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The United Nations recently set eight Millennium Development Goals to be met by the year 2015. This video explores each of these goals in different parts of the world.
Immigrants living in the USA send millions of dollars back to El Salvador each year. This video investigates their lives and their money's impact on their home villages.
This video explores how the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Zambia is causing food shortages, destroying families, and undermining future development.
Yemen is one of the poorest, driest countries in the world. This video investigates how its government and communities are working to improve the lives of the Yemeni people.
This video follows the Danube River through Eastern Europe, examining both Communism's legacy and the current conflict between commercial interests and environmental concerns.
In St. Petersburg, Russia, thousands of homeless children live on the streets. This video looks at their world through the experiences of Yuriy, 11, and Max, 13.
China has drastically reduced the number of its citizens living in poverty over the past few decades. This video examines the policies responsible for this change.
This video provides a vivid picture of the slums of Mumbai (Bombay), India, and investigates efforts to rehabilitate these impoverished communities.
This video explores how groups in two Indian statesÑfarmers in Karnataka and women in Andhra PradeshÑare finding new ways to lift themselves out of poverty.
In this video, Tran Thuy Linh of Hanoi, Vietnam describes how her neighborhood has changed from an agricultural village to an urbanized part of this rapidly developing city.
