Recent Beneficiaries

Our Freelance Assistance Programme distributes over 100 grants a year to freelancers and their families in crisis.

Here are just some of the freelancers and families who have been supported by The Rory Peck Trust during the last year.

Manika Jha

Nepalese journalist - attacked

"Nepali society is very conservative and they believe that women should stay at home and certainly not go out to collect stories. We always face sexism, sexual harassment and abuse in society and sadly even in the workplace, it is all too...

Andrea Bernardi

Italian Video-Journalist – Injured in Libya

In September 2011 while on assignment in Sirte, one of the last remaining strongholds of the regime in Libya, freelance video-journalist Andrea Bernardi was in a field hospital when it came under attack from Gaddafi forces. Deciding to leave to get...

Maria del Carmen Ruiz

Widow of Luis Eduardo Gómez, killed in Colombia

70 year-old Luis Eduardo Gómez continued to work as a freelance journalist after he retired in Colombia – one of the most dangerous places in the world to work for media professionals who face intimidation by paramilitaries, guerrillas...

Austin Mackell and Aliya Alwi

Australian and Egyptian Journalists - Awaiting Trial in Egypt

Austin Mackell, a print and television journalist from Australia, and Aliya Alwi, an Egyptian translator and fixer, are facing trial in Egypt. Both are experienced journalists who have worked with major international publications and media...

Mohammed Alahmad al-Ali

Syrian Journalist - In Exile

“Before the revolution, the situation for journalists was so hard, but now it’s worse. If you cover stories you don’t face the threat of being arrested, you’re facing death. You expect a bullet from a sniper or some shelling...

Ashur and Ahmed

Syrian Journalists - In Exile

Freelancers Ashur and Ahmed** were among a handful of journalists bringing reports out of Daraa in Syria when the first protests against Bashar al Assad's regime began in March 2011. Together with a colleague, they had built up a network of sources...

Guy Martin

British Photographer - Seriously Injured in Libya

Guy Martin, an award-winning photographer from Cornwall in the UK was seriously injured in the mortar attack in Misurata that killed fellow photojournalists Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros. The group had been accompanying rebel fighters into the...