By Lily Hindy | Deputy Director
As journalists covering Ukraine continue to face attacks, detention, and abduction, RISC is heading to the region to offer a battlefield medical response course in Kosovo on July 28-31. Kosovo's centrality makes it a convenient location not just for the many photographers, print reporters and broadcast journalists covering the big story in Ukraine, but for freelance journalists based throughout Europe and the Middle East. Many of these journalists have been unable to cover the costs of traveling to New York City for our courses. The four-day course in Gjakova, Kosovo, will be led by the original RISC training team from Wilderness Medical Associates: U.S. combat medic Sawyer Alberi, WMA Executive Director and emergency physician Dr. David Johnson, and travel medicine and risk specialist Bill Frederick. As always, each of our graduates will receive a RISC medical kit to take with them back into the field.
We kicked off the second season of our benefit speaker series, War Correspondents at the Brooklyn Brewery, on May 22 with NPR's Middle East correspondent Deborah Amos. Scott Anderson takes the stage next on June 17. For a full list of the speakers and dates, click here.
RISC is proud to announce that National Geographic Television, one of our original corporate donors, became a continuing sponsor this spring with a pledge of $25,000 to be donated over the next five years. Our other sustaining corporate donors are ABC News and NBC News. We are grateful to all of our corporate sponsors, as well as individual donors, for your support as we enter our third year of operations. For more information about where our money comes from, and where it goes, please check out our 2013 annual report.
Our next course is scheduled for October 4-7 in Nairobi, Kenya. Please consider making a donation to help us make that RISC training available to journalists covering conflicts in Central African Republic, Congo, Nigeria, and other parts of Africa. Thank you and have a wonderful summer!
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