New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, whose beat includes poverty, sex trafficking, and disease in the developing world, is holding a contest to find an American student to join him on a reporting trip to Africa.

He’s done this twice before, taking a journalism student to the Central African Republic and a medical student to Rwanda and the Congo. That second trip resulted in a documentary, “Reporter,” that will be shown on HBO later this year.

You can learn more about the contest in Kristof’s column and in his blog. Instructions for entering can be found here.

Update: Kristof recently wrote a column arguing that “sweatshops are only a symptom of poverty, not a cause,” and that “the best way to help people in the poorest countries isn’t to campaign against sweatshops but to promote manufacturing there.” Critiques of his stance can be found in letters to the editor here, as well as in this piece at TPM. Kristof expanded on his argument a bit further in this blogpost, which has attracted a bunch of comments.