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Pulitzer Center Update September 21, 2009

Meredith May Receives Excellence in Journalism Award

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Nepal: Olga's Girls

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

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Hundreds of former kamlaris, or domestic slaves, gather in Ghorahi, Nepal, during the Maghe Sankranti festival to protest against the kamlari practice. Image by Carlos Avila Gonzalez. Nepal, 2009.

Meredith May received a 2009 Excellence in Journalism Award in the feature writing category from the Society for Professional Journalists for "Saving Nepal's Indentured Girls," which SPJ described as "a story that uses an inspiring local angle to illuminate the international human rights issue of kamlari, the Nepalese practice of bonded servitude."

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