Stories: Poverty
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Haiti: How do You Aid a Failed State?
"When people talk about my country, they refer to it as a failed state," said Pierre Joaquim, an unemployed 26-year-old who stood outside the Haitian National Police headquarters in ...
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“As Go the Hippos” IRP Fellow’s story on Congo in the Atlantic Magazine
On the blue-gray waters of Lake Edward, where the eastern fringe of Congo blends into Uganda, Byanmongo Matabishi, a fisherman from the Congolese village of Vitshumbi, stands on a ...
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The Fire: The Price of Oil in Africa
Nigeria should be a massively rich country. It’s the most populous nation in Africa and the world’s sixth leading oil producer. Over a quarter trillion dollars in oil ...
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Democracy’s Chance: Nigeria
LAGOS, Nigeria — We step gingerly out of the speedboats onto the white sand beach of Tomaro, taking care not to dip even a toe into the green lagoon that snakes between this ...
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Micro-enterprise, macro hope
KAMPALA, UGANDA- FOR MANY of the very poorest in this city, the way out of poverty begins by rolling thin strips of recycled colored paper into beads that are glued, strung on fish ...
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The Kenya Hillary Clinton Should See
One-third of the Kenyans in this capital of east Africa live in the hivelike alleys of Kibera, an unofficial settlement of mud huts and raw sewage. A million Nairobi citizens reside ...
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Building a better future for Pakistan’s children: IRP Fellow Reports for PBS’s WorldFocus
In Pakistan, where more than 10 million children never attend school, one charity-funded education program is offering a faint glimmer of hope. NBC's Amna Nawaz traveled to ...
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Barton: If the shoe fits, give thanks
I gave a shoe-shine boy my last twenty last week. Not dollars. Soles. That's the currency of Peru, where I've been for the past two weeks. Twenty soles is roughly $7. I had been ...
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Video: ‘Voices of Kenya’s Youth’
Kenya’s youth face many challenges including poverty, hunger, lack of employment prospects and an overburdened--and underfunded--education system. Students at the University of ...
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Trapped in Lebanon: Foreign Domestic Workers With No Rights or Way Home
When Rose Adhiambo left Kenya for a job in Lebanon, she could have never imagined that six months later she would be returning home in a coffin. Twenty-four-year-old Adhiambo did ...
