POYi 62 Winners List | Winners Gallery | Judges History | Archive | Endowment | Sponsors | News | Contact   
POYi.org
  Wiinners Gallery | World Understanding Award | Award of Excellence
 

Award of Excellence
Francine Orr Los Angeles Times
"Dollar-A-Day"





37 of 40

Rita Achieng (CQ), 27, spends her days lying in the darkness of her one room shack, in a Kenyan slum. She said she was 'waiting for death to come.' She refused anti-retroviral treatment, and died three weeks later.
 

 

POYi 62 Winners List | Winners Gallery | Judges

Home | History | Archive | Endowment | Sponsors | News | Contact