CTV Atlantic reporter Kayla Hounsell filmed a documentary in Africa about the Ebola crisis in Liberia. The W5 documentary will air Saturday, Nov. 5, 2016 at 7 p.m. on CTV.
Kayla was awarded an International Development Reporting Fellowship by the Aga Khan Foundation Canada and the Canadian Association of Journalists. The fellowship encourages journalists to push the boundaries of daily foreign coverage.
Kayla’s proposal took her and CTV Atlantic videographer, George Reeves, to Liberia. Together they produced a documentary for CTV’s W5 on the aftermath of Ebola in the West African nation, which lost nearly 5,000 people - more than any other country – to the deadly virus.
This was Kayla’s third trip to Africa. Last year she travelled to war-torn South Sudan as part of CTV’s partnership with Journalists for Human Rights, a media development organization. She lived in Juba, South Sudan’s capital city for one month, working one-on-one with local television journalists and conducting workshops on journalism and human rights reporting.
In 2006, when she was a student at Ottawa’s Carleton University, Kayla spent two months in Rwanda, helping train journalism students in a country devastated by genocide.
“I applied for this fellowship because I want to tell international stories that can change the way Canadians think,” said Kayla. “I am so grateful to AKFC, the CAJ, and CTV for supporting this incredible project.”
Click here to learn more about Kayla's project in Liberia.
