Lim, Badayos of SunStar win 2 nat’l journalism awards

CEBU - Sun.Star Cebu journalists Cherry Ann T. Lim and Alex Badayos won two of five prizes at stake in the Save the Children Media Awards 2017 held at the Silver Lotus Events Place in Quezon City last Tuesday night. Managing editor Lim won the Most Outstanding Article award for “Wasted Children,” a special report that examined, among others, which towns in Cebu needed help in dealing with malnutrition.

In six Cebu towns, six to nearly 10 percent of all children under five years old were too thin for their height. SunStar Cebu published the three-part special report last July.

Badayos, who is SunStar Cebu and Super Balita’s chief photographer, won the prize for Most Outstanding Photograph. “Food for Tot” is a black-and-white image of a child eating a bowl of porridge.

Award-giving body Save the Children Philippines works with the global Save the Children movement that operates in at least 120 countries. “Save the Children believes that all children have the right to fair and equal access to nutritious food. We know that the rate of stunting of 33 percent is largely due to inequality of access to nutritious food, long periods of hunger, and a lack of nutrition during the first 1,000 days,” the group said in a statement.

In 2015, Save the Children launched the Lahat Dapat Campaign to raise public awareness on child hunger and malnutrition in the Philippines.