World Nov 14 From college courses to cultivating local agribusiness in Kenya It's not an overstatement to say it gets frigid in Boston. So the company Mike Behan started while attending Northeastern University began by selling slouchy knit hats and scarves. It has since grown to support its main mission of helping…
World Nov 11 In typhoon-ravaged Tacloban, ‘no place to bury the dead’ After one of the most powerful typhoons in recorded history struck the Philippines over the weekend, aid organizations and the government scrambled to provide residents with their most basic needs of food and water on Monday. Meanwhile, survivors lined the…
World Nov 11 Philippine city of Tacloban at the center of typhoon devastation Typhoon Haiyan swept across the Philippines in November 2013, wiping away houses and leaving survivors in search of food and water. View photos of one of the hardest hit cities, Tacloban, on the eastern coast.
World Oct 25 The 37-year-old refugee situation you know nothing about POLISARIO CAMPS, Algeria -- Rabab Deid has lived most of her life in an isolated camp in the windy, moonscape desert of western Algeria, alongside 150,000 other refugees.
World Oct 25 Should Sahrawis return to war with Morocco? 4 young refugees speak up DAKHLA CAMP, Algeria | For decades, the Western Sahara liberation movement, known as the Polisario Front, has been locked in a struggle for independence from Morocco. It's not a battle of guns but of wills, Polisario officials say.
World Oct 24 OneVoice uses kid-powered music for social good Robbie Schaefer, guitarist and songwriter for the U.S. folk-rock band Eddie from Ohio, founded OneVoice in 2010 to bring children from different continents together through music. He soon realized it was an ever-evolving process.
World Oct 11 Dispatch from Algeria: Watching movies in a desert refugee camp DAKHLA CAMP, Algeria | Two girls, Kalzum Abdlhai in a black-and-white jumper and Julita Mohamedsalej in a hot pink sparkly T-shirt, are best friends. Both 13, they are into clothes and shoes like many others in their age group.
World Oct 04 Visiting Algeria’s refugee community Last winter, the PBS NewsHour went to Western Sahara, a disputed territory of Morocco in northern Africa, to learn about the slow-burning conflict that pits Moroccans against the Sahrawis seeking their independence. This year, we travel to a Sahrawi refugee…
World Oct 03 Reality show targets youth in violence-rattled Iraq You don't often hear "reality show" and "Iraq" in the same sentence. But one that takes place in the Middle Eastern country is aimed at promoting diversity and peacekeeping among youth.
World Sep 30 World Pulse’s ‘web’ of women keeps growing In her early 20s, Jensine Larsen was working as a freelance journalist in Burma and the Amazon region of South America, and learned that many of the stories affecting women weren't being reported in the media. She then realized that…