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December 12, 2008: Charitable Gifts
Cows, goats, worms, water wells, and sewing machines are being donated this holiday season to charitable organizations, including Heifer International, World Vision, and Oxfam.
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December 5, 2008: Indiana Doctor in Kenya
Do you want to reconstitute immune systems or do you want to reconstitute lives? We decided to go after lives. We're taking care of the poorest of the poor.
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November 28, 2008: World Hunger and U.S. Aid
As President-elect Barack Obama put his economic team together this week, there were more signs of the magnitude of the financial crisis across the globe.
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October 31, 2008: Haiti Relief
We have a report today from one of the neediest countries on earth -- Haiti in the Caribbean. Fred de Sam Lazaro visited the city of Gonaives, with its desperate people and everywhere -- mud.
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August 29, 2008: Katrina Third Anniversary
We have a story about two people in the vanguard of a historic grassroots movement that's brought hundreds of thousands of volunteers to the region. Its focus has shifted from Katrina's immediate aftermath to broader issues of social justice.
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August 29, 2008: Homeless Preacher
Now, a report about an unusual ministry from one of the West Coast's most blighted corners. It's in East Oakland, California. It's a ministry for the homeless -- and that describes the minister too.
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July 25, 2008: Pediatric AIDS Corps
In Malawi, one out of every four children dies before reaching the age of five. Famine is chronic, and AIDS has left tens of thousands of orphans, often in the care of struggling grandparents.
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July 4, 2008: The 30 Hour Famine
The Christian relief group World Vision has come up with a creative way to help church youth groups understand the problem of world hunger and what they can do about it. It's called "The 30 Hour Famine" and we watched one at Trinity United Methodist Church in Hackettstown, New Jersey.
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June 27, 2008: D’Iberville Rebuilding Celebration
In D'Iberville, Mississippi, near Biloxi, almost three years after Katrina, volunteers from around the country celebrated the rebuilding of nearly a thousand homes.
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Now, back to the global food crisis. Joining me today is Tony Hall, the former Ohio congressman who was also the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations humanitarian agencies in Rome.
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