Poverty
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.
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![](data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg'%20viewBox%3D'0%200%20510%20315'%2F%3E "Barefoot and shirtless, Karim Sawadogo, 9, works with his uncle at a gold mine. He has been to school, but only for a while. "My dream," he says, "is to make enough money so I don't have to do this anymore." Image by Larry C. Price. Burkina Faso, 2013.")
Pulitzer Center Update
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...
May 31, 2013 -
China's investment in Zambia holds promise: billions of dollars and thousands of jobs. But after...
![](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/05-31-13/untoldstories_holes_price_burkinafaso01.jpg.webp?h=521b0eb9&itok=8U_pPm4r "Barefoot and shirtless, Karim Sawadogo, 9, works with his uncle at a gold mine. He has been to school, but only for a while. "My dream," he says, "is to make enough money so I don't have to do this anymore." Image by Larry C. Price. Burkina Faso, 2013.")
![](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/05-29-13/nyaya_bayalpata_001.jpg.webp?h=1116cd87&itok=cAIOo8LZ "A group of Community Health Worker Leaders (CHWL's) gather for their twice-weekly meeting at Bayalpata Hospital, a health facility run by Nyaya Health, in Bayalpata, Achham, in the far western region of Nepal, November 23, 2012. Nyaya pays the CHWL's and teaches them basic health skills, which they in turn teach to village-level Female Community Health Volunteers. The term "nyaya" is a Nepali word that roughly translates to "the actualization of justice" and is the core of Nyaya Health's unique open source approach to rural health care. Image by Allison Shelley. Nepal, 2013.")
![](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/05-21-13/ec1.jpg.webp?h=5d5b1249&itok=hQkog5Qh "Public health is as much about medicine as it is about culture, GPEI has learned. So, local elders, and sometimes members of the local clergy, are given the title of "influencer." They accompany vaccinators or station themselves at vaccination booths. Their task is to convince parents that the vaccine is safe for the child to consume. Image by Esha Chhabra. India, 2013.")
