Our Religion for Change Fellowship trains and supports journalists in producing solutions-oriented journalism that document how people in Nigeria and the rest of Africa address social problems based on their faith and spiritual convictions
We launched the fellowship in late 2023 with initial support from the Center for Religion and Civic Culture (CRCC) at the University of Southern California through its global engaged spirituality project. The CRCC’s 2019-2023 project studied the role of faith and spirituality in motivating people to give themselves to solving social problems around the world.
The first edition of our Religion for Change Fellowship took place between December 2023 and July 2024. In the first cohort, we trained 10 selected journalists for two months and provided grant funding to five of them to produce one story each.
The fellows explored themes ranging from drugs to education and health. Below are the five stories produced from the cohort:
- How a 26-year-old Christian makes “scholars” of Islamic street
- Doctor missionaries and long tale of leprosy in Nigeria
- Hope on wheels at the ‘beautiful gate’: How a polio survivor lifts others
- In Nigeria’s drug jungles, drug wraps bow to evangelist’s rap songs
- Nigeria’s ‘hero priest’ fighting poverty with community education interventions
Applications for the next cohort of the yearly fellowship will open in November 2023.
For information on how to support the fellowship, send an email to innocent.e@primeprogressng.com
