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Zambia

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    Author

    Lydia Makina

    Lydia Makina is a 26-year-old journalist from Livingstone, Zambia.

    May 23, 2022
  • Image by Oliver Staley. Zambia, undated.
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    Education Resource

    Meet the Journalist: Oliver Staley

    Strokes kill six million annually and leave millions more disabled. This problem is particularly...

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    Oliver Staley
    Grantee
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    Stanley Zimba examines a patient. Image courtesy of DMS Productions/Dawson Sikute. Zambia, 2019.
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    PART OF: Stroke Is a Global Epidemic

    Zambia Has 17 Million People, a Stroke Epidemic, and No Neurologists

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    Oliver Staley
    Grantee
    December 31, 2019
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    Stroke Is a Global Epidemic

    Stroke is the world's second-leading killer and is particularly deadly in developing nations. In...

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    Oliver Staley
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    At the Ateneo de Manila University in Quezon City, security guards are trained to help students cross the street safely. Image by Dinna Louise C. Dayao. Philippines, 2019.
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    PART OF: Reporting on Road Safety in the Philippines

    Strategies To Keep Children Safe on the Roads

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    Dinna Louise C. Dayao
    Grantee
    January 23, 2019
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    PART OF: Proxy War in the Horn of Africa

    Ismail Einashe Interviewed on China Africa Project Podcast

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    Ismail Einashe
    Grantee
    December 3, 2018
  • Brian Jovo, 14, collects contaminated water from a pool at Kabwe's Black Mountain. Image by Larry Price. Zambia, 2017.
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    Education Resource

    Meet the Journalist: Larry C. Price

    Pulitzer Center grantee Larry C. Price went to Zambia to photograph what might be the world's most...

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    Larry C. Price
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    Children, boys and adults work daily, weather permitting, digging rocks out of the slag heaps adjacent to the non-operating lead mine at Kabwe. The larger rocks are piled, crushed by small hammers, bagged, and ultimately sold as building material. The rocks contain up to 5 percent lead and are highly toxic. Locals with no other jobs perform this hazardous work.  Image by Larry C. Price. Zambia, 2017. 
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    PART OF: The Black Death of Kabwe

    Zambia: The Rock Crushers of Kabwe

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    Larry C. Price
    Grantee
    June 16, 2017
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    Fostina Kasaila Fostina, 11, a 5th grader. With her is Enoch Kasaila, her grandfather. At 4 years of age, Kasaila started showing signs of lead poisoning including loss of memory and lethargy. Image by Larry C. Price. Zambia, 2017.
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    PART OF: The Black Death of Kabwe

    Legacy of Lead: The Children of Kabwe

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    Larry C. Price
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    June 14, 2017
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    Lesson Plans

    The World's Most Toxic Town

    Use reporting on Zambia’s lead mines by Damian Carrington and Larry C. Price to explore the causes, effects and responses to toxic lead poisoning.

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    June 13, 2017
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    Atop Black Mountain

More than 6 million metric tonnes of lead slag form Black Mountain, a 30-meter pile of toxic lead waste that still contains a sizable quantity of lead, copper, manganese and zinc. Due to a depressed economy and lack of employment among many of Kabwe's residents, scavengers toil daily to mine some of the richer veins of lead slag for resale to reprocessing smelters in Zambia. The work is dangerous and sometimes deadly. Weak tunnels are dug to reach the brown layers of slag, which…
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    PART OF: The Black Death of Kabwe

    Subsistence Mining at Kabwe's Black Mountain

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    Larry C. Price
    Grantee
    June 2, 2017
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  • Lead levels in Kabwe are as much as 100 times recommended safety levels. Image by Larry C. Price. Zambia, 2017.
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    Pulitzer Center Update

    This Week: The World’s Most Toxic Town

    The World's Most Toxic TownLarry C. Price and Damian CarringtonFor almost a century, the town of...

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    Jeff Barrus
    Communications Director
    May 31, 2017

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