CHOLERA DIARY has won the Gracie Allen Award presented by the Foundation of American Women in Radio and Television. Judges called the documentary "superior" and said that it "effectively portrays the changing roles and concerns of women." The award was presented at the 25th Annual Gracie Allen Awards Gala at the Hudson Theatre on Broadway, in New York City April 17, 2000.
They are the "smoke jumpers" among international aid organisations. While others are often stymied or delayed by bureaucratic red tape, the men and women of Doctors Without Borders /Medecins Sans Frontieres move in. They provide food and clean water, dig latrines, set up first-aid stations and field hospitals, and treat all-comers according to need. Often they are the last to remain in situations abandoned by others as too dangerous.
Last year 2500 volunteers served in MSF's emergency missions in 84 countries.
This is the personal diary of one of them.
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The Savvy Traveler Cholera Diary in RealAudio (mono)
This is the 2nd year in a row that we have won this Special Commendation
Mucho Corazon was part of the Homelands Productions World Views series and was initially broadcast by Radio Netherlands and This American Life in the United States. A 52-minute feature-length version aired in Canada on CBC Radio's Ideas in February 2000. It has also been heard in Australia on ABC's Radio Eye series, and on RTE's Documentary on One in Ireland
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