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Sander Thoenes Award

Giving young reporters a chance

By Laura Dixon, 2007 Sander Thoenes Prize winner

Published: March 6 2008 15:12 | Last updated: March 6 2008 15:12

One of the highlights of my time as a Sander Thoenes intern was meeting a group of women setting up their own micro-businesses in one of the sprawling suburbs of Mexico City. A group of 20 women from the barrio told us about setting up a business making clothes and selling food, and how they worked together to pay back their shared loan.

This is what the Sander Thoenes prize is about—giving young reporters a chance to work in the main newsroom in London but also to travel and to write.

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