Videos Tagged: poverty

Social
homeless population
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No, this is not a story about beef tenderloin, one of the best meat dishes you can get. No, this is a story about the homeless population in America. Despite America being one of the most democr...

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Lifestyle
senegal
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The term Wolof actually means “Our Boat”, which is where the name for the country of Senegal comes from. Covering an area of almost 200,000 square kilometers, Senegal has an estimated popula...

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Personal Triumphs
powerty living
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Can you imagine living every day without clean water, little food and poor shelter? There are 1.1 billion people in the world living with just one dollar per day. That is life for Chino, and hundred...

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Medicine
Welcome to the World
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Welcome to the world is an expressive, thrilling and now and again unsettling view of birth around the globe. Annually, 130 million children are being born. Their life chances are a lottery relying u...

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Environmental
Drop in the Ocean? Ireland and Climate Change.
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Environmental change is the greatest danger to the existence of mankind today, but the political apparatus is refusing to provide a rapid response in order to prevent these climate changes. The grav...

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Social
The End of Poverty
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Global poverty does not just happen. It started with slavery, military conquest and colonization resulted in the confiscation of land, minerals and forced labor.Today, the problem persists because of ...

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Social
Poverty in Chicago
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Directed and produced by Brian Schodorf this film is an exploration of how the drug affects the homeless population suffer from society as a whole with exclusive interviews with ke...

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Academy Award-winning director Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Taxi to the Dark Side) presents his viwe of how the gap between rich and poor Americans is so cont...

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Social
Mathilde’s Misses: 18 months with Miss Homeless
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Mathilde organizes the world’s very first “Miss Homeless” pageant in Brussels. Fifteen women compete for the main prize: one year rent-free housing.”Mathilde’s Misses” ...

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From Live Aid to Make Poverty History, celebrities have become activists against poverty. Bob Geldof and Bono have been the most prominent voices advocating on behalf of the poor. ...

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Sports
Box Girl
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Started in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya, Box Girls Kenya is an organization that looks to improve girls living in the slums’ confidence and leadership abilities through boxing. Th...

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"Trafficking in sex slaves, beautiful women are abused and the centre for much of this trafficking is Odessa in the Ukraine. Girls are sold from one pimp to another and they are pu...

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Art
High Class Homeless
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"This documentary addresses the demise of many who decide that they simply cannot afford the luxury of living in rented accommodation and opt to live in an RV (recreational Vehicle...

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"Walking Merchandise exposes the sad story of middle-school-aged, Chinese children trafficked to the U.S. by smugglers known as “snakeheads.” Sent by their parents to work as l...

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Radio Cordillera is a road movie through the Northern Island Luzon on the Philippines. In search for the transmission range of a local community radio, we cross the mountains of on...

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Art
Challenge the Obvious
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"This is a social experiment and experience documentary starting in the poor favella’s of Rio, Brazil but moving from there to the poorest areas of Philadelphia. Haas and Hahn a...

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During the period of Mongol Rule in China, they introduced administrative and economic reforms. They were not interested...
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When people think of Dublin, they think of pubs, music culture, and the beer brand Guinness. Yet, you will be surprised ...
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