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March 21, 2017 | In These Times
Our Cotton Colonies
Following a T-shirt's supply chain from Burkina Faso to Bangladesh to your local mall—and back again.
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Burkina Faso
March 02, 2017 | The New York Times
A Glimpse of the Workers Who Make Your Clothes
Pulitzer Center grantee Jošt Franko was featured on The New York Times Lens Blog for his work on the cotton trade.
January 26, 2017 | Delo
The Path of Cotton
Article about the Global path of cotton in the Saturday supplement of the biggest Slovenian daily Delo
January 09, 2017 | Open Society Foundation
Jost Franko's Cotton Project on Open Society Foundation Instagram Feed
Open Society Foundations instagram takeover with the Global supply chain of cotton industry project
December 24, 2016 | Pulitzer Center
Picking Cotton in Burkina Faso
What would change for farmers in Burkina Faso who rely on manual labor if they knew they were competing against farmers in the U.S. who use machines for pressing cotton bales?
December 23, 2016 | Pulitzer Center
The Path of Cotton in Burkina Faso, Bangladesh and Slovenia
Photographer Jost Franko follows the path of cotton in Burkina Faso, Bangladesh and Slovenia, where he finds farmers and textile workers who are often struggling—underpaid or mistreated.
December 13, 2016 | The Nation
These Photos Show the People Who Turn a Cotton Plant Into Your Jeans
Following the path of cotton from Burkina Faso to Bangladesh to your local mall.
February 06, 2014 | Pulitzer Center
Tarnished: The True Cost of Gold
On Feb. 14, the Pulitzer Center releases its newest e-book on the environmental and human prices of gold mining. Whether this resource is produced in a way that is fair to all is very much up to us.
October 25, 2013 | TIME for Kids
Burkina Faso: Hard Labor
Journalist Larry C. Price investigates child labor and working conditions in gold mines in Burkina Faso.
August 05, 2013 | Pulitzer Center
The Cost of Gold in Burkina Faso: Holes
To get at the gold beneath the soil in Burkina Faso, miners sink deep pits far below the surface. The work is dirty and dangerous. Many who toil in the underground darkness are children.
August 03, 2013 | Pulitzer Center
The Cost of Gold in Burkina Faso: Hands and Feet
Photographer Larry Price often focuses on eyes to catch the essence of a story. In the gold mines of Burkina Faso, he was drawn instead to the hands and feet of working children.
August 02, 2013 | Pulitzer Center
The Cost of Gold in Burkina Faso: The Rock Crushers
With no protection and often working barefoot, children tend to the machines that pulverize gold ore. This might be the most dangerous job in small-scale mining.
Cotton: The Story Behind the Garment Industry
From cotton farms in Burkina Faso to sweatshops in Bangladesh and Romania, a story of the real costs of our globalized economy.
The Cost of Gold: Child Labor in Burkina Faso
In just a quarter century, one of the world's poorest countries has transformed itself into Africa's fourth-largest producer of gold. But at what cost to the children who labor in the mines?
January 05, 2017 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalists: Meta Krese and Jošt Franko
Meta Krese and Jost Franko discuss today’s globalized economy by connecting growers of cotton from Burkina Faso, the garment industry in Bangladesh, and European consumers.
July 30, 2013 | Meet the Journalist
Journalist Larry Price on Child Labor in Burkina Faso
Journalist Larry Price discusses his reporting on what it's like to be a child laborer in the gold mines of Burkina Faso.
April 20, 2016 | General news
Larry C. Price on WYSO Weekend
Pulitzer Center grantee Larry C. Price talks with his hometown radio station in Dayton, Ohio, about his work.
October 25, 2015 | General news, Project news
'Fatal Extraction' Selected as Finalist for Two Multimedia Awards
International media organizations nominate 'Fatal Extraction' for innovation in multimedia storytelling.
September 09, 2015
How Africa's Journalists United for a Pioneering Collaboration
Reporters in one of the largest ever journalistic collaborations in Africa spent months unearthing court records and hushed-up government audits to tell human stories of mining's impacts in Africa.
October 07, 2014 | General news, Project news
Fashion's True Price at Photoville NYC
Photographers take hard look at exploitative working conditions, health hazards and environmental problems associated with production of leather, garments and gold.
February 19, 2014 | General news, Project news
Tarnished: The True Cost of Gold
Cross continents with eleven of our grantee journalists as they take you into the mines to show you where we get our gold––exposing the hidden social and environmental costs of this business.
December 27, 2013 | General news
2013: A Year in Photos
The Pulitzer Center staff shares favorite images from 2013.
August 06, 2013 | General news
This Week: Childhood Betrayed
We are excited to announce that our award-winning e-books, "In Search of Home" and "Voices of Haiti," are now available on Amazon.
July 15, 2013 | General news
This Week: Midas in Burkina Faso
Over the last two decades, Burkina Faso has emerged as Africa’s fourth largest exporter of gold, creating an ever-expanding army of child laborers.
May 31, 2013 | Project news
Q&A with Larry C. Price on His "Cost of Gold" Project
Dan Havlik of Imaging Resource interviews grantee and Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Larry C. Price on his powerful photo project documenting child labor in gold mines.
May 03, 2013 | General news
This Week in Review: Escape From Timbuktu
Tom Hundley shares this weeks reporting on the rare manuscripts smuggled from inside Timbuktu's hallowed libraries, child laborers in Burkina Faso and a conflict free tin mining initiative in the DRC.
September 26, 2016 | All Grades
Jewell: Interpreting Global Issues Through Picasso's "Guernica"
This is a painting lesson that combines Pablo Picasso's famous 1937 Guernica with current day issues presented from The Pulitzer Center.
September 23, 2016 | All Grades
Child Labor
Explore reporting projects related to child labor.
June 17, 2016 | All Grades
Funston: Interpreting Global Issues Through Picasso's "Guernica"
This is a painting lesson that combines Pablo Picasso's famous 1937 "Guernica" with current day issues presented by the Pulitzer Center.
March 23, 2016 | Middle School, High School
Interpreting Global Issues Through Picasso's 'Guernica'
This is a painting lesson that combines Pablo Picasso's famous 1937 Guernica with current day issues presented by the Pulitzer Center.
October 12, 2015 | All Grades
Museum of Current Crises
This lesson plan outlines a project that allows students the opportunity to connect with a contemporary crisis somewhere in the world.