Gabriella Jozwiak
@gabriellajoz.bsky.social
Freelance journalist writing about children for the Telegraph, iNews, Devex, Equal Times & others. Dart Centre for Trauma & Journalism alumni. Premio Luchetta, Freelancing For Journalists and Amnesty International award winner.
www.gabriellajozwiak.com
www.gabriellajozwiak.com
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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
www.telegraph.co.uk
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...
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-...
Freelance Journalism Awards 2025 Shortlist!
Let's see who our finalists are
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October 2, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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.
September 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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.
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...
Gabriella's Sierra Leone Marathon Fundraiser for Street Child
Help Gabriella Jozwiak raise money to support Street Child
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September 12, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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...
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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:
haitiantimes.com/2025/08/16/s...
haitiantimes.com/2025/08/16/s...
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.
haitiantimes.com
August 18, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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:
haitiantimes.com/2025/08/16/s...
haitiantimes.com/2025/08/16/s...
Reposted by Gabriella Jozwiak
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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August 4, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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...
'Daddy has to use tough language' - NATO chief woos Trump after Israel-Iran ceasefire
Podcast Episode · Ukraine: The Latest · 25/06/2025 · 1h 6m
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June 26, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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 - my latest for @telglobalhealth.bsky.social www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
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
www.telegraph.co.uk
June 19, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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 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 education funding crumbles, the sector must ‘get its house in order’
www.devex.com
June 12, 2025 at 11:05 AM
My latest piece for @devex.com - what global education practitioners told me needs to happen next to survive massive budget cuts
Reposted by Gabriella Jozwiak
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 education funding crumbles, the sector must ‘get its house in order’
www.devex.com
June 6, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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...
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.”
www.devex.com
June 6, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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...
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...
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.
www.amnesty.org.uk
June 6, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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.
🚨BREAKING: Wael Al-Dahdouh has just delivered a speech to journalists in the UK demanding our government stops arming Israel.
And telling UK journalists they must use their platforms to speak out against Israel's genocide or risk complicity.
#AmnestyMediaAwards
And telling UK journalists they must use their platforms to speak out against Israel's genocide or risk complicity.
#AmnestyMediaAwards
June 5, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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.
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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
April 28, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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
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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
April 25, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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!
📢 EVENT: Join us on Mon 28 April at the Frontline Club for the launch of our latest magazine issue, The Forgotten Patients. The panel explores the psychological toll of war and how it can affect one’s ability to speak - focusing on #Gaza and #Ukraine:
www.indexoncensorship.org/events/left-...
www.indexoncensorship.org/events/left-...
April 22, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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!
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...
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...
www.nurseryworld.co.uk
March 31, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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...
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...
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
www.telegraph.co.uk
March 20, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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...
‘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
Join the MORE BALL GAMES Movement – Reclaim Physical Activity, Movement and Play 🏀⚽
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
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March 18, 2025 at 9:11 AM
‘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
"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...
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.
www.devex.com
March 7, 2025 at 12:28 PM
"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...
It was only a matter of time #Ukraine www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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.
www.reuters.com
March 6, 2025 at 12:16 PM
It was only a matter of time #Ukraine www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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...
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
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March 5, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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...
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...
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
www.theguardian.com
March 4, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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...
Meanwhile in Serbia... 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
www.theguardian.com
March 4, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Meanwhile in Serbia... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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...
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.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 6, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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...
What loss of USAID funding could mean for Ukraine | Devex
www.devex.com
February 6, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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...