Allison Shelley is a journalist who traveled to Nepal to report on the crisis of chaupadi. Chaupadi's are huts where women that are on their period must stay. Their families throw them in these little huts until they are no longer on it. A women is considered dirty when she is on her period. These chaupadi huts are usually the same place where the animals stay. A lot of them are just holes in the ground. The picture to the right shows a 14 year old girl staying in her chaupadi house. A lot of these girls were raped and even killed while staying in these chaupadis.
Melissa Turley attended George Washington University when she won the Pulitzer Center Prize. She was given a chance to travel to a place where she though was under reported. She chose to go to South Africa and report on the gender gap. Women in South Africa face the problems of not being equal to men. Lesbian women are always being targets of hate crimes. These women fear for their lives if anyone realizes that she is a lesbian. One lady was raped three times by a group of men. She reported the incident to the police every time, but the fact that she a lesbian nothing was ever done. These women start losing hope when no one listens. There is now a LGBTI community that holds meeting to help lesbian women deal with these problems.
Devon Smith is the first student at Westchester Community College to win the Pulitzer Center Prize. She will get the chance as Melissa Turley did to travel to a place that needs to be reported on. She has chosen to travel to Ireland to report on two religions, Catholics and Protestants. She will report on how these two religions are faced with problems. Good luck Devon!
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