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Foreign aid can take many forms, from financial aid for economic development to medical and military assistance. Pulitzer Center grantee stories tagged with “Aid” cover the full spectrum of international aid given to countries and people in need. Use the Pulitzer Center Lesson Builder to find and create lesson plans on aid.

 

February 01, 2016 | BBC

Sri Lanka: The Country that Supplies Eyes

Ross Velton

There is a worldwide shortage of corneas for transplant operations. However one country is doing its best to satisfy demand without seeking any reward—at least in this life.

January 20, 2016 | Pulitzer Center

Refugees Find Hope and Despair on Lesbos

Jeanne Carstensen

The arrival of over 500,000 refugees to the Greek island of Lesbos in 2015 has turned the eastern shoreline into a crisis zone. Locals, NGOs and volunteers have come together to care for arrivals.

June 19, 2009 | News Points

People Around the World Share Their Water Stories

Chris Riha, for the Pulitzer Center

Nine-year-old Ely Kleinsmith knows that water and sanitation are issues that affect us all -- and that it's up to each of us to insure that everyone in the world has access to these resources that too many of us take for granted. What Ely has done, in his hometown of Solon, Iowa, is to found a Water Club aimed at raising awareness, and attract funding, for water-related programs in Haiti.

March 22, 2009 | News Points

Talking Water: Voices from Istanbul

Jon Sawyer, Pulitzer Center

This dispatch was featured on the St. Louis Beacon's online publication on 3-23-09 as an Editor's Pick.

ISTANBUL, Turkey – An international gathering devoted to water's dominant role in global disease and health was rich in rhetoric and sparse on anything in the way of tangible policy breakthroughs.