Category: Making a Difference
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Make Love Not Scars: Part 1
Ria Sharma is an extraordinary young woman. She saw a picture of a victim of an acid attack, which gave her life new direction. She decided to set up an organisation to help these women. Watch the film and learn about how it started and how her own perspectives have changed. Length: 10:44.
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New Yorkers Against Gun Violence:Part 2
We have smart phones, but did you know it is possible to make smart guns? We don’t need more guns, but we need smarter guns. We have the technology, so what stops us from using that technology and thus save thousands of lives? Leah explains it to us. Length: 06:35.
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The Fight for Scottish Independence
Gayle hopes that Scotland will soon leave the union with England, Wales and Northern Ireland, to become a sovereign nation again. We met her in Edinburgh where she is currently part of a group of activists fighting for Scottish independence. They live and fight together from a camp just outside the Scottish capital. Watch the…
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At the Cheetah Conservation Fund: Part 6
Laurie Marker founded the Cheetah Conservation Fund in 1990, but she has been researching the decline of the cheetah ever since the 1970s. It is therefore safe to say that she has devoted her life to saving this remarkable feline. In this film, she explains how it all started and why it is so important…
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Street Corner Resources: Part 2
On the street corners of Harlem, New York, communities come together. Everybody wants the community to be a safe place and people from the neighbourhood come to the street corners with information about housing, employment and other useful information. The young men become more aware of the consequences of being in a gang. Most of…
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Homeless in LA: Part 2
Angel has been very successful in getting people off the streets. It is easy for him to connect with people on the street because he was once a gang member and a heroin addict. He knows how to give people hope in the midst of hopelessness, and he uses himself as an example of how…
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Keep on Rowing: Part 2
Katie Spotz used to be a bench warmer at high school. A few years later she had run marathons, ultramarathons and ironmen, she had run through the Mojave Desert and swum a 525-kilometre river. However, her most impressive feat, is probably rowing across the Atlantic Ocean single-handed. She organized the expedition to raise money for…
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A Young Environmentalist
We constantly hear about all the environmental issues in the world such as global warming, deforestation and species of insects, birds and animals that are in danger of becoming extinct. What do we do about it though? Some of us do more than others do and James is one of them. In his spare time,…
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Homeless in LA: Part 1
Not everybody is aware of all the pain and misery homeless people suffer. Angel is an exception. He used to live on the street when he was not in prison. For nineteen years, he was a drug addict and his family and friends avoided him. One day he decided to change his life. Today he…