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Starting in January 2011, iEARN, PBS Newshour Extra and UNICEF partnered to support students to report on the Millennium Development Goals. Students from Turkey, Pakistan, India and U.S. successfully completed the WYN reporter certification course and reported on the state of the MDGs in their communities. Mentors from PBS NewsHour Extra and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism Graduate acted as their advisors. Here is the first report from our MDG Reporting Labs:

IZMIR, Turkey -- I was in Mardin, the city of civilizations. It is a magical city. Its culture, its history and its geography are fascinating. I was on the other side of Turkey. It was a big adventure for me. I explored a new culture, a different city and met lots of wonderful people.

Watch the first part of a series of discussions with journalist Stacie Chan from Redwood City Patch. In this interview, the WYN reporting team at Peapod Academy in California, U.S., asked her about hyerlocal news.

WYN Reporter Yasser Alaa provides a glimpse into life in Egypt through his photographs.

iEARN and ICFJ hosted an online discussion with youth journalists from around the world to mark World Press Freedom Day on May 3.

August 9, 2009

Brasilia, BRAZIL -- Child labor in Brasilia is becoming more common day by day. Children work mostly on the streets selling candies, flowers, stickers and other small items. Some perform services, such as watching over cars or washing them in public parking lots. Others shine shoes.

Brasília has 2 million inhabitants and is the city with highest per capita income in the country, according to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics. Research by the Federal Policy Department shows that about 7,512 children are now working on the streets.

Cluj Napoca, ROMANIA -- Social networking sites have become one of the most popular means of communication among young people in Romania. A group of 20 teenagers was interviewed to investigate how they use sites like hi5, MySpace and Facebook. While most of them said they enjoyed meeting people on these sites, they were also cautious about privacy issues and the amount of information they shared with people online. 

FERGHANA, Uzbekistan -- The Aral Sea borders two countries, Kazakhstan to the north and Uzbekistan to the south. The government of Uzbekistan has taken steps to preserve the shrinking sea, including water management policies and conservation technologies. It is also participating in the International Fund for Saving Aral Sea, whose other members are Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan. 

And teenagers in the Ferghana region of Uzbekistan are pushing for better ways to irrigate crops and to conserve the use of water in their houses.

BRASILIA, Brazil -- The 49th anniversary of Brazil’s capital city, on April 21, filled the Ministries Esplanade with cultural attractions, outdoor activities, and more than 1 million celebrants. And the daylong celebration, which lasted well into the night, turned the expansive garden surrounded by government buildings into a massive rubbish heap.