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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 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.
Click on icons at left to see the two other showcases of stories.
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
PORTUGAL
YOUNG REPORTERS FOR THE ENVIRONMENT
What's really happening on the virus front line, and what should everybody else be doing now that restrictions are easing a bit in some places? The key, says nurse Lurdes Silva, is to keep doing smart things to stay safe..
We are including this story in the project, though no-one is a teenager. The reporter, Lara, is 12 and her interview subject is 28. You'll understand why we made this exception after you see the video.
The video is in Portuguese with English subtitles. We've included in in two showcases to make sure you see it.
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INDIA
YOCee.IN
Tharansia creates art with recycled bottles to raise money for the Tamil Nadu State Chief Minister's Public Relief Fund that helps the needy during COVID 19 in the state.
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Story by Harreni R.
BEIJING
BEIJING CITY INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
Reporter Qinglan Du tells how she and the other teenage members of the Jerusalem Youth Chorus reached out from confinement to celebrities to join the now viral performance of "Home."
Founded in 2012, the choir is program for peace that includes both Arab and Jewish youth singers.
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INDIA
YOCee.in
Tejas Gopalan,a 19-year-old design student, noticed that wearing a mask regularly caused his father to have an irritation, then an infection behind his ears. So he designed a way to keep the straps away from ears. Now, Tejas gets orders for his ear protectors from hospitals and is supplying them in bulk.
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Story by Dhurai A Navaneetham
See also "Irish teens helping? Just look around" for a do-it-yourself solution for sore ears (last item).
HONG KONG
SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST
YOUNG POST
Friends in NYC and Hong Kong worked together to buy and deliver 2000 masks to personnel at Brooklyn hospitals.
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Story by Junior Reporter Joanne To
USA
YR MEDIA
Avi Schiffmann, 17, created a coronavirus tracker, nCoV2019.live, back in December 2019, before most world leaders had even acknowledged the virus.
Now his site has 83 million viewers and counting and has been an essential tool for people looking for straightforward, unbiased information about the virus. He talks about what's next, and not.
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Story by Liz Trill
HONG KONG
SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST
THE YOUNG POST
Arhan Chhabra of Hong Kong describes how the volunteering he did in an Indian classroom that used only blackboards inspired him to create AppVidya digital education tools for tablets -- just before online classes became the new normal around the world.
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BEIJING
BEIJING CITY INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
Reporter Linda Huang explores the impetus behind the short film "Germophobe," which was created by two students from Beijing World Youth Academy and whose characters explore the the paranoia and apprehension created by the COVID 19.
The filmmakers' aim was also to raise awareness through a fictional story about how to calmly deal with the reality of the pandemic.
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INDIA
THE GLOBAL TIMES
Student robotics specialist Mihir Vardhan wanted to help the people he saw in the neighborhood who were exposed to the virus, so started making 3-D shields for them.
Now the effort has grown beyond his wildest expectations.
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Story by Resham Talwar
USA
MNDAYBFAST.COM
Reporter Sofia Gutierrez Boker thought her MNDAY BFAST blog of food photos and recipes from her Mexican, German and Panamanian heritage was just going document how she made breakfast every Monday morning to encourage people to kickstart the week with creativity and productivity.
Then COVID-19 hit, and since then she's helping people make breakfast every day, "which feels like a Monday" she says.
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INDIA
YOCee.in
Teenagers with special needs build skills while helping create crucial equipment for front-line warriors during the pandemic, thanks to V- Excel’s Vocation Training Unit.
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Story by Adhiti, age 13
USA
YR MEDIA
Matthew Jason tells how he and his family are converting traditional Jewish headwear (known as kippahs or yarmulkes) into hundreds of face masks for the homeless population of Houston, Texas. [VIDEO 00:01:38]
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INDIA
THE GLOBAL TIMES
Amity International School student Harshaa Kawatra (at right in photo), along with her classmates Charvi Mendiratta and Isha Agarwal wanted to encourage and help people to download the government's app that is intended to help track COVID-19 cases. Now, they've assisted more than 1000 people to do so.
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Story by Nalin Jayaswal & Suhani Malik
IRELAND
MOVILLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
The class assignment was to report about teenagers in the community who were making a difference. Not surprisingly, it was pretty easy.
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Story by Fionnuala De Brún
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