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Katya Mira Communications

Examples of work

I have written, edited, and provided copy and quotes for hundreds (thousands?) of news stories, blogs and features over the past two decades, along with organising and setting up interviews for similar quantities of TV and radio broadcasts. Some examples are below:

BBC World Service - Health Check. Breaking breaking down the stigma around wearing glasses in Pakistan. (16 mins 27 seconds in).
This radio report featured Sightsavers' eye health programmes in Pakistan, which addressed the stigma associated with girls wearing glasses.

Times Education Supplement: For Maureen Mwinga, ‘education comes second to keeping pupils healthy'.
Coverage achieved for schools' programme to combat disease in Zambia

Reuters: Tackling river blindness in a country ravaged by Ebola
A story of resilience in the most challenging of times.

CNN: Hope in sight: Ending the infection that scrapes eyes blind
Coverage achieved after Ghana became the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to eliminate blinding trachoma.

BBC Africa films first trachoma operations in Benin
A team from ‘La Vie’, BBC Africa’s French-language health programme, followed the story of two women from Benin as they had surgery for blinding trachoma. Link no longer available.

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