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Media Release 

25 November  

Isu Elihle Awards winners!

JOHANNESBURG, 25 November Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) and UNICEF announced the  lsu Elihle Awards winner on Thursday 25 November Isu Elihle is an isiZulu phrase that means a &#;Great Idea&#; when translated to English, these Awards were launched in and has been running for five years. Over a hundred applications were received from nineteen African countries which shows a huge growth. These Awards aim to encourage fresh reporting, innovative approaches and insightful investigations that seek to give children a voice and elevate the status of the child all over Africa. In the past two years, the awards were open only for journalists in the Eastern and Southern Africa but from , journalists from all over Africa were included. 

We are excited to announce this year’s winners: 1st prize and overall winner of the Awards goes to Dorcas Wangira who is an early career journalist based in Kenya, she is passionate about science and human-interest features. She recently started working for BBC. Dorcas is awarded for her two-part series coverage on children titled, &#;Born in prison”. She receives a cash prize of ZAR25 after being ranked the overall winner by a panel of judges who are media practitioners. The judges commented on her reporting by saying, &#;Excellent series, a lot of time and effort was taken to present the issue comprehensively and from all angles. I love the inclusion of things like the drawings of children whose mothers were in prison and their memories of time there. The Journalist engaged the issues with sensitivity, and you never got an impression of secondary trauma to the children involved. The stories were comprehensive and gave the reader a full picture. The article was very clear at drawing the two video reports together and then packaging the whole series together in a way that was comprehensive and showed the legal and ethical challenges, held the powerful accountable and presented options for the future. Very well done”. Read her story here

The second prize of ZAR15 goes to Robyn Wolfson Vorster for her four-part series published in the Daily Maverick, it talks about the untold stories of missing children in South Africa. Robyn focuses on writing and advocating for changes in legislation and policy regarding children and giving vulnerable children a voice. The judges commented on her story saying, &#;This is a thorough exploration of the issues that used beautiful imagery and personal accounts to highlight the issues surrounding missing children in South Africa. Despite the challenges in accessing these children, the journalist was creative in her approach and ensured that although often &#;voiceless&#; these children were presented as the focus. She also accessed other children about their opinions, giving them the ability to fully participate in the conversation about issues that affect them”. Vorster is also the winner of the The Isu Elihle Mandy Rossouw Accountability Category which is awarded to a journalist who show remarkable bravery towards holding governments and relevant institutions accountable to ensure that the rights of children on the continent are met. She receives an additional R10 Read the story here.

The 3rd prize of ZAR10 goes to Caroline Ayugi for her two-part series about how the education department’s limited digital tools slow down learners with visual impairment. Her article is titled, UGANDA: Education system, limited digital tools slow down persons with visual impairment. Her experience in working as an online content producer for Oysters & Pearls-Uganda, a charity that Cultivates Education and Technology and among the visually impaired for the past three years has helped her to identify and write more underreported stories about the challenges Persons with Disabilities in Uganda face. The judges commented on her reporting saying, “This is an interesting and engaging article. While a lot has been written about Covid&#;s impact on the education system, the experiences and lived realities of children with disabilities, especially in rural and technologically disadvantaged districts, is largely under-represented. It was refreshing to hear from these children as individuals with agency instead of seeing them lumped into a homogenous grouping. Read the story here.

The  application date will be announced early next year, we call upon journalists from all over Africa to enter the awards. Congratulations to all the winners!

For further information, please contact:

Girlie Sibanda, Project Coordinator

[email protected];

When the tooth decay goes from bad to worse, a normal filling is no longer good enough to resolve the issue. A bacterial infection can spread deeper into the tooth to affect the pulp tissue, so that putting a dental filling will only make matters worst. To relieve the patient of the pain and discomfort either the tooth will have to be extracted or a root canal should be performed.

A root canal procedure will remove the pulp tissue from the tooth, this will immediately relieve the patient of the pain because the diseased pulp will be removed, but it will allow the preservation of the tooth in the mouth. You do not have to get a tooth extraction. You do not have to get dentures to replace a lost tooth. You can salvage the tooth and preserve it in the mouth with a root canal procedure.

Root canals are fairly routine procedures performed by the dentist. It may be done by a general practitioner or an endodontic specialist; either way, you deal with the painful toothache.

Preparing for the Root Canal

If you are scheduled to have a root canal anytime soon, it is going to be useful for you to know the following:

• Root canal procedures are tedious and can be quite long. A typical procedure can involve multiple appointments. When the canals are not located and completely enlarged, a second or third appointment may be required, but at times a single-appointment root canal treatment procedure may be possible.

• Expect your appointment to be lengthy. Often the dentist keeps the patient for as long as three hours so make sure to have a meal before you get in. This will make you more comfortable not have to worry about an empty stomach while in the middle of the procedure.

• Ideally, the anesthetic solution should be able to numb the tooth, but in some cases, complete anesthesia may not be possible so you will feel some sensitivity at least until the entire pulp has been removed. After which, you will feel much relief and the pain will be gone.

• It will be helpful if you dose with painkillers and to start with your antibiotics, if prescribed before the procedure. The painkillers will help reduce any possible pain symptom during the procedure and the antibiotics will deal with the swelling caused by any abscess located periapically.

Caring for Yourself after the Root Canal

After getting a root canal, there are some things that you have to know as well:

• Your tooth may been traumatized by the procedure so you can expect some tenderness or dull pressure pain on the tooth. Be aware that this pain will only be temporary. It will all be well eventually.

• Take all the prescribed medications as ordered. The medicines are prescribed to you for a reason so you need to be responsible enough to follow the prescription closely.

• Your root canal treated tooth is not longer vital. The nerve and blood supply has been extirpated so it is no longer receiving nourishment from the body. This will make the tooth brittle compared to a healthy tooth so be aware not to subject it to too much force if you so not want it to fracture.

En la nota de hoy, vamos a tratar el tema de las heladas, algo muy importante para esta época.

La formación de cristales de hielo en el tejido vegetal también puede producir daños importantes.
Las bajas temperaturas del invierno pueden dañar las plantas, sobre todo las que se quedan en el exterior de la vivienda. De hecho, cuando las temperaturas bajan demasiado el principal peligro no son las ramas o las hojas ya que estas suelen crecer de nuevo con la llegada de la primavera sino las raíces, que es la parte más sensible de la planta y, una vez dañada, es difícil que se pueda recuperar.

Tres consejos para cuidar tus plantas en invierno

👉🏾 Disminuir el riego. Cuando las temperaturas bajan demasiado el agua se congela, lo cual afecta las raíces de la planta. De hecho, ¿sabías que la filtración y el congelamiento del agua bajo la superficie afecta más a las plantas que las heladas nocturnas? Por eso, es conveniente que durante el invierno riegues menos.

👉🏾 Cubrir las plantas. El plástico de burbujas que normalmente se utiliza para proteger los objetos frágiles también es ideal para proteger las plantas. De hecho, este material no solo protege sino que también es aislante. En cualquier caso, durante el día debes retirar el plástico para evitar que la planta se asfixie. También debes tener cuidado de que el plástico no dañe las hojas y los tallos, por lo que es preferible colocarlo sobre unas estacas altas que lo sostengan.

👉🏾 Agrupar las plantas. Si las temperaturas bajan mucho o las plantas son muy delicadas, es conveniente agruparlas en un mismo lugar, para poder cubrirlas con mayor facilidad. Puedes colocarlas junto a una pared, formando dos o tres filas y colocando las plantas más altas al final.

🙌🏾 ¿ Y vos? ¿Que otros metodos utilizas para cuidar tus plantas en invierno?

Contanos abajo! Te leemos !!