The heart of our work is providing direct financial and practical support to freelance journalists and their families globally.


How We Help
Our assistance grants have had an enormous impact on the lives of freelance journalists working around the world. Watch the video below to hear from a few of the freelancers we have recently supported – and how our support helped them.
Who We’ve Helped
Since the launch of the Trust in 1995, we’ve given assistance grants to over 2700 freelance journalists to help them at critical moments in their lives – see below for some of their stories.
Matthew Caruana Galizia
Journalist / Malta

Ibrahim al Shamaly
Photojournalist, cameraman and documentary maker/ Syria

Samar Abu Elouf
Photojournalist /Palestine

Hale Gönültaş
Documentary filmmaker /Turkey

Somaya Abdelrahman
Photojournalist / Egypt

Mustafa Dahnon
Photojournalist & TV Reporter / Syria

Onen Walter Solomon
Reporter / South Sudan

Mary Mwendwa
Journalist & editor / Kenya

Riana Randrianarisoa
Videojournalist / Madagascar

Umutoniwase Aimelyne
Freelance journalist / Rwanda

Hamza Abbas
Photojournalist / Syria

Sahar Zand
Reporter & Documentary maker / UK

Nyasha Kadandara
Journalist & Documentary filmmaker / Kenya

Achref Chibani
Journalist / Tunisia

Elita Yopla
Journalist / Peru

Gildo Gazar
Investigative journalist / Mexico

Sharon Kiburi
Data journalist / Kenya

Bernice Maune
Freelance journalist /South Africa

Kelechukwu Iruoma
Journalist / Nigeria

Yauheniya Burshtyn
Journalist / Belarus

Estacio Valoi
Journalist & photographer / Mozambique

Eman Helal
Documentary photographer / Egypt

Bellancile Nininahazwe
Radio journalist / Burundi

Sim Chi Yin
Photojournalist, Singapore

Jovo Martinovic
Investigative journalist / Montenegro

Muhammad Zubair
Multimedia Journalist / Pakistan

Baraa Al Halabi
Photojournalist / Syria

Mujtaba Jalali
Photojournalist / Afghanistan

Khadija Ismayilova
Investigative journalist & Radio host / Azerbaijan

Family of Mehmood Khan

Rehana Esmail
Print reporter & video journalist / USA

Family of Rebecca Vassie

Camille Lavoix
Journalist / Argentina

Family of Cecilio Pineda

Claudia Julieta Duque
Journalist / Colombia

Mohammed Lagha
Journalist / Libya

Barbara Kavugho Kamwira
Journalist / Kenya

Nabil Subaye
Journalist / Yemen

Gaius Vagheni Kowene
Multimedia journalist / DR Congo

Gulnur Kazimova
Journalist / Azerbaijan

Hasan Husain Qamber Yusuf
Journalist / Lebanon

Junpei Yasuda
Journalist / Japan

Ezzat Mustafa Mohammed Ahmed
Journalist / Yemen

Hussein Mohamed Hussein
Radio journalist / Somailia

Lucy Kafanov
Journalist / Turkey

Al-Migdad Mojalli
Journalist / Yemen

Victoria Ivleva-Yorke
Photojournalist / Russia

Umida Akhmedova
Photojournalist / Uzbekistan

Kateryna Malofieieva
Producer / Ukraine

Chandler Vandergrift
Photojournalist / Thailand

Indalecio Benitez
Radio journalist / Mexico

Kholoud Helm
Journalist / Syria

Gulbahor Turaeva
Journalist / Uzbekistan

Milana Mazaeva
Journalist / Chechnya

João Pino
Photojournalist / Portugal

Tracie Williams
Photojournalist / USA

Bile Beshir Mahbub
Journalist / Somalia
