Sonke intern, Veronica Washaya, is currently participating in the six-month Ground Up training programme to develop community journalists.
This week, the Ground Up team has published a series of articles on the Maitland Refugee Centre exposing abuse and corruption and highlighting the extremely difficult circumstances that refugees face.
- The top featured story on the Ground Up homepage is this:
http://groundup.org.za/content/corruption-and-inhumanity-maitland-home-affairs - The corruption story:
http://groundup.org.za/content/how-immigrants-are-scammed-maitland-home-affairs - An editorial: How the asylum process can be improved:
http://groundup.org.za/content/how-asylum-seeking-process-can-be-improved - An editorial that should raise a few eyebrows: Why we paid a bribe:
http://groundup.org.za/content/why-we-paid-bribe
