The BBC World Service Trust has already won a number of prestigious awards this year.
The year started with a GSMA award for education technology for BBC Janala in February. BBC Janala was also recognised in the World Innovation for Education (WISE) Awards in September.
In March our reporter and mentor Mariama Khai Fornah was named Female Reporter of the Year at the Sierra Leone press awards for her coverage of the Charles Taylor trial in The Hague.
Shankaboot, the first Arabic web drama was awarded the Digital Programe (Fiction) award in the International Digital Emmys in April.
Green Fairy, a children's radio show produced by Afghan Education Projects in Afghanistan, was honoured in the New York Festivals radio awards in July.
