Third Place
Nancy Lane, Boston Herald
Home for the holidays. 21-month-old Charlotte “Charlie” MacNeil gets ready to go home after spending the last fifive months in three different hospitals. Charlie’s mother Becky Conway put her to bed on July 4th a healthy energetic baby and found her unresponsive and paralyzed the next morning. She was diagnosed with transverse myelitis, a debilitating disease of the spinal cord. Doctors originally thought she would not recover but she has regained some movement, can speak and eat through the mouth. Taking her home “is the only Christmas present I wanted” her mother said as they left the hospital.
Honorable Mention
Jessica Rinaldi, Boston Globe
Patricia Carbajal teaches her daughter, Camilia, to roller-skate along Revere Beach. It’s hard for Patricia, a TPS holder who is one of hundreds
of thousands of Hondurans who have had their immigration status revoked by the Trump administration, not to think about the many opportunities her daughter has in the United States that would be out of reach in Honduras, where, in 2013, children only attended school for seven and a half years on average. Children in Honduras also are at daily risk from random and targeted criminal threats.
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