Malta's Permanent Representative to the European Union, Ambassador Richard Cachia Caruana, yesterday inaugurated the Media Engagement in Development Issues and Promotion (MEDIP) trans-national photographic exhibition at the EuropeAid Cooperation Office in Brussels.

The project MEDIP is run by six European NGOs and is an awareness campaign on development issues through the media. The project climaxes with the photo exhibition.

Six NGOs are partners in this project: SOS Malta, the Foundation for Development of Democratic Rights (Hungary), the Jaan Tonisson Institute (Estonia), the European Institute of Cyprus, Slovene Philanthropy, and the Civil Society Development Foundation (Romania).

During the exhibition, Ambassador Richard Cachia Caruana, Permanent Representative of Malta to the European Union, presented a commemorative trophy to the winner of the photographic exhibition. The trophy was collected by Ms Iuliana Rada on behalf of the winning photographer, Mr Silviu Pavel (Romania).

The photographic exhibition on development is being organised by the NGO SOS Malta together with DG AIDCO (EuropeAid Cooperation Office). SOS Malta President Claudia Taylor-East was accompanied by Monique Falzon, Project Officer and Susan Ellul, Project Assistant, SOS Malta .