Good Fortune was recently awarded the Overseas Press Club’s Carl Spielvogel Award for “best international reporting in the broadcast media showing concern for the human condition.”
The Overseas Press Club of America has been serving the interests of international journalists since 1939. Each year they recognize outstanding journalistic work with the OPC Awards. Here’s what they had to say about Good Fortune:
“Good Fortune is an insightful look at the everyday life of average people in Kenya, presented against the backdrop of globalization and western notions of progress. It is compelling, breathtaking, moving, and it challenges conventional wisdom about what people in poor countries need from the world outside their own. It allows one woman to be representative of a culture, and treats her eloquent criticism of the failures of international aid in Africa with the kind of respect normally reserved for the suppliers of that aid.”
http://opcofamerica.org/awards/carl-spielvogel-award-2010
