Gabriella Jozwiak

Freelance Journalism Awards 2025 Shortlist! Let's see who our finalists are

Chuffed to hear I’m shortlisted for the @freelancingfor.bsky.social Best Specialist Journalist Award, for covering global development. It recognises articles in @devex.com @equaltimes.bsky.social & BBC Future Planet. Good luck to all finalists! freelancingforjournalists.substack.com/p/freelance-...

I’m looking forward to reading this. Thanks for the recommendation @colinfreeman99.bsky.social ! And to my favourite independent @allgoodbookshop.co.uk for supplying the goods.

Gabriella's Sierra Leone Marathon Fundraiser for Street Child Help Gabriella Jozwiak raise money to support Street Child

Personal news… I’m running a marathon to help children in Sierra Leone go to school! Just £4 can pay for a child’s education for a whole month, each month they stay is life-changing. Aid cuts mean support is needed more than ever. Pls chuck me a few ££! www.justgiving.com/page/gabriel...

Silence is survival in Haiti In Haiti, fear and funding cuts have left many without a voice. Silence isn’t a choice—it’s a means of survival.

Thank you Haitian Times for republishing this piece by @gabriellajoz.bsky.social first published in our mag issue, Land of the Free? The article looks at how cuts to #USAID funding have left #Haiti activists, journalists & vulnerable communities voiceless:
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The #Trump administration's drastic cuts to #USAID are massively impacting human rights and media organisations in #Haiti - a country already on the brink. In our latest magazine issue, journalist @gabriellajoz.bsky.social reports on the real-world impact:
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'Daddy has to use tough language' - NATO chief woos Trump after Israel-Iran ceasefire Podcast Episode · Ukraine: The Latest · 25/06/2025 · 1h 6m

Great to be back on the @telegraphnews.bsky.social Ukraine: The Latest podcast yesterday with @adeliepjz.bsky.social and Dom Nicholls. I talked about how the war continues to harm education and is encouraging youth migration among boys - and girls. Please listen podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/u...

Ukraine has a problem no one is talking about – young women are leaving in droves Locked in a costly war of attrition against Russia, there are concerns over how the country will rebuild after the fighting stops

Ukraine has a problem no one is talking about – young women are leaving in droves - my latest for @telglobalhealth.bsky.social www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

My latest piece for @devex.com - what global education practitioners told me needs to happen next to survive massive budget cuts

As education funding crumbles, the sector must ‘get its house in order’ As education funding crumbles, the sector must ‘get its house in order’

As budget cuts threaten global education, it’s less about “who will step up,” and more about “how must the sector adapt.”

As education funding crumbles, the sector must ‘get its house in order’ As budget cuts threaten global education, it’s less about “who will step up,” and more about “how must the sector adapt.”

Education is a long-term solution to so many expensive, societal problems governments worldwide are trying to fix. Plenty of research proves this. Yet globally education aid is under attack. Solving that is going to be really long-term. My analysis for @devex.com www.devex.com/news/as-educ...

Open Letter on Gaza by Journalists to the Prime Minister Open letter by Amnesty International UK and British journalists urging the Prime Minister to protect Palestinian journalists and uphold media freedom amid escalating violence and killings in Gaza.

Just signed this: Dear PM... Take urgent and meaningful steps to prevent Israel’s genocidal acts against Palestinians in Gaza www.amnesty.org.uk/journalist-o...

This was a very moving moment at the #AmnestyMediaAwards last night. From miles away, with an injured hand, Wael talked through a laptop camera to a room of journalists looking for a way to answer his call. Then we stood for a minute of silence to remember more than 230 journalists killed in Gaza.

TONIGHT! Join us at The Frontline Club for a panel discussion and magazine launch on the unspoken impact of war on psychological trauma. With a focus on #Ukraine and #Gaza. Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/index-on-c... @gabriellajoz.bsky.social

EVENT: Join us at Frontline Club this Monday to explore the psychological toll of life in a warzone and how it affects survivors’ ability to speak, especially children. The discussion focuses on the conflicts in #Gaza & #Ukraine: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/index-on-c... @gabriellajoz.bsky.social

Next Monday night I'll be joining a great line up of speakers for an @indexoncensorship.org panel at the Frontline Club, London to discuss a subject that is fascinating, but also a real and urgent issue impacting people right now that needs more attention. Please come along!

How two nurseries in Ukraine are thriving against the odds - Nursery World More than two years since she visited nurseries in Ukraine, Gabriella Jozwiak returned to find how one kindergarten owner had built ‘a dream nursery’ despite the conflict, while another had received a...

