Alexandra: Room to Grow
Since 2001, millions of dollars have been spent to improve a poor Johannesburg township. Residents say, however, that the project has often failed to meet their needs.
An estimated 702.1 million people around the world lack access to food, clothing and other basic necessities. Pulitzer Center reporting tagged with “Poverty” feature reporting on health, malnutrition, education inequality and the many other endemic effects of poverty. Use the Pulitzer Center Lesson Builder to find and create lesson plans on poverty.
Since 2001, millions of dollars have been spent to improve a poor Johannesburg township. Residents say, however, that the project has often failed to meet their needs.
Will Fitzgibbon and Álvaro Ortiz take you behind the scenes in the making of Continent of Secrets: Uncovering Africa's Offshore Empires.
Families and communities in the Dominican Republic use solar ovens to better their quality of life. The ovens are cost-effective and families save money for more food.
Magaly Lantigua wants to be a nurse. She thinks a solar oven will help her get there. Lantigua thinks a solar oven will help her save money to attend a university while still caring for her family.
A view from behind the scenes of Dominic Bracco II's short film about Diego Montejano's life.
Efforts to treat Huntington’s disease involve costly drugs way beyond the reach of the poor communities in South America who take part in research studies
A personal story of redemption in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, formerly one of the most violent cities in the world.
Individual firewood collection is only one of many sources of deforestation in Tanzania, but it is one that has numerous consequences.
Los Angeles has seen a 12 percent jump in homelessness between 2013 and 2015, including increasing pockets in residential areas.
Grantee Carina Storrs tells Ikonokast's Mike Haubrich why vaccines don't always work in developing countries.
Studies report that many Indians choose to defecate in the open rather than use accessible toilets. Why is this?
Despite new laws to protect the rights of children in El Salvador who are suffering the consequences of the civil war, many youth remain endangered and seek refuge in orphanages.
Water issues affect us all, from the women who spend hours daily fetching water to political battles over international rivers to melting icepack and rising sea levels. We are all downstream.
Worldwide, just under 900 million people lack reliable access to safe water that is free from disease and industrial waste. And forty percent do not have access to adequate sanitation facilities. The result is one of the world's greatest public health crisis: 4,500 children die every day from waterborne diseases, more than from HIV-AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis combined.
On Wednesday October 6, experts and advocates discussed methods to improve water, sanitation and hygiene facilities and instruction for school children in the developing world.
In November Artcirq will travel to Guinea to collaborate with acrobats from the circus troupe, Kalabante. The film crew is requesting donations to document this trip.
On November 14th, Linda Matchan and Michele McDonald will follow Artcirq as the troupe travels to Guinea to partner with acrobats from the group Kalabante in Conakry, which supports basic education in Guinea, in a joint humanitarian mission.
Four freelance journalists from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting shared their perspectives on the future of journalism in a speech Monday night.
The Pulitzer Center and Nieman Foundation partner to support global health reporting fellowships.
Last month the British medical journal The Lancet reported that in the span of three decades, the number of women dying in childbirth or during pregnancy worldwide decreased substantially.
A recent theatrical production brought a Pulitzer Center-sponsored article from the pages of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer to the stage in New York City as a part of Jane Catherine Shaw's Thirst: Memory of Water. Drawing on sources ranging from Leonardo's Treatise on Water to first person accounts, the show brought together disparate voices to address the practical and spiritual aspects of one of life's essentials—water.
Mark C. Hackett, Special to the Pulitzer Center
Mark is the founder and president of Operation Broken Silence. Views expressed in this guest post are not those of the Pulitzer Center.
For many of us, it's hard to envision a time when water will not be readily available. From drinking to cleaning, water is a constant and often underappreciated presence in our lives. But for 884 million people clean water is a precious commodity. And if we continue to deplete our clean water sources, it will inevitably affect us all.
"Almost a billion people on the planet don't have access to clean drinking water. That's one in eight of us."
That's the message charity: water, a nonprofit organization bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations, wants you to hear.
View "The story of charity: water," a finalist in the 4th annual YouTube's DoGooder Nonprofit Video Awards above.
Specialists from across sectors gathered at the National Geographic Society on World Water Day, Monday, March 22, to share information on an issue seemingly so simple we often take it for granted.
But you don't have to be an expert to know about water.
Just ask the man who sold me my coffee today. "Well, that's obvious," he said of the event, "it doesn't matter what else people have; without water, they're going to go after each other to get it."
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pledged Monday to put water issues on the "front burner" of U.S. foreign policy. She told an audience of specialists and water advocates gathered at the National Geographic Society that solving the global challenge of safe water and sanitation was integral to every other U.S. interest.