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Mary Finch is an essayist, Newspaper Columnist, and a poet living in Deer River, Minnesota. In this piece, Finch explains the role of a Christmas t...
- Added: Jan 22, 2013
- Length: 02:25
Fifteen-year-old Ashley hasn't seen her mom in a long time.
- Added: May 05, 2012
- Length: 04:20
Reporter Laura Spero lives in New York City, but she travels to Nepal every year. There, a single winding road connects Nepal’s capital, Katmandu,...
- Added: Apr 16, 2010
- Length: 03:58
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has promised an extensive package of relief supplies and equipment to earthquake ravaged Chile. The temblo...
- Added: Mar 05, 2010
- Length: 02:26
Thousands of children in Haiti’s capitol city, Port au Prince, beg on the streets to survive. Most street kids are invisible to those passing by. ...
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- Added: Dec 10, 2009
- Length: 04:33
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The U.N. estimates three million Colombians have been displaced from their homes because of the ongoing war for land between guerrilla fighters, pa...
- Added: Oct 23, 2009
- Length: 04:47
13-year old Mamadou Barry had to strike out on his own at an early age. Unlike other kids, Mamadou has no parents sacrificing for his future. He’...
- Added: Sep 25, 2009
- Length: 02:19
The town of Mererani in northern Tanzania is the only place in the world where tanzanite is found. This deep blue gemstone is said to be a thousan...
- Added: May 01, 2009
- Length: 02:08
In the Sudanese capital Khartoum, scores of babies are abandoned every year.That’s mostly because they are born out of wedlock, but sometimes becau...
- Added: Mar 26, 2009
- Length: 02:55
The International Labor Organization estimates nearly a quarter of a billion children around the world work in some form of full-time employment. ...
- Added: Jan 30, 2009
- Length: 03:30
