Welcome
The AFP Foundation exists in the belief that free, independent and responsible media can help people make informed decisions about their lives and thus help reduce poverty, promote development and defend human rights. The Foundation will seek, through the training it provides, to raise journalists' professional standards in accordance with its code of conduct, and to promote press freedom.
The philosophy underlying our work is that those who benefit from training should be able to pass on what they have learned to their colleagues and to younger generations. We see it as part of our mission to teach those who may become tomorrow's teachers.
Kate webb Award
The 2009 Kate Webb Award has gone to the Philippine Center For Investigative Journalism for its fearless work in the deadliest country for reporters.
morePhoto Contest
For the second year running, the AFP Foundation is co-sponsoring an international photo contest in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Olympus Corporation. The contest, titled Picture This: We Can End Poverty, will illustrate inspirational work that is being done in many countries to achieve the Millennium Development Goals : eight goals agreed on by world leaders in 2000 to halve extreme poverty by 2015.
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Second round of World Cup 2010 media training
The Foundation's programme to train more than 300 African football journalists resumed on December 5, a day after the 2010 FIFA World Cup draw was made in host country South Africa.
next...Beirut workshop promotes objective war reporting
The United Nations Development Programme commissioned the AFP Foundation to run a four-day workshop on objective war reporting in Beirut in November 2008.
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