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Int’l blogging contest Bangladeshi girl secures 2nd position

bdnews24com, Dhaka
Bangladeshi blogger Sabrina Sultana has secured second position in the Best Blog category in blog searching contest of German news broadcaster Deutsche Welle. The position was elected both by internet users and the judges. About Sabrina, The BOBs, the Deutsche Welle said, "A blogger from Chittagong, Sabrina Sultana was just like the other kids growing up. Then she became physically handicapped by muscular dystrophy. Showing that a handicap doesn't mean the end of the world, she has used her blog to share her experiences and be a vocal proponent for more rights and facilities for the handicapped in Bangladesh, where accessibility is a major difficulty for the physically handicapped. In Bangladesh most people with disabilities live in rural area and most of them are women and children. They are often excluded from their communities and from development activities. Sabrina shows it doesn't have to - and shouldn't - be that way." Overtaking Subrina, the blog 'A Tunisian Girl' has won the seventh annual Deutsche Welle Blog Award for blogging about repression and censorship in her country. The BOBs, the Deutsche Welle announced awards in six multilingual categories on Tuesday and it will be handed over at the Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum in Bonn, Germany on June 20, says a press release. Although no Bengali blog got the jury award, internet users elected Bangladesh's Ami Rahman Pial's blog in the Best Social Activism category and Arif Jebtik's blog in the Best Bengali Blog category. Internet users around the world suggested some 2,100 sites in 11 languages to the contest this year, but the jury trimmed the list down to 187 finalists, the release says. In addition to the jury's decisions, more than 90,000 ballots were cast in an online vote for the contest's 17 user prizes - one in each of the six multilingual categories as well as one for the best blog in each of The BOBs 11 languages. In the Best Blog/English category, internet users chose "Rantings of a Sandmonkey" (www.sandmonkey.org/) as the winner. A list of all the prize winners can be seen online at: http://thebobs.dw-world.de/en/winner, said the release.