Dec 04 Watch Long After Earthquake, Haiti Still Feels Devastating Effects of Cholera Epidemic Long After Earthquake, Haiti Still Feels Devastating Effects of Cholera Epidemic… Continue watching
Nov 28 How Banana Fibers Keep Women Working in Developing Nations By Cat Wise Photo of Elizabeth Scharpf courtesy of Sustainable Health Enterprises. Harvard Business School and Kennedy School of Government graduate Elizabeth Scharpf, 35, appears confident with a warm smile. These attributes no doubt come in handy when Scharpf travels the… Continue reading
Nov 19 Profile: Jessamyn Rodriguez Cooks Up Job Opportunities at Hot Bread Kitchen By David Pelcyger EmbedVideo(4995, 482, 304); The smell of fresh baked bread is unmistakable at 1590 Park Avenue in New York City, but the kitchen has a social mission cooking as well. Jessamyn Rodriguez opened Hot Bread Kitchen in… Continue reading
Oct 31 How Can Human Trafficking Still Exist? Answers to Viewers’ Questions By Larisa Epatko After a report aired on the NewsHour about what's being done to counter human trafficking in the Philippines, we invited you the viewers to send us your questions about the problem in the United States and abroad. Continue reading
Oct 17 Watch In the Philippines, a Fight to End Human Trafficking and Offer Refuge In the Philippines, a Fight to End Human Trafficking and Offer Refuge… Continue watching
Oct 17 Profile: Mark Ruiz Merges Big and Small Business in the Philippines [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFiNZKsnNfo&w=480&h=270] A can of sardines inspired Mark Ruiz -- a middle-class, well-educated Filipino from Quezon City, just outside Manila -- to begin his road to social entrepreneurship. Shortly before leaving a seven-year position at Unilever in 2006, Ruiz,… Continue reading
Oct 17 Profile: Illac Diaz Brings Clean, Cheap Light into Filipino Homes By Fred de Sam Lazaro 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… Continue reading
Sep 25 Helping Where ‘There Are More Cell Phones Than Toothbrushes’ By Fred de Sam Lazaro 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… Continue reading
Sep 20 In Dominican Republic, Taking Pictures and Promoting Understanding By Larisa Epatko Wander Yon, 21, an aspiring singer who lives in the Dominican Republic, said he knew right away he took the winning photo of what life was like in his sugarcane working town. Continue reading
Sep 13 Watch Microlending Makes Jump to Developed World, Funding Small U.S. Entrepreneurs Microlending Makes Jump to Developed World, Funding Small U.S. Entrepreneurs… Continue watching