The Board of Directors of the Dag Hammarskjöld Scholarship Fund for Journalists is pleased to announce the following recipients of 2008 Dag Hammarskjöld Fellowships.
Ms. Patricia Caycho
Magazine Caretas
Lima, Peru
Mr. Erick Kabendera
The Citizen Newspaper
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Ms. Ebtihal Mubarak
Arab News
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Mr. Grevazio Zulu
National Broadcasting Corporation
Lusaka, Zambia
We deeply regret that we could finance only four fellows. Among the nearly 200 applications there were so many qualified and talented print and broadcasting journalists that the selection process was extremely difficult and heartbreaking.
The Fund is operated by correspondents accredited to the United Nations on a voluntary basis and is financed by UN missions, foundations and corporations. Initiated in 1962, the Fund was established as a memory to Dag Hammarskjöld, the second U.N. secretary-general, killed in a plane crash in September 1961 en route to negotiate a cease-fire in the Congo.
