Region

North America

February 20, 2009 | Pulitzer Center

Talking water

Jon Sawyer, Pulitzer Center

We're scouting out lively voices on water issues--three social entrepreneurs from Africa on the forefront of innovation in tackling the sanitation issues at the root of some of the world's biggest health challenges.

Africans

January 14, 2009 | Pulitzer Center

Mexico: Last day in Culiacán

Clayton Worfolk, for the Pulitzer Center, Culiacán, Mexico

On his last day in Culiacán, Pulitzer Center grantee Clayton Worfolk witnessed a traumatic crime scene—an embodiment of what has made this city one of the most dangerous in Mexico.

January 12, 2009 | Pulitzer Center

Life goes on in Culiacán

Clayton Worfolk and Jordan deBree, for the Pulitzer Center, Culiacán, Mexico

People here are mad. People here are scared. But what's striking to an outsider (especially one whose prior point of reference for quality of life in the city was the "Policiaca" section of the local newspapers) is that the humor, charm and pride of daily life in Culiacán persists. Every person we meet is friendlier than the last, and it is easy to imagine this being a joyful place to live, were it not for the violence.

December 30, 2008 | The Baltimore Sun

Unsettled

It's not that Muhammad Shumri imagined building a new life in Baltimore would be easy. But he didn't expect it to be so hard.

The 48-year-old physician was a high-ranking official in the Iraqi Ministry of Health when a photograph that placed him at a meeting with U.S. officials was stolen from his computer. Soon he was receiving anonymous threats warning him to stop working with the Americans.

He moved his wife and five children out of Iraq, traveled alone to the United States and requested asylum. He planned to get a job, find a place to live and send for his family.

December 28, 2008 | Pulitzer Center

Arrival

Clayton Worfolk and Jordan deBree, for the Pulitzer Center,

It doesn't take long to see the signs of fear that has settled in