Josh Macabuag talks about the everyday dangers people must guard against on South African roads. play video
Vimlendu Jha documents the lives of Delhi's ragpickers and the hardships they face to survive in India's capital city.
Jennifer's Unite For Sight charity teams up with the Sinhas, ophthalmologists from Bihar, India, who run a school for blind girls
Josh sees how a ram pump designed and supplied by David Alcock is helping deliver water to the community.
Josh sees how a ram pump designed and supplied by David Alcock helps deliver water to the community.
Jennifer discusses and hosts Unite For Sight's 'Volunteer of the Year' Awards.
Cassie talks about her research into group homes for orphaned, trafficked and other vulnerable children in Cambodia.
Josh investigates whether the sports academy will be useful for the poverty-stricken children of Jozini.
Jennifer talks to Sue Gue about her experience with Unite For Sight in India, what she saw and how it impacted her future.
Vimlendu Jha documents the lives of Delhi's ragpickers and the hardships they face to survive in India's capital city.
Jennifer's Unite For Sight charity teams up with the Sinhas, ophthalmologists from Bihar, India, who run a school for blind girls
Josh sees how a ram pump designed and supplied by David Alcock is helping deliver water to the community.
Josh sees how a ram pump designed and supplied by David Alcock helps deliver water to the community.
Jennifer discusses and hosts Unite For Sight's 'Volunteer of the Year' Awards.
Cassie talks about her research into group homes for orphaned, trafficked and other vulnerable children in Cambodia.
Josh investigates whether the sports academy will be useful for the poverty-stricken children of Jozini.
Jennifer talks to Sue Gue about her experience with Unite For Sight in India, what she saw and how it impacted her future.
As Lizzie prepares to return to Tanzania, she visits London to take part in a charity walk that raises money for the hospital.
Jennifer talks to Dr. Sachs about the benefits of the work being done by organizations like Unite For Sight.
Josh visits a boarding school for outstanding young athletes, which offers accommodation for visiting tourists and traveling teams.
Rosh and Roshan are co-presidents of Unite For Sight's Yale Chapter. They help at Dr. Shroff's Charity Eye Hospital in New Delhi.
Cassie speaks with several international aid workers about their experiences serving in Cambodia.
Josh looks at the different projects in South Africa helping disadvantaged children nurture their talents in sport
Josh tells us about the dangerous conditions he faces while driving on South Africa's roads and highways.
Cassie shows us how Cambodians celebrate New Year, a 3-day event marked by food, prayer and festivities.
Jennifer talks to Margaret Duah-Mensah, an opthalmic nurse for Unite For Sight who regularly visits the Buduburam Refugee camp.
Josh is trying to get the electricity on at the Jozini swimming pool, but it is harder than he expected.
Vimlendu and a group of volunteers join a campaign to preserve New Delhi?s trees and to plant new saplings around the city.
Jennifer talks to Jackie Madison, a Yale student who volunteered with UFS in Ghana and helped with outreach eye clinics.
Josh looks at an innovative new design that could possibly help ease the major sanitation issues in some parts of South Africa.
Lizzie films local children playing with toys they've crafted from what's left lying around, including plastic bags and toothpaste boxes.
Jennifer introduces Kartee, an ophthalmic nurse who travels around Ghana offering eye screenings to impoverished people.
Josh sets out to tackle a lack of sanitation, with a choice of unpleasant pit latrines or hard to build VIP toilets.
Lizzie gives us an overview of some of her daily chores while in Tanzania, cooking and doing her laundry.
Josh is looking at setting up more roundabout pumps to bring drinkable water to people in remote areas.
Jennifer meets Dr. James Clarke, an ophthalmologist in Ghana and a member of the UFS medical advisory board.
Josh looks for a solution to the water shortage in Ophanda, using simple techniques found in other parts of across South Africa.
Unite For Sight is holding its 5th Annual Global Health Conference, where health specialists come to share ideas.
Cassie is in Phnom Penh for a conference attended by other NGOs that work with children.
Vimlendu and his team have followed the Yamuna River from its source in the Himalayas to the Taj Mahal, where the river is heavily polluted.
The local youth center is a great place for the disabled children from the Lake Victoria Disability Centre to socialize.
Newey visits a home for children found homeless and begging on a bridge at the border between Thailand and Myanmar.
Josh is invited to Ophanda, South Africa, to help find a solution to the region?s chronic water shortages.
Vimlendu and a team of people travel to Yamunotri, where the Yamuna river starts, near a sacred Hindu temple.
Lizzie and her parents go on an ill-fated safari. Their car gets stuck in the mud and they must wait for help.
Josh looks at a rope and washer pump used to get water out of a borehole, which is easy for locals to repair.
Newey visits a project called "Just Begin," which encourages children to learn traditional Thai music.
It is Nyerere Memorial Day, commemorating Tanzania's first president, who broke tribal boundaries to unify the country.
Jennifer visits Newtown Middle School in Newtown, Connecticut. She meets students who are pen pals with children in the Buduburam refugee camp.
Josh meets Steve Nash, who shows him how drillers are creating boreholes in rural South Africa.
