Youth

Zanzibar: NGO Helps Kids Get Serious about Their Swimming

Claire Elizabeth Felter

Many boys in the village of Kendwa know how to swim, but learning aquatic survival skills is new to everyone.

June 22, 2015 | Foreign Policy

Can Rwanda Imagine Another President?

Tik Root, Katherine Sullivan

The constitution prohibits Paul Kagame from running for a third term. But many Rwandans want him to stay.

June 21, 2015 | Al Jazeera America

Iraq: Yazidi Kids Draw the Horrors They Saw Fleeing ISIL

Emily Feldman

An art activity organized for Yazidi children displaced by ISIL became a grim reminder of how deeply they — and millions of other children in Iraq and Syria — have been traumatized by war.

June 15, 2015 | Pulitzer Center

Lesson Unplanned: Teenage Pregnancy in the Dominican Republic

Luke Nozicka

To counteract the alarming number of pregnant teenagers, the Dominican Republic launched an initiative in January 2015 to implement sex education in public schools.

June 12, 2015 | Pulitzer Center

Zanzibar Swim Teacher Looks to Boost Female Enrollment

Claire Elizabeth Felter

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.

May 29, 2015 | Jeneen Interlandi | Science & Story

Hungary: Inside Two Roma Settlements

Jeneen Interlandi

Images by Jeneen Interlandi depict life in two Roma settlements in Hungary where residents live with what looks like deep rural poverty: no indoor plumbing, no reliable electricity, no reliable heat.

May 27, 2015 | Pulitzer Center

Hungary: The Artist in Gusev

Jeneen Interlandi

A profile of Marianna Pongo, an artist and writer who lives in Gusev, a Roma settlement in Nyiregyhaza that is blighted by poverty and struggling against segregation.

May 27, 2015 | Pulitzer Center

More for Her Children: A Teen Mother’s Struggle in the Dominican Republic

Luke Nozicka

An 18-year-old mother in the Dominican Republic grapples with how and when to teach her daughter about sex.

May 12, 2015 | Jeneen Interlandi | Science & Story

A Roma Settlement in Hungary

Jeneen Interlandi

Photographs from the Vigtelep settlement in Miskolc, Hungary, where residents are facing eviction.

May 11, 2015 | Outside

This Month’s Most Compelling Race Is Happening on a 6.5km Loop in Rwanda

Tik Root

The country hopes that hosting the African Olympic qualifier will thrust its national team onto the global cycling stage.

May 07, 2015 | Jeneen Interlandi | Science & Story

A History Lesson in Budapest

Jeneen Interlandi

The Roma Holocaust, known as the Porajmos, claimed hundreds of thousands of lives during WWII. The atrocity against the Roma people was not formally recognized until 1982.

May 04, 2015 | Medium

In Rwanda, Building a “University in a Box”

Wyatt Orme, Tik Root

Kepler University is blending online learning with in-person instruction — and is seeing startling results.

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