Mar 18 Preview: Peru Profits From Resources, Geography By Talea Miller Ray Suarez recently traveled to Peru for a series of reports that will examine the country's health issues as well its economy -- including its evolution from a widely erratic marketplace with a devalued currency to a more… Continue reading
Mar 18 Watch In Ethiopia, a Daily Struggle for Clean Water In the first in a series of collaborative reports about water problems around the world, Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on the shortage of potable water in Ethiopia and how the effort required to maintain existing watering points affects millions… Continue watching
Mar 10 Haiti's Government: What Should Its Next Moves Be? By Talea Miller As Haitian President Rene Preval met with President Barack Obama Wednesday to discuss the aftermath of January's devastating earthquake, the PBS NewsHour asked three experts how Haiti's government should proceed with the massive task of recovery. Continue reading
Mar 08 Ray Suarez: Peru Making Gains Despite Global Economic Crisis By Talea Miller Just back from a reporting trip to Peru, Ray Suarez sat down with Hari Sreenivasan to share his observations of the South American country, which is experiencing economic growth despite the global recession. He previews his upcoming series on Peru's… Continue reading
Mar 05 Watch Droughts Feed Hunger Crisis and Violence in Sudan Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on the humanitarian crisis in the African nation of Sudan, where drought and food shortages are contributing to violence, political instability and death. Continue watching
Mar 04 Children in Sudan Rely on Field Hospital for Food By Larisa Epatko In February, NewsHour special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro and producer Nicole See visited a Doctors Without Borders hospital in a remote part of southern Sudan, where patients often walk for miles to get treatment. Continue reading
Feb 26 Lima Women Find Opportunity in Knitting Circle By Talea Miller LIMA, PERU -- Each afternoon, in the Santa Rosa slum built into the steep hillside surrounding Lima, a group of 15 women meet to knit. Surrounded by spools of alpaca yarn, they take up their needles and piece together scarves… Continue reading
Feb 18 Watch U.N. Under-Secretary General Updates Needs in Haiti Nearly 600,000 people are still without shelter as the rains begin to fall in Port-au-Prince. Ray Suarez speaks to Under-Secretary General John Holmes of the United Nations about Haiti's long journey of rebuilding ahead and the state of the relief… Continue watching
Feb 18 Watch Tough, Low-Cost Wheelchairs Needed in Haiti Spencer Michels reports on efforts in San Francisco to design and build heavy-duty, low-cost wheelchairs for use in the rough terrain of Haiti and around the third world. Continue watching
Feb 16 Haiti Quake Propels Use of Twitter as Disaster-Relief Tool By Larisa Epatko Kate Starbird, a graduate student at the University of Colorado at Boulder, studies the use of Twitter during crises. When she and the other UC researchers heard about the massive earthquake in Haiti on Jan. 12, all they could do… Continue reading