Prior to the training which is currently held in Helsinki
(organised by VIKES, @vikesverkko), we – European House and Lithuanian NGDO Platform- gathered together with our project's journalists from Lithuania for introductory
meeting.
Journalists from our media partners - LRT, 15min.lt, lzinios.lt, vz.lt - introduced themselves to
each other and our team of organisers did so as well. In Lithuania people very
often know about each other, so it was no surprise many of us knew each other
from before.
However, these short personal introductions revealed very
good news - that the journalists are genuinely interested in development.
Someone of them already have been to the trainings (Like of Minority RightsGroup), someone focus on gender equality issue and small and medium
enterprises, someone have studied or worked in developing country, someone’s
topic is sustainable development and etc.
We, development NGOs' practitioners, were glad to share
Lithuanian NGO perspective as well as our knowledge on what is going on in
development policies. For a while we discussed an issue of stereotypes in the
media, negative news and tendency to victimize people of developing countries.
Obviously, the project is very needed and timely.
The most interesting and challenging part was an attempt to
define what countries to choose for the trips and sharing the ideas of topics
and stories that could be told. The question was still left open.
Inspired we agreed to meet again
after the training in Helsinki and to establish tradition of project's participants monthly working breakfast.
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