May 06 Sleeping Bag Coat for the Homeless Finds Fans in the Fashion World EmbedVideo(6341, 482, 304); A few years ago, Veronika Scott, now 23, set up a coat manufacturing business in a graffiti-covered building in an old Irish manufacturing neighborhood of Detroit. She had a few sewing machines and a… Continue reading
Apr 26 Maternal Health Hotline Helps Malawians Stay Connected By Imani Cheers [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdcn5fN8mnc&w=480&h=270] Doreen Namasala has been a community health worker for over a decade in rural Malawi, a small landlocked country in southeast Africa. With a population of roughly 15 million, an estimated 60 percent of women report having… Continue reading
Apr 25 How Cell Phones Are Helping Fight Malaria By Imani Cheers Community health workers receive new cell phones as incentives to continue their malaria rapid reporting. Photo by Imani Cheers/PBS NewsHour. LIVINGSTONE, Zambia --Tokozile Ngwenya-Kangombe, a project coordinator with Akros Research, knows first-hand how dangerous malaria can be for… Continue reading
Apr 23 Watch Pervasive Preference for Baby Boys Over Girls Prevails Among Parents in India Pervasive Preference for Baby Boys Over Girls Prevails Among Parents in India… Continue watching
Apr 17 Watch Late Bloomers Become First-Time Entrepreneurs Late Bloomers Become First-Time Entrepreneurs… Continue watching
Apr 02 A World Tour to Meet a Florist, a Barber and Other Microloan Entrepreneurs By Larisa Epatko They live continents apart -- Symon in Kenya and Bo in Cambodia -- but they have a common thread. Both started small businesses with microloans they received through the networking website Kiva. Continue reading
Apr 01 Watch An Awakening in India to Scourge of Violence Against Women Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from India on the country's efforts to tackle the issue of violence against women. This response comes after the gang rape and murder of a female medical student in Delhi last year. Continue watching
Mar 21 Deepa Gangwani: Fomenting Change for Indian Trash Collectors EmbedVideo(6003, 482, 304); Deepa Gangwani explains how her group Together as One field-tested a cheaper cook stove. A shocking incident involving her maid and a trash collector helped set Deepa Gangwani on her quest to help the poor… Continue reading
Mar 08 In Democratic Republic of Congo, Women Face Deep-Seated Bias By Larisa Epatko Anonciata, a 30-something mother of four, survived a brutal raid on her town in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, but not without injury. Continue reading
Feb 28 Watch In Turkey, Economic Opportunities for Women Coincide With More Domestic Abuse As Turkish Society Changes, Domestic Violence Increases… Continue watching