Finbarr O'Reilly works for Reuters in West and Central Africa and was the winner in February of the World Press Photo of the Year award. In the following story, slugged BC-WITNESS-POLIO/ and headlined "WITNESS-Hope blooms in smiles of Kinshasa polio kids", he reports on the "polio kids" of a donor-funded support centre in Kinshasa. O'Reilly's photographs of the children are available to Reuters News Pictures subscribers.
