Interactive Narratives

The Ethiopian Mekane Yesus Church owns and runs Aira Hospital - a small but by Ethiopian standards well equipped health facility - situtated in the far western part of rural Ethiopia. Despite financial hardship and lack of the most basic resources the dedicated surgeon Dr. Erik Erichsen and his team of local colleagues try as hard as they possibly can to serve some of the poorest people in the world More…

"Reframing Mexico" looks at the Mexico City beyond the violent headlines. The site features 12 short video documentaries and multiple interactive features. Topics include a single mother raising children in a large metro dump, a carpenter whose illegal immigration to the US ended when the American dream eluded him, a disabled father overcoming stigma and discrimination, and others. Interactive features include a border crossing game, a "build your own wrestler" feature, and more. This project is a collaboration between UNC Photojournalism and Monterrey Tec. More…

"Reframing Mexico" looks at the Mexico City beyond the violent headlines. The site features 12 short video documentaries and multiple interactive features. Topics include a single mother raising children in a large metro dump, a carpenter whose illegal immigration to the US ended when the American dream eluded him, a disabled father overcoming stigma and discrimination, and others. Interactive features include a border crossing game, a "build your own wrestler" feature, and more. This project is a collaboration between UNC Photojournalism and Monterrey Tec. More…

Streetlight is a web documentary about street children in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The story documents the work carried out by the Danish-Ethiopian NGO Hope For Children and it is presented in full screen Flash. The Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa is home to thousands of migrant workers - many of them children - who have been brought in from rural areas to work as slaves, especially in prostitution and in the weaving industry. Ethiopia deals with a variety of serious social-economic problems and many foreign NGOs and missionaries therefore operate in the country. More…

WSJ India presents an interactive project that records the challenges and opportunities that companies and government face as rural india becomes a much larger part of the country's economic infrastructure. More…

For almost a century Jharia coal fields have been on fire in the Indian state of Jharkhand, due to poor mining techniques. Many of the people who live on the burning fields survive by collecting coal illegally. The coal is burned and then transported to nearby markets for very little money. A resettlement plan has been put in place, but the area's residents are reluctant to move to safer grounds because the coal earns them their livelihood... More…

Dharavi in Mumbai is Asia's biggest slum and the location for 'Slumdog Millionaire.’ A new development plan may force many of its residents to move. More…

Despite India's explosive economic growth, extreme poverty is still a daily reality for millions. More…

The year 2008 has witnessed a major shift in the way people across the world live: For the first time in human history, more people live in cities than in rural areas. This triumph of the urban, however, does not necessarily represent progress, as the number of people living in urban slums - often an abject conditions - will soon exceed 1 billion. More…

Bucharest below ground is a full screen web documentary about street children in Romania. This cutting edge multimedia presentation uses dynamic images that scale automatically according to the viewer's screen size and/or resolution. More…