Nicholas Kristof offers a free trip to Africa
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof is offering to take one college student to Africa with him. You can read the details here.
Are you a university student with a yearning to see the best and worst of the world? Are you (reasonably) unruffled if you’re dive-bombed by insects the size of small planes while bouncing over ruts toward an interview with a warlord?
Then it’s time to apply for my 2010 “win-a-trip” contest. For the fourth time, I’ll take a student with me on a reporting trip to Africa to cover issues of global poverty — and their solutions.
It won’t be comfortable or glamorous. Maybe we’ll interview a president, but far more time will be spent squatting in thatch-roof huts, listening to villagers. Within The Times, my colleagues say that first prize is one trip with Kristof, second prize is two trips.
This contest reflects my conviction that the best way to open minds and hearts to the world’s challenges is to see them, hear them, smell them. Readers ask why I tilt at windmills like malaria, sex trafficking or maternal mortality. The answer has to do, in part, with my university days — not my time in class, but the far more educational experiences I had backpacking around the world on vacations.
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