Monday, May 2, 2022 –Violet Auma, health reporter with Tv 47, has won Global AFP Awards 2021 held in Ukunda, Kwale County.
Disclosing the news to the media, Ms Auma confirmed that she had emerged top in her family planning series Tv category and first runners up overall.
“2nd runners up overall award. Kisunzi cha Upangaji Uzazi, story aired on Tv 47 highlighting challenges of women in access to FP services,” she reacted.
The elated reporter took the opportunity to thank Almighty God and her current station Tv 47 terming the win as not hers but theirs.
“God has done it again. My win is TV47’s win. Actually it’s our win. 1st place Tv category award.
“The story that gave me the best in the TV category, ‘ Kisunzi cha Upangaji Uzazi’. A story that shows how women are bound with cultural beliefs and traditions that hinders them in accessing modern family planning services,” she told a publication.
The reporter with her fellow winners were offered mentors who will support their career in sourcing stories and doing research.
She narrated how she managed to make it to the top and how she weaved the story that caught every ones’ attention.
“A story told among the Banyala community of Navakholo, Kakamega County that believe siring many children is a sign of wealth and women should give birth to as many children as possible.
“Last year I was in the second position Tv category with my story, Wasichana Wapanga Uzazi, a story of how young girls who opted to use contraceptives with some without knowledge of their parents to prevent teenage pregnancy,” she noted.
On the same note, NTV’s Eunice Amollo and DW’s Thelma Mwadzaya also scooped second and third places respectively in the same (health) category.
Auma graduated in Journalism and Mass Communication and her love for human interest stories saw her absorbed by Citizen Tv where she served in Western Region for some years before joining Tv 47.