New Delhi: The Wire‘s special initiative focused on manual scavenging and sanitation, #GRIT, has won the India Sanitation Coalition (ISC)-FICCI award for ‘Best Communication in Sanitation’.
At the award function on Monday, ISC CEO Lakshmi Sampath Goyal highlighted how under #GRIT, The Wire has published close to 100 articles focusing on different issues related to sanitation.
The FICCI-ISC awards were launched in 2017, seeking to “advance [the ISC’s] mandate to share knowledge and expertise, showcase forward-thinking best practices and promote partnerships across the sector in order to achieve a sustainable sanitation ecosystem”.
Read the articles published under #GRIT here.
WIN News got a special mention in the category for its video coverage of sanitation.
#GRIT was launched in May 2018, dedicated to the coverage of manual scavenging and sanitation and their linkages with caste, gender, policy and apathy. It has covered topics ranging from the daily lives of manual scavengers and the
discrimination and dangers they face, to the implementation of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, the technologies that have been developed that have the potential to do away with manual scavenging, the government’s survey to count manual scavengers, and much more.
Launched in collaboration with the International Centre for Journalists, #GRIT is now a standalone initiative.
To submit an article or pitch to #GRIT, write to jahnavi@cms.thewire.in