Cassie watches the children at the Homeland project practice their traditional dances.
Jennifer speaks to the Assistant Dean of Yale College, who encourages students to get involved with Unite For Sight.
While in India, Josh experiences the fast-paced city life, as well as the calm of the Indian countryside.
Newey visits a facility called Home Hug, which provides shelter, medicine and love for children infected with HIV.
Vimlendu is at a rally for the dead, dying and survivors of the Bhopal gas leak as they petition the Indian government.
Josh is in Mumbai, India, for an engineering award show where he is making a presentation and hopes to win an award.
Yale University student Josh Ford is from a small town in Georgia, but spends a summer volunteering with Unite for Sight in Ghana.
The Homeland charity runs a weaving center where women learn to dye silk, spin it onto spools and weave it.
Lizzie visits the site planned for the new MEP center, and watches a geologist pick the location of the center?s well.
Josh is ill. After being bitten by a tick he develops headache, fever and severe rash, leaving him unable to work.
In addition to eye care, Unite For Sight supports schooling in the Buduburam refugee camp in Ghana.
Newey and her team are invited to an event called Global Action Day organized by a Youth Venture partner organization.
Josh visits a treatment plant that can turn sewage into drinkable water, but it sits unused due to lack of finances.
Josh is working with "Engineers Without Borders" to help fix a broken water pump in a community in South Africa.
Lizzie is working with girls at the Musoma Engineering Project to make fabric bags to replace plastic ones.
The first Youth Venture project to start this year consists of a group of students trying to tackle environmental issues.
Yale student Sam Diamond traveled to Ghana with Unite For Sight to help treat patients in desperate need of eye care.
With a shortage of drinking water among the poorer communities around Jozini, Josh looks at desalinating sea water.
Outside Battambang, Cassie pitches in at a school offering local people free lessons in English.
Lizzie visits a primary school owned by one of Dennis's friends that has asked her to design a logo and some leaflets.
Dr. Rose, a volunteer eye surgeon with Unite For Sight, took his family away from western comforts to work in Ghana.
Newey and her colleague Kate meet a student who wants to plant tree nurseries to rebuild a forest and his community.
Jennifer introduces us to Dr. Rose, a surgeon who traveled to Ghana to help treat patients in dire need of eye operations.
Newey gets a tour of Minnesota high school specializing in music recording and the art based around it.
Josh takes a look at the improvements being made to get water from the Jozini dam to the local residents.
Musoma is a very religious region of Tanzania and David goes to church every Saturday to translate for the deaf children.
On her trip to the U.S., Newey stops in at CNN Center in Atlanta to meet the team responsible for Be The Change.
Vanessa Hux went to Ghana with Unite For Sight to help an ophthalmologist give eye care to a community of two million.
Swechha joins the art and design department at the University of Wisconsin-Stout to produce t-shirt and poster designs.
Josh gets a look inside the Jozini Dam, which runs deep into the rock formation and acts as the home to vampire bats.
While in Florida, Newey met up with her friends Maria and Sally and experienced American weather and cooking.
Homeland has organized Child Trafficking Awareness Day to address the issue on the Thailand-Cambodia border.
While in Ghana Jennifer visits the Unite For Sight chapter at the Buduburam refugee camp, which supplies vital eye care.
Josh visits the dam near Jozini, which meets local agricultural requirements, but not the desperate domestic need.
Vimlendu attends a Shramdaan on the banks of the Yamuna where local children help clean the river's polluted water.
The last day of the sponsored cycle sees the riders reach Musoma and take part in World Disability Day activities.
Vimlendu talks about his experiences on the Be the Change project so far and how it has benefited Swechha.
Newey talks about her experiences on the Be the Change project so far and how it has affected the Youth Venture program.
Lizzie talks about her experiences on the Be the Change project so far and how she coping with the language barrier.
Josh talks about his experiences on the Be the Change project so far, looking at what he missed most from home.
Jennifer talks about her experiences on the Be the Change project so far and her plans for the coming month.
Cassie talks about her experiences on the Be the Change project so far, addressing her adjustment to life in Cambodia.
Newey is in the Big Apple and she talks to people who have started Ventures in the city.
On day two the riders cover 100 km and travel through the Serengeti National Park.
Lizzie along with 24 people from the Lake Victoria Disability Centre set off on a charity bike ride.
Jozini?s municipal pool was renovated 19 months ago, but remains closed to the public -- Josh hopes to change that.
Newey is at the Youth Venture global meeting in Connecticut meeting her international counterparts
The plans are in place for a new sports complex in Jozini, and but a lack of funding is holding up the project.
As part of a festival Cambodian paper money is folded into boats and distributed to the poor.
Cassie visits a children's playgroup, where the aim is to educate children about HIV/AIDS and the people who suffer from it.
Vimlendu partners with the people behind the Dreamtime Circus, who are putting on a series of shows called Circus For Change.
Newey and her team lead a workshop for a group of children from the Thai-Chinese School, teaching organization skills.
Chacha is blind, but specialists in Mwanza, Tanzania, could tell him whether an operation will give him the power of sight.