Fellows & Editors
Emily-Ann Elliott
- Trip:
- Zambia 2013
- Affiliation:
- Freelance
- Country:
- Zambia
- Year:
- 2013
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Emily-Ann Elliott is a freelance journalist based in the UK. She has worked on a number of regional newspapers, specializing in health and education. In October 2011, she took a career break and travelled the world for nine months, completing 30 challenges before she turned 30. She has written on the political situation in Burma/Myanmar, orphanages in China and the changing face of South Africa. During her trip, she developed an interest in social media and the way it can be used to reach different audiences. After returning to the UK, she founded The Grown-up Gap Year to offer advice and support to people who are considering taking a career break or a sabbatical. She has continued to pursue her interest in social media and regularly uses tools such as Twitter and Facebook to tell her stories, as well as to promote the work of a deaf school in China which she supports. She has a BA Hons degree in English Literature from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Stories
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Back to school in Zambia
Reading The White Masai for #travelbookclub brought back lots of memories of my trips to Africa last year and I spent some time looking through my photos from South Africa and Zambia....
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Reel to Real: Zambian TV Show Inspires Sex Education Scheme for Deaf People
Amos Simbeye grew up in a world of silence. Until he began attending a school for deaf children in Lusaka, Zambia, he had limited ways of communicating and few opportunities to...
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Lesson Learnt: I’ll Never Make it as a Teacher in a Zambian School
I think anyone who knows me would say that I am a pretty loud person. A question I regularly get asked by my friends is: “How are you so small and...
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The Challenge of HIV and TB Co-Infection
HIV and TB co-infection is now a major area of concern in countries like Zambia. People living with HIV, who have impaired immune systems, are particularly vulnerable to the lung disease TB....
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Changing Lives on the Streets of Lusaka
Sometimes when you’re out reporting in the field it’s easy to become a bit cynical. When all of the facts and figures are thrown at you and you...
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A Flavour of Zambia
A trip wouldn’t be a trip without me banging on about the food and yesterday, during a break from reporting, I got the chance to sample a traditional Zambian meal. ...
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Empowering Women in the Fight Against HIV
“We are like a person on a dark night, hunting frantically for a lost key under a light. Not because that is where the key was lost, but because that is...
Blog Posts RSS
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August 27, 2013 | by Elliott, Emily-Ann
Five Things I Love About Zambia
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May 16, 2013 | by Elliott, Emily-Ann
BIG NEWS: I’M GOING TO ZAMBIA
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