Some of my favourite features from 2018-2019. I had a chance to interview people from all over the world and right across my street.
Mustafa’s story went on to win two RTDNA Canada awards, and Robin’s story was nominated for a RTDNA Canada award.
ottawa: Seeing things differently - CBC
Mustafa Al Humairi escaped war, crossed three continents and became an Apple employee — all without the use of his eyes.
Growing up blind in Iraq, Mustafa Al Humairi was told he would never amount to much. That changed after he received a tool that helped him unlock his capabilities — a phone.
CBC Ottawa asked Al Humairi to describe how he navigated a route from Baghdad to Ottawa without his sight.
ottawa: Paid to play
How some Ottawa gamers are making a living doing what they love. - Cbc
It's 6 p.m. and Robin Lee is booting up her computer and getting down to work. For the next several hours, she'll remain hunkered down in her Nepean living room while people halfway around the world watch her every move.
Lee is a professional streamer on the immensely popular online gaming platform Twitch, where she goes by the moniker HiveQueen_. With over 18,000 dedicated followers from around the world, she describes herself as the queen bee of her own global online community.
Tanzania: garlic processing provides income for women in manyara - barza wire
A warm wind carries the smell of garlic, earth, and steel throughout the Didihama Amcos factory in Tanzania’s Manyara region. Seven women enter the cool, damp factory. As they walk, the soles of their shoes stick lightly to the concrete floor where garlic particles linger.
One of the women is Lilian Konki, a garlic processor from the nearby village of Diomati. For most of her life, Mrs. Konki worked on other people’s farms. That all changed after her husband left her and their ten children.