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WHAT'S GOING ON The World Teenage Reporting Project > COVID-19 showcases stories by teenage reporters from around the world about what their cohorts have been doing to help during the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim has been to combat the prevailing image of the teenager as a problem of some kind, rarely as an engaged helper.
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PARTICIPANTS Major national and international news media organizations and student-run news media based in Bangladesh, Belgium, Beijing China, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Hong Kong China, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Japan, Montenegro, Russia, South Africa, Sweden, The United Kingdom, the United States and Vietnam. The main media partner for the project is News Decoder (France).
Participant profiles are HERE
Their comments are HERE
CONTACT Dr. Aralynn McMane, info [at] youthandnewsmedia.net
USA
THE EAGLE EYE
Noah of Florida decided to help by bringing free pizzas to Holocaust survivors and elderly couples. Next goal: first responders and the homeless.
Story by Charlie Goodman
20 APRIL 2020
FRANCE
NEWS DECODER
FIVE CASES : Teenagers are making 3-D face shields in Kenya and the USA, and delivering necessities in Germany and the USA.
Story by Dylan Carlson-Sirvent
17 APRIL 2020
HONG KONG
THE YOUNG POST
The student-run Free Clinic at China International School raises funds for getting personal protection equipment (PSE) to several organizations that give the supplies to people who would otherwise never have a chance at obtaining them.
THE FULL STORY
Story by Gaile
10 April 2020
USA
THE EAGLE EYE
Student Alexandra Sullivan has founded Creations for Donations and is making earrings, necklaces and more to raise money to feed children.
Story by Ivy Lam
5 APRIL 2020
INDIA
THE GLOBAL TIMES
Shivam Mukherjee of Amity International School
is testing his prototype for a wearable sanitization
band to protect Indian health workers before they
have to get too close.
Story by Saanvi Vaish
18 April 2020
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USA
The LION Online
Students in Illinois distribute checklist cards throughout their neighborhood to help people ask for all kinds of help.
Story by Adriana Serrano
18 April 2020
USA
THE EAGLE EYE
For their #CoronaCant movement, students use great content in a campaign to fight hopelessness around their country and the world.
Story by Ivy Lam
17 April 2020
HONG KONG
THE YOUNG POST
Junior Reporter Elanna describes how and why she and her sister Annalise (below) created exercise videos to help people stay in shape while confined in a small apartment.
INDIA
YOCee.in
Sai Vignesh, 19, took it upon himself to regularly feed the stray dogs that usually rely on scraps from restaurants, which are now closed. Now he has some help.
THE FULL STORY
Story by Sanjitha S.
3 May 2020
MONTENEGRO
UNICEF YOUNG REPORTERS
UNICEF Young Reporter journalists Emir Dresevic, Lara Bulatovic and Jovana Vujovic created videos urging their classmates and friends to help keep grandparents safe and explained some ways to do that (subtitled in English).
27 March 2020
INDIA
THE GLOBAL TIMES
Satyam Mehta produced 100 3-D face shields for the helpers in his neighborhood. And he plans to make more.
Story by Kreetik Thakur
28 April 2020
HONG KONG
The YOUNG POST
Junior Reporter Henrietta describes the project she and a classmate started called “Pets of Hong Kong.” They share the animal adoption stories of pet owners all around the city to try to eliminate the stigma associated with animal adoption.
The most recent blog suggested fun things to do for a dog while social distancing.
29 April 2020
USA
PBS NEWSHOUR STUDENT REPORTING LABS
Exceptionally, we are featuring this video story about people older than teenagers, the twentysomethings of Gateway to the Outdoors based in St. Louis (Missouri) and Chicago (Illinois). They are providing printed learning kits about STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) to students who probably don't have the chance to do much online learning during the pandemic. [VIDEO 00:03:13]
The FULL STORY
Story reported remotely by Angel Delich, Federick V.Pankow Center, Detroit.
27 April 2020
PORTUGAL
YOUNG REPORTERS FOR THE ENVIRONMENT
YRE reporter Diogo Martins notes that amid the misfortune, the Coronavirus pandemic has had some positive effects on the planet, and that it's a good time time to stop and think about what can be done to keep up that impact.
THE FULL STORY
Story by Diogo Martins for YRE,
which is based in Denmark
20 April 2020
USA
THE EAGLE EYE
Florida student Rebecca Blanco-Bulholes and her family are sewing masks for front-line workers as part of the Cupid Covid effort founded by a geriatric care provider.
Story by Ivy Lam
28 April 2020
USA
The LION Online
Students and teachers worked together to produce pillows for chemotherapy patients and quickly moved on to making face masks, more than 500 of them, by the last week of April, with most going to the front-line staff at a children's hospital, and they are not done yet.
Story by Sophia Schultz
23 April 2020
USA
The LION Online
Student government members partnered with a gourmet popcorn company to raise money for hospitals.
Story by Claire Williams
28 April 2020
INDONESIA
KOMPAS MUDA
Muda student newsroom reporter Sekar Heksagara offers some tips for taking a time out from those hours online.
THE FULL STORY
In Indonesian. To read the story in English, select all, then put it into Google Translate.
26 April 2020
INDIA
THE GLOBAL TIMES
Three teenage inventors combined forces to create the prototype robot Prithvi, designed to help caregivers.
Pictured top: Saurav Maheshkar, Nishant Chandra and Aditya Dubey.
Story by Aditi Banerji
Editor, The Global Times
2 May 20
BELGIUM
THE CLIMATE ACADEMY
With most of the world in lockdown, a group of students in Brussels carries on its work to make politicians respect science more of the time, especially the tough realities concerning climate.
THE FULL STORY
Story by Gabrielius Rosinas
2 May 2020
USA
THE EAGLE EYE
Members of student organizations took pen in hand -- literally -- to create fan letters for health workers at hospitals throughout the county and for some elders they already knew.
Story by Ivy Lam
21 April
INDIA
YOCee.in
Shaamil Karim, in his last year at Sishya School, is helping free up city personnel with the chatbot he created for Greater Chennai Corporation. The system of automated chats helps the administration disseminate routine, verified information.
THE FULL STORY
Story by Dhurai A Navaneetham
3 May 2020
INDIA
YOCee.in
First they campaigned against extra loud, dangerous firecrackers. Now two teenage brothers are on a new mission with their mom : Get 100 tons of rice and pulses (edible seeds of plants) to old-age homes, orphanages and pet shelters in Chennai.
THE FULL STORY
Story by Shalini Ramesh
3 May 2020
BANGLADESH
HELLO.BDNEWS24.COM
Al Amin, 18, created an app that helps make sure supplemental rice supplies from the government for the needy during the pandemic are protected against corruption and really go to those intended to receive them.
THE FULL STORY
In Bangla. To read the story in English, select all, then put it into Google Translate.
Story by Sheikh Nasir Uddin
3 May 2020
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