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Main Content: Guardian Development Journalist Competition

If you are an aspiring journalist, freelancer or are passionate about development issues this is your opportunity to be published alongside some of the best journalists in the UK.

Enter and you could be one of 16 finalists who receive an assignment to visit Africa or Asia to write a feature that will be published in special supplements in the Guardian later this year.

THE COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED.

To enter you will need to write a 650-1,000 word article on an aspect of global poverty which deserves more media exposure than it currently receives.

Help give older people in the developing world a voice by writing on one of these themes:

Writing about population ageing
	As the number of older people increases worldwide, there is an urgent need to think through what this means for governments and international agencies – what kind of health, welfare or job programmes will be needed in the future? Read more about: Writing about population ageing

Writing about population ageing

As the number of older people increases worldwide, there is an urgent need to think through what this means for governments and international agencies – what kind of health, welfare or job programmes will be needed in the future?

Writing about older carers
	Because of HIV and AIDS, older people are facing the task of providing and caring for their sick adult children and grandchildren orphaned by AIDS as well as themselves. Read more about: Writing about older carers

Writing about older carers

Because of HIV and AIDS, older people are facing the task of providing and caring for their sick adult children and grandchildren orphaned by AIDS as well as themselves.

Writing about pensions not poverty
	A lifetime of poverty makes it hard for women in developing countries to save and accumulate assets. This leaves them to face chronic poverty in old age. Social pensions can make a tremendous difference. Read more about: Writing about pensions not poverty

Writing about pensions not poverty

Doña Eulogia and her granddaughter. ©Antonio Olmos/HelpAge International

A lifetime of poverty makes it hard for women in developing countries to save and accumulate assets. This leaves them to face chronic poverty in old age. Social pensions can make a tremendous difference.