"Sunflower" Has A Main Prize For This Year

"SUNFLOWER" HAS A MAIN PRIZE FOR THIS YEAR

Aysor
Dec 4 2009
Armenia

The result of the annual 7th competition of "Sunflower" titled "Equal
rights" that concerns people with disabilities will be summed up on
December 5 in Golden Tulip hotel, informed Zaruhi Batoyan, the editor
of "Sunflower" (Arevatsaghik) journal to Aysor.am.

The competition is organized and realized by the "Bridge of Hope",
"Mission to East" organizations and the Ministry of Labor and Social
Affairs of Armenia. 21 published articles have been presented for
participating in the competition, 2 radio and 10 TV articles that have
been broadcast or published since November 20, 2008 up to November
20, 2009.

"The presented works have been studied by the commission, in the number
of which where the chairman of the "Bridge of Hope" organization,
experts from MEDIA sphere and the journalists who have become the
winners of the previous year.

This year the nominations are the following "The best TV article",
"The best radio reportage", and "The best published article" for
the first, second and third places as well as for the Main prize the
winner of which will get a "Note book".

"It mainly depends on what kind of articles are presented as we have
had cases when the main prize didn’t go to anyone at all as there have
not been an article deserving it", – Z. Batoyan informed and stressed
that after three years of pause the main prize will be find its winner.

Z. Batoyan also stated that there are concrete principles for choosing
the materials presented at the competition. The main principle is
to see whether the problem of disability is touched upon in the
material, whether there are examples of overcoming them, whether it
is elucidated from the point of view of the human rights and some
other professional skills.