By Teresia Mutuku, Communications Officer and Web Manager, WACC

The WACC Photo competition 2010 has been launched. The competition, in its seventh year, is being run on Flickr  for the fifth time! This year’s theme is Communication and Poverty. Poverty includes communication poverty. Stronger voices of people living in poverty lead to better understanding and action aimed at tackling injustice and inequality. With open access to information and knowledge, poor communities can work towards a better future. Images should focus on communication helping to overcome poverty; tearing down communication barriers; having a voice and being heard.

Photos must be loaded on Flickr. If you do not have an account on Flickr, you need to create one by following this link… and then join the competition.

Winners of the competition will be awarded cash prizes. There will be one first prize and five commendations. The first prize is $500 and each commendation will be awarded $200.

The closing date is 1 May 2010. The competition winners will be announced later in May.

This popular event brings together hundreds of photographers from around the world with each photo on the subject of communication. Last year’s theme was Portraying Gender. The winning photo was submitted by  Sudipto Das, a photojournalist from Calcutta, India. The photo features rural women in West Bengal, India, taking part in a traditional boat race, challenging male members of the village. The race was traditionally dominated by men.

For more details on last year's winners click here...

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