Air-tight windows in nursery buildings in case of a nuclear attack, and toddlers playing 'catch the draft-dodger'. What early years education looks like in Ukraine after three years of full-scale war www.nurseryworld.co.uk/content/feat...

Desperate hunger in Tigray pushes thousands into the hands of kidnappers and people smugglers After a catastrophic two-year military operation brought the region to its knees, many Tigrayan youths have lost all hope of a future

So grateful my report for @telglobalhealth.bsky.social on how war and drought are forcing young people to migrate from Tigray has been shortlisted for an @amnestyuk.bsky.social Media Award. V timely as the situation there continues to worsen and needs attention www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Join the MORE BALL GAMES Movement – Reclaim Physical Activity, Movement and Play 🏀⚽ Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

‘No Ball Games’ signs should totally be scrapped! Children have a right to play and should be encouraged and given this freedom in every city. Sign the petition! chng.it/p6ZnP7y6n8

DOGE takes over US African Development Foundation After USADF declined to provide staff from the Department of Government Efficiency access to their systems, the budget-slashing team seems to have gotten in anyway.

"The power went out on floors seven to 12 of the building, and media were barred from accessing the sole elevator still in working order" THIS IS CRAZY. Trump administration continues to destroy global aid by taking over the US African Development Foundation www.devex.com/news/doge-ta...

Exclusive: Trump plans to revoke legal status of Ukrainians who fled to US, sources say U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is planning to revoke temporary legal status for some 240,000 Ukrainians who fled the conflict with Russia, a senior Trump official and three sources familiar with the matter said, potentially putting them on a fast-track to deportation.

It was only a matter of time #Ukraine www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Trump put a 13-year-old in the Secret Service. How do you top that? This was the longest presidential address to a joint Congress in history — and it was not short on theatrics or surprises

I loved this from @willpavia.bsky.social - great writing. “Musk was there… bowing his great square head like a seal trying to catch a ball on its nose.” www.thetimes.com/article/f3ff...

Lech Wałęsa expresses ‘horror and distaste’ at Trump’s treatment of Zelenskyy Ex-Polish leader, who won Nobel prize for pro-democracy efforts, compares meeting to a communist interrogation

Good on Wałęsa for taking action on this and telling Trump he’s acting like a communist. Sadly I doubt Trump has any idea who his is or what you have to do to win a peace prize #Ukraine www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Serbian MPs set off flares and smoke grenades inside parliament Injuries reported as opposition MPs disrupt session in show of support for anti-corruption protests

Meanwhile in Serbia... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Fear, pain and hunger: The dire impact of U.S. funding cuts in Africa Across Africa, the policies of the Trump administration are already having profound consequences for some of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people.

Great piece in @washingtonpost.com on how the USAID stop to work order is impacting African countries. Check the excellent graphic showing the depth of US donor funding around the globe www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Trump’s order to immediately halt globally all work funded by USAID for 90 days has forced Ukrainians supporting war affected communities to search for alternative funding, at a stage of the war where support it already in decline www.devex.com/news/what-lo...

Exclusive: State Department issues stop-work order on US aid The executive order puts a pause on new foreign aid spending, as well as a stop-work order for existing grants and contracts.

Worring is no longer an appropriate word: www.devex.com/news/exclusi...

Serious obstacles are preventing Tigray's IDPs from going home and getting back to work For four years Ashebu Haguzum, 45, has been waiting. When war broke out in the northernmost Ethiopian region of Tigray in 2020, he and his family fled 300 kilometres from their home in Mai Kadra, near...

The war in Tigray, Ethiopia ended in 2022, but 1.5m people still haven't been able to go back home or to their jobs. What is being done to help them? Me for @equaltimes.bsky.social
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A Ukrainian boy's miraculous journey and what is says about the nation's spirit A Russian bomb fell on the house where 12 year old Stas had been sleeping – he survived because the bomb failed to detonate

Doctors in Ukraine have urgently upskilled since the full scale invasion, to save children with horrendous injuries. It was such a privilege to meet these determined professionals working with UNBROKEN and one of their patients, the warm and somehow hopeful Stas inews.co.uk/news/world/m...

Family of teacher who died on Ukraine front line faces first Christmas without her Nursery teacher Natalia, 35, voluntarily joined the army and died in action, leaving her teenage son and sister alone this Christmas

“Sometimes women are braver than men,” Olga told me when I met her in Ukraine this month. But her sister paid the ultimate price for defending her country. My piece for @inews.co.uk

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Great attention to gender sensitivity at a local steam train experience we took our family to today #Epping Ongar Railway #Christmas