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May 20, 2021 10:00 AM UTC
WASHINGTON, DC and LONDON, May 20, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Global Fund for Children announces the winners of the 2021 Juliette Gimon Courage Awards today, recognizing the perseverance of three organizations working to advance the rights of children and young people living in difficult circumstances.
This year’s winners include Youth Safety Awareness Initiative in Nairobi and Free Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop in Washington, DC, which are being honored for their work providing opportunities for youth who have been incarcerated and keeping young people out of jail.
For the first time, the Courage Award Selection Committee has also chosen a third winner, granting a monetary prize to an organization that cannot be named publicly due to repression against civil society groups in its home country. This organization has worked fearlessly to prevent violence against children and to promote their health and r
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Global Fund for Children recognizes two organizations empowering incarcerated and formerly incarcerated youth, as well as a third organization that cannot be named publicly.
WASHINGTON, DC and LONDON, May 20, 2021announces the winners of the 2021 Juliette Gimon Courage Awardstoday, recognizing the perseverance of three organizations working to advance the rights of children and young people living in difficult circumstances.
This year s winners include Youth Safety Awareness Initiativein Nairobi and Free Minds Book Club & Writing Workshopin Washington, DC, which are being honored for their work providing opportunities for youth who have been incarcerated and keeping young people out of jail.
For the first time, the Courage Award Selection Committee has also chosen a third winner, granting a monetary prize to an organization that cannot be named publicly due to repression against civil society groups in its home country. This organization has worked fearlessly to prevent viole
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Online, telephone Medicare workshop
The Shepherdâs Center of Greater Winston-Salem will have a free online workshop for individuals turning 65 and those who already have Medicare to learn about the different insurance options available, including âOriginal Medicare,â Medicare prescription drug programs, Medicare supplements and Medicare Advantage plans.
The session will be held from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Monday through computer and telephone access.
The session is designed to explain and clarify the Medicare sign-up process and educate attendees on how to make smart choices.
Space is limited and reservations are required.
For more information or to make a reservation, call 336-748-0217 or email info@shepherdscenter.org.
How Stories Work-Writing Workshop #3: Lightness
May 12, 2021
An update from the third Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett
A summary of the Workshop held on Saturday May 1, plus some of the output published below
Lightness is a
lightening of language whereby meaning is conveyed through a verbal texture that seems weightless, until the meaning itself takes on the same rarefied consistency.” -
Italo Calvino
“My working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight. I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language -