Refugee Camp and Carol Sanders

Carol Sanders: Press reporter Carol Sander stories on life in a Kenyan refugee camp have won a 2014 Amnesty International Canada Media Award, a distinction that recognizes outstanding reporting about human rights issues. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. The project began after Sanders met immigrants in Winnipeg who had been sponsored as refugees. Seeing the problems immigrants face hit close to home, and Sanders pitched a trip to Kenya to her editors. Carol Sanders left with the elected chairwoman of a refugee camp in Dadaab, Kenya, Asmina Isnina Ali. Sanders won for her series of articles on refugee camps in Dadaab, Kenya. The series, called Nowhere to go: Life in Dadaab , shed light on the world largest refugee camp and its connection to Winnipeg immigrants. It ran in the Free Press in June. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.