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In St. Louis, Group Tries To Help Poor Students

In St. Louis, Group Tries To Help Poor Students

Judy Woodruff looks at efforts to make college a reality for low-income students, followed by an excerpt of an education discussion at a town hall meeting.

Coffee Company Helps Its Growers

Coffee Company Helps Its Growers

Freelance and contract workers have organized in order to afford health insurance and other benefits.

Freelancers Union Forms Needed Safety Net

Freelancers

Freelance and contract workers have organized in order to afford health insurance and other benefits.

Bead For Life Brings Hundreds of Ugandans Out of Poverty

Beads in Uganda

A program that helps Ugandans sell beads in America has brought hundreds of families out of extreme poverty through a woman-to-woman network focused on sales at house parties and a Web store. Spencer Michels reports on the program and the people it helps.

Detroit Program Provides Job Training, Hope in Tough Times

Activist Works to Help Ease Haiti's Hunger Crisis

Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on Focus: Hope founder Eleanor Josaitis's effort to bring racial healing and economic opportunity to Detroit's disadvantaged.

Covering efforts to tackle the world's biggest challenges in the smallest of ways.
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Oct. 28, 2009     |    Fred de Sam Lazaro takes a look at how one organization in the Southeast Asian island of Borneo is trading health care for rainforest preservation.

Reporter's Notebook: Borneo's Vanishing Forests

Related Photos: Under-told Stories: View photos from the reporting trip

 
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Eye Hospital in India Helps Restore Sight

Sept. 14, 2009     |    NewsHour correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on how India is trying to feed its growing population while maintaining the environment.

Related Video: Remembering the Founder of the Green Revolution

 
 
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Eye Hospital in India Helps Restore Sight

April 30, 2009     |   Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from India on one hospital's efforts to help those with eye disease.

 

 
 
 
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