RISC provides first aid training free of cost to freelance journalists working in all media – photography, print and broadcast – to help mitigate the many physical threats they face in the field.
Journalist Sebastian Junger founded RISC after his close friend and colleague, acclaimed photographer Tim Hetherington, died from wounds he suffered in a mortar attack while covering the 2011 conflict in Libya. Hetherington’s injuries were serious, and none of the journalists traveling with him were trained in the life-sustaining first aid techniques that might have saved his life during the short ride to the hospital.
Since RISC’s first medical training in April 2012, it has received over 500 applications from untrained freelance conflict journalists around the world. As of December 2015, RISC has trained a total of 264 journalists. Three trainings took place in 2014 in New York, Kiev, and Nairobi.
Video features RISC alumni: Neil Brandvold, Allison Shelley, Keith Lane, Spencer Chumbley, Andrew Quilty, Hector Guerrero.
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