Olga's Girls a Finalist for the Harry Chapin Media Awards

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Every January, 83-year-old Olga Murray of northern California goes to southwestern Nepal for the...

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Media file: 001-Nepal-Olga-Murray.jpg — Olga Murray (right) speaks with several of the students at J and K House, the boys and girls schools she started for needy children in Kathmandu, Nepal. Her philanthropic endeavors have spanned over two decades for the poor and infirm, and for the past 10 years, her Nepalese Youth Opportunity Foundation has rescued over 4,300 girls from domestic slavery. Image by Carlos Avila Gonzalez. Nepal, 2009.

"Olga's Girls," Meredith May's piece for the San Francisco Chronicle, is a finalist for the Harry Chapin Media Awards. The finalists were chosen as being representative of the best coverage of hunger and poverty issues this year.

The winners will be chosen by an independent panel of judges, all highly respected journalists and/or experts and advocates in the fields of hunger and poverty. The judging event is scheduled for mid-June. The winners will be announced and all entrants notified of the decisions immediately thereafter.

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February 8, 2009

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