There are now more people under the age of 25 in the world than ever before, presenting both opportunities for social progress and considerable challenges. Pulitzer Center stories tagged with “Youth” feature reporting on young people, the issues they face and the potential for change they represent. Use the Pulitzer Center Lesson Builder to find and create lesson plans on youth.
Linda Matchan, for the Pulitzer Center
Just fifty years ago, the people of Igloolik, Nunavut were nomads. Today, Linda Matchan reports from Igloolik, examining the young people of the Igloolik community who cope as tradition collides with education and the modern world.
Join Pulitzer Center Student Fellow Sara Peach as she covers the Copenhagen climate negotiations, one of the most important environmental meetings of our time. This December, Sara travels top Copenhagen to meet those who will be most affected by climate change and youth.
Across the globe, many young adults and children worry about the potentially catastrophic effects of climate change. They fear that by the time they are middle-aged, the world will be a much warmer, stormier and more uncertain place than it is today.
Shaun McCanna will discuss Afghanistan on the "Veteran's Voice" radio program on Friday, November 20. The show will air on KBOO 90.7 in Portland, Oregon during the 9am Pacific time hour.
Linda Matchan and Michele McDonald's project "Nunavut, Canada: Hope on Ice" was featured on the Geo Quiz segment of PRI's The World on Nov. 19.
See a slideshow of images from Nunavut featured on The World.
Linda Matchan, for the Pulitzer Center (Photos by Michele McDonald)
Linda Matchan, for the Pulitzer Center (Photos by Michele McDonald)
Running late after a break, one student rushes into Ataguttaaluk High School, while two other students are unconcerned about being late.
Linda Matchan, for the Pulitzer Center (Photos by Michele McDonald
The other day, on a bitterly cold morning in Igloolik, Michele and I suited up in four or five layers and started walking to the airport to meet up with Artcirq, the Arctic circus. They were heading to Iqaluit to rehearse the show they're performing at the February winter Olympics in Vancouver.
Linda Matchan, for the Pulitzer Center (Photos by Michele McDonald)
The tiny Inuit community of Igloolik sits 200 miles above the Arctic Circle in Nunavut, Canada's newest territory formed in 1999 as the result of a land claims settlement. Igloolik is home to only 2,000 people, many of whom still live in a traditional way, hunting seal and caribou and hand-stitching animal skin clothing. It is stark, tight-knit, and beautiful, but also very poor and deeply troubled, struggling to adjust to the transition from nomadic life just 50 years ago to a modern digital world.
Linda Matchan, for the Pulitzer Center (Photos by Michele McDonald)
I'm here, near the top of the world, to write about Artcirq, an Inuit circus in the high Arctic region of Canada. It's an unlikely story: It was started by Guillaume Saladin, a circus acrobat from Montreal who'd spent summers here as a boy and wanted to return to help the community. A lot of help was needed. Life is tough here in Igloolik: people are poor and young people – including friends of Guillaume's – were starting to take their own lives.
Shaun McCanna will be on The Michelangelo Signorile Show on Friday, Oct. 30, at 3:30 EST, discussing the heroin problem among soldiers in Afghanistan. The show airs on the OutQ channel, Sirius 109/XM 98.
The Nepali government will give $1.6 million for the education of the former kamlari girls, or indentured servants.
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