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October 03, 2016 | Pulitzer Center
Tanzania: Where Are the Missing Bodies?
Journalists in developing countries understand the importance of accurate road safety statistics.
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Tanzania
April 26, 2016 | Pulitzer Center
Tanzania's Challenge in Preventing Deforestation
Individual firewood collection is only one of many sources of deforestation in Tanzania, but it is one that has numerous consequences.
April 25, 2016 | Pulitzer Center
In Photos: Tanzania's Biogas Initiative
Tanzania conservationists try to encourage locals to install biogas instead of collect wood for fire.
November 12, 2015 | Pulitzer Center
Female Power in a Maasai Village
By struggling to feed her family, Sipapei Lekisamba and her fellow Maasai women are disrupting the very foundations of their patriarchal society and earning a right to financial independence.
November 06, 2015 | Global Citizen
Maasai Women "Carry Each Other"
Women in Tanzania's Oltukai Village are teaching each other how to "wake up" to their own potential—reaching for financial independence in a typically patriarchal society.
November 05, 2015 | Pulitzer Center
Maasai Women Band Together for a Chance at Financial Independence
Maasai women provide for their families while uniting to fight harsh stigmas against businesswomen.
October 28, 2015 | Global Health NOW
In Zanzibar, Swim School to Fight Drownings
Drowning causes 372,000 deaths annually, but no global prevention effort exists as of yet. One NGO, with help from a UK charity, is tackling the issue on the small island of Zanzibar.
July 02, 2015 | International Business Times
Is Africa's 'Green Revolution' a Mask for a Profit-Led Corporate Bonanza?
The results of the agricultural 'Green Revolution' in post-war Asia and Latina America remain controversial. As the African version starts, many groups show trepidation for the future.
June 22, 2015 | Pulitzer Center
Are New Bathing Suits Helping Zanzibari Girls Learn to Swim?
With the introduction of specially-designed swimsuits, girls in one Zanzibar town are now being encouraged to participate in an aquatic survival program.
June 22, 2015 | Pulitzer Center
Zanzibar: NGO Helps Kids Get Serious about Their Swimming
Many boys in the village of Kendwa know how to swim, but learning aquatic survival skills is new to everyone.
June 12, 2015 | Pulitzer Center
Zanzibar Swim Teacher Looks to Boost Female Enrollment
Haji Ali Haji learned to swim when he was 10 or 11 years old. Now, in his hometown of Nungwi, he's teaching girls who wouldn't learn otherwise not just how to swim, but how to survive in open water.
June 07, 2015 | Pulitzer Center
Zanzibar Divers Take on Role of Ocean First Responders
Since the sinking of two passenger ferries in 2011 and 2012, Zanzibari residents trained in diving have taken on the role of first responders.
January 06, 2011 | Awards
Mary Wiltenburg wins International Catholic Union of the Press Award
Mary Wiltenburg has won the International Catholic Union of the Press 2010 Award for Solidarity with Refugees for her Christian Science Monitor series on the resettlement of Bill Clinton Hadam, a refugee from Tanzania, and his family in America.
April 25, 2010 | Awards
Mary Wiltenburg Wins Awards for her Reporting in Tanzania from ASJA and EWA
The American Society of Journalists and Authors recently announced the winners of its annual writing awards. Wiltenburg won first place in the Profiles category for "Lost in Migration."
She also received a special citation from the Education Writers Association, which recently announced its 2009 winners for education reporting for "Little Bill Clinton: A Day in the Life of a New American."
July 14, 2009 | Project news
Context Africa: A Year in the Life of a Refugee
Pulitzer Center grantee Mary Wiltenburg talks about her work for Christian Science Monitor on “Little Bill Clinton,” a refugee displaced by the conflicts in Congo and Rwanda, currently living in Atlanta, Georgia.