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Elderly Nana Chinegowe is left to care for her three orphaned grandchildren. Other than occasional casual work as a day laborer, she has no mean to support them and they often go without food. This film tells the story of Malawi's ultra poor, and investigates the Millennium Development Goals of reducing maternal mortality, hunger, and poverty.
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Welcome to Beverly Hills, California, where some of America's wealthiest citizens have created their own personal versions of paradise. But don't get too comfortable-this program whisks viewers off to Mexico City and Lilongwe, Malawi, as well, showing how different life can be in all three parts of the world and how globalization has amplified the economic gaps between them. In addition, the film provides an extensive analysis of the development of...
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Kenneth Kaunda remains a dominant figure on the Zambian and African landscape. One of the first to break the silence of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, he has been an outspoken voice for Africa and has been an arch critic of the European colonial enterprise. In this program, he gives us his current assessment of the country, the continent, and of the Millennium Development Goals. Zambia remains one of the poorest countries in the world with almost two-thirds...
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Stereotypes tell us it's easy to spot the homeless-after all, life on the street tends to leave a mark on people. But is a "homeless profile" really meaningful? In today's economy a man in a business suit might well be living in his car; and besides, to those in society's upper echelons, homelessness is often invisible. This program offers a profound exploration of homelessness, focusing on factors like addiction, financial hardship, mental illness,...
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Paul Niehaus, President and Co-founder of GiveDirectly, talks with Reason TV's Anthony Fisher about how his organization's new ideas in giving are changing the way people think about charity. The non-profit was founded in 2008 and is designed to help people living in extreme povery through cash transfers via mobile phones. The recipients use their mobile phones to receive the money, which they are allowed to spend as they wish. This philosophy varies...
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George and Esther struggle to raise a family in Africa's largest slum. Both are HIV positive but in a way that doesn't count in this doc. HIV has become normal and that's how George and Esther deal with it. This film is rather about love in the middle of a war-torn slum. A film about being African in today's Africa and how, at the lowest denominator, people deal with hardship and can still find life a joy. Citizen Oketch does not demand we pity George's...
10) Millennium Goals
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In 2000 the world's leaders came together and established eight goals aimed at making the developing world a better place for future generations. These time-bound targets addressed extreme poverty, hunger and disease, and promoted gender equality, education, and environmental sustainability. In 2015, 15 years on the United Nations is reassessing the goals and laying out its future ambitions. This film travels across the world, from kids hustling to...
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This film explores how Indris Seid Yimer and Emyet Assen Woraki's lives have been transformed since 1984, when their Wollo area community was engulfed in a famine described by BBC journalist Michael Buerk as "the closest thing to hell on Earth." Featuring contributions from entrepreneur Samuel Alemu and financier Ermyas Amelga and showcasing the UNESCO World Heritage site in Lalibela.
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This Prelinger Archives film visits poor areas of the United States, particularly hard-hit agricultural areas, and discusses social and economic programs encompassed by the "War on Poverty." Viewers encounter struggling farmers who share their perspectives on how and why poverty is so common among their communities, what they can and can't do about it, and what their hopes for the future are. The film also includes commentary from community activists...
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This Prelinger Archives film visits poor areas of the United States, particularly hard-hit agricultural areas, and discusses social and economic programs encompassed by the "War on Poverty." This second part continues to focus on information about school and daycare programs helping to give poor children greater advancement. Viewers visit a school program helping teenagers who are working on a third- or fourth-grade level and a parent who has more-or-less...
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In the shadow of an increasingly interconnected and globalized economy, many of the world's poor are worse off than ever before. This classic documentary travels to Tanzania, Mali, India, Brazil, and Bosnia to present some practical solutions offered by poor people themselves as they face the challenge of improving their living conditions. Slum residents who have formed community activist groups explain why having sewage systems and permanent housing...
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The numbers alone are stunning: 8 million inhabitants, 70 percent of whom live below the poverty line; a life expectancy of 50 years; a 65 percent illiteracy rate; and a 70 percent unemployment rate. Such is the recent population in Haiti, which ironically had its origins cast in optimism: the Haitians were the first people to abolish slavery in 1797 and establish a black republic. Yet the following years have brought the island a succession of violence,...
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Vietnam, one of the few Marxist-Leninist states, is still standing. The Communist Party of Vietnam faithfully represents the rights and interests of the working class and the nation. Just over thirty years after the country was devastated by war, leaving between one and two million dead, its economy is storming ahead. In 1993, poverty levels were at 58%; now that figure has dropped to 12%.
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Economist Jeffrey Sachs has pointed out that for most of history, "everybody in the world was poor." As societies grew richer, they formed different attitudes toward poverty. The Greeks thought it played an essential role in society, whereas the Chinese developed sophisticated programs to prevent famine and extreme need. And though the Industrial Revolution promised an end to hunger, it may have ended up widening the gap between rich and poor. This...
19) Godforsaken
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In Karachi, Pakistan's poverty-stricken port city, organized criminals peddle heroin to the weak and vulnerable, while corrupt government officials line their pockets. Half a million heroin addicts, many of them children, are left to live in squalor on the streets, often prostituting themselves for money. Ignored by the government and ostracized by their communities, they are an underclass that this religious society would rather ignore.
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In the hills of Central Appalachia, up winding, mountain roads, is a place where families face unthinkable living conditions. Isolated pockets here have three times the national poverty rate, an epidemic of drug abuse, and the shortest life span in the nation. In this program, Diane Sawyer travels to the Appalachian Mountains to report on children who live in rural poverty, and in particular, four who are determined to find a better life. For nearly...