in the country in the initial days of the humanitarian crisis.
Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS), had launched its ‘Heart for Lebanon’ campaign, aiming to provide relief, medical and food aid, emergency shelter, among other forms of humanitarian aid to support at least 300,000 affected people.
Now, QRCS has sent the third shipment of aid to Lebanon. This batch contained 50 tonnes of food items, to benefit as many as 1,050 families or 5,250 persons.
Additionally, some 100 beds were delivered to hospitals near the explosion site to help them continue providing medical services during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The development is likely to further delay the investigation into the horrific explosion that killed more than 200 people and wounded over 6,000 in Beirut
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Six months after Beirut Blast: Deteriorating humanitarian situation needs global solidarity
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The Lebanese Red Cross (LRC) and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) appeal for continued global solidarity with the Lebanese people who are suffering from a multi-layered humanitarian crisis. Six months after the Beirut Port Explosion, people have become poorer and sicker, as well as are in urgent need of humanitarian support to cover basic necessities such as food and healthcare.
In addition to the economic crisis and civil unrest, Lebanon is witnessing high numbers of COVID-19 infections. Currently, the LRC hotline receives more than 4,000 calls every day, related mostly to coronavirus patients. While the number of people infected by COVID-19 keeps increasing, hospitals are reporting near-full occupancy in beds and intensive care units. In response to this situation, LRC has launched an initiative to provide home oxygen machines to COVID-19