World Nov 02 Health Care Workers Brace for New Cholera Outbreaks in Haiti PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Hurricane Sandy might have saved its fullest fury for America's mid-Atlantic coast, but its earlier blows in the Caribbean wreaked havoc in Haiti. Already struggling to recover from the effects of Hurricane Isaac in August,…
World Oct 17 Profile: Illac Diaz Brings Clean, Cheap Light into Filipino Homes Photo of Illac Diaz by Fred de Sam Lazaro/PBS NewsHour Filipino Illac Diaz began a project called Liter of Light to do two things in his home country: provide light to those who need it and recycle otherwise…
Arts Sep 25 Helping Where 'There Are More Cell Phones Than Toothbrushes' Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney was one of the speakers at the Clinton Global Initiative meeting in New York City. Photo by Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images. NEW YORK CITY | The annual Clinton Global Initiative is intended to bring together…
Arts Apr 03 One Acre Fund: a Nonprofit's Business Approach to Helping Small Farmers Maurice and Joyce Soita were able to send their four children to school after becoming One Acre Fund members. Photo by Fred de Sam Lazaro. Most international aid agencies are headquartered in major cities: New York, Geneva or…
Nation Mar 19 Final Message From HEAL Africa's 'Mama Lyn': Tell Them Not to Cry Lyn Lusi (right) with some of the women who received help from HEAL Africa. Photo by Nicole See for the NewsHour. HEAL Africa co-founder Lyn Lusi, who died Saturday from cancer at age 62, spent most of her…
World Mar 07 Anonciata's Story: Seeking Healing After Congo's Brutal Civil War Photo of Anonciata by Fred de Sam Lazaro for the PBS NewsHour. Few nations are more endowed with mineral resources than the Democratic Republic of Congo and none has endured a more staggering human cost in the scramble for…
World Aug 30 Brazil's Shifting Views of Church, Abortion and Lifestyle Family in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Photo by Nicole See. Brazil's plummeting birth rate would seem like a triumph for the country's women's movement, which has long fought for information about, and access to, contraception. Today, in what remains the…
Health Aug 12 In Senegal, a Movement to Reject Female Circumcision Watch the full episode. See more Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly. This segment originally aired on PBS' Religion & Ethics Newsweekly. The practice of "female circumcision" is…
Health Aug 04 Reporter's Notebook: India's New Baby Boom Indian surrogate mothers. Photo by Fred de Sam Lazaro Thursday on the NewsHour, you'll see an excerpt of the film "Made in India," which documents the journey of an infertile American couple and their Indian surrogate. It's part of…
World Jul 15 Karachi and Mumbai: A Tale of Two Megacities Abdul Sattar Edhi works with the poor in Karachi, Pakistan. Photo by Nicole See/NewsHour It was a week that saw spasms of terrorist violence in the financial capitals of Pakistan and India, and quite by coincidence -- on unrelated…