“Under Foreign Skies” is a series of portraits of Dutch people abroad doing remarkable things. Nanko van Buuren (1952-2015) was the co-founder of the Brazilian Institute for Innovations in Public […]
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Eric Beauchemin meets Kathy Barrera whose organisation, the Mothers’ Welfare Group, has been working for the past 13 years in a poor, remote village near the central Nigerian city of […]
The United Nations proclaimed 1996 the international year for the eradication of poverty. The goal was to lift a quarter of the world’s population out of extreme poverty, which, for […]
In the mid-1980s, a non-governmental organisation near the southern Indian city of Bangalore began an experiment to help people in nearly 150 villages to create a better life for themselves. […]
Pete Myers reports on how radical theology works in the Philippines, the only predominantly Catholic country in Asia. The programme includes a contribution from correspondent Keith Dalton, an interview with […]