Youth
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.
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Lesson Plans
A Free Meal: India's School Lunch Program
India's midday meal program is the largest free lunch school program in the world. Through animation, radio reports and articles, students discover the successes and failures of the program.
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Lesson Plans
Families of Domestic Workers from the Philippines
In this lesson, students evaluate the impact of how an author orders information by analyzing two articles about Filipino women leaving their countries to work as domestic workers in the Middle East.
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Lesson Plans
U.S.-Cuba Relations
This lesson uses reporting by Tracey Eaton and Rachel Southmayd to support student understanding around the state of relations between the US and Cuba.
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Education Resource
Meet the Journalist: Mathilde Dratwa
Mathilde Dratwa discusses what attracted her to Rhitu Chatterjee's reporting on India's...
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Pulitzer Center Update
Four Pulitzer Center Grantees Nominated for News and Documentary Emmy Awards
Honored multimedia projects range from an investigation into child labor in gold mining to an...
July 24, 2015
![](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/07-19-15/arelis.jpg.webp?h=5cb8a49a&itok=WlOidMUO "Some 20-somethings spend their free time at the beach at nightclubs. Arelys Blanco, 22, would rather hit the streets and pass out photos of political prisoners.
She’s a member of the Ladies in White, a political opposition group founded 12 years ago to push for the release of 75 democracy activists, journalists and others jailed in a 2003 crackdown.
"I never agreed with this regime, and so I joined," Blanco said. "I want total change for this country." Image by Tracey Eaton. Cuba, 2015.")
![](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/06-30-15/dscf1173.jpg.webp?h=59f9d53c&itok=c1AReq8Q "Eddie Lenihan, an Irish storyteller based in County Clare, says, "If we can become proud of it, rather than resentful of it, and say no, we’re not going to let it go because if we do, we’re letting go of part of what we had." Image by Anna Hoffman. Ireland, 2015.")
![](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/07-23-15/635726732155446731-julio2.jpg.webp?h=d669e9be&itok=tTxjnFQ9 "Musician Julio Cesar Onate, 27, far right, checks his email at a WiFi hotspot outside the Hotel Vedado in Havana. "There's a little more freedom in things we didn't have before," he said. "Now they give you the opportunity to get on the Internet." Image by Tracey Eaton. Cuba, 2015.")
