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Seychellois Broadcaster Wins SADC Documentary Competition

Last week in Windhoek, Namibia, Ms. Anna Ah-Wan, a radio broadcaster with the Seychelles Broadcasting Corporation was awarded first prize in a radio documentary competition. Her episode from a 13 episode series, titled 'Water is Life', won with the competition running with the theme 'Water in the SADC Region'.

Ms. Ah-Wan explained that the 'Water is Life' series was thanks to another prize, she won in 2008 when she submitted a proposal for her documentary to the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association and was subsequently awarded a £2000 travel bursary with which to conduct her research.

This the first time that Seychelles has entered in the competition and Ms. Ah-Wan was delighted to achieve this after seventeen years in broadcasting. The outgoing SADC Chairperson, H E Joseph Kabila Kabange, awarded the prize of $2000 to Ms. Beryl Samson, Director General of Development and Regional Integration for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who attended on Ms. Ah-Wan's behalf.

The 'Water is Life' feature, Ms. Ah-Wan explained, was thanks to another prize, she won in 2008 when she submitted a proposal for her documentary to the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association and was subsequently awarded a £2000 travel bursary with which to conduct her research.

The feature focused on water conservation and management in Seychelles and the Maldives with special attention to the effects of climate change and population growth. The segment she submitted to SADC was an over arching look at both countries and the desalination technology that was taking over, particularly in the Maldives, they sustained a lot of damage in the 2005 tsunami and where they no longer have access to groundwater.

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