Driving dangerously

Driving dangerously

Josh Macabuag talks about the everyday dangers people must guard against on South African roads. play videoVideo

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RagpickersVideo

Vimlendu Jha documents the lives of Delhi's ragpickers and the hardships they face to survive in India's capital city.

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Swim fanVideo

Josh helps organize resources to open a badly needed community swimming pool.

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Opening their eyesVideo

Jennifer's Unite For Sight charity teams up with the Sinhas, ophthalmologists from Bihar, India, who run a school for blind girls

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Water worksVideo

Josh sees how a ram pump designed and supplied by David Alcock is helping deliver water to the community.

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Water vs. DevelopmentVideo

Vimlendu investigates sacrificing bodies of water in the name of development.

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Water hammerVideo

Josh sees how a ram pump designed and supplied by David Alcock helps deliver water to the community.

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Volunteers of the YearVideo

Jennifer discusses and hosts Unite For Sight's 'Volunteer of the Year' Awards.

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Group homes in CambodiaVideo

Cassie talks about her research into group homes for orphaned, trafficked and other vulnerable children in Cambodia.

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Using sport for changeVideo

Josh investigates whether the sports academy will be useful for the poverty-stricken children of Jozini.

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A volunteer's storyVideo

Jennifer talks to Sue Gue about her experience with Unite For Sight in India, what she saw and how it impacted her future.

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RagpickersVideo

Vimlendu Jha documents the lives of Delhi's ragpickers and the hardships they face to survive in India's capital city.

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Swim fanVideo

Josh helps organize resources to open a badly needed community swimming pool.

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Opening their eyesVideo

Jennifer's Unite For Sight charity teams up with the Sinhas, ophthalmologists from Bihar, India, who run a school for blind girls

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Water worksVideo

Josh sees how a ram pump designed and supplied by David Alcock is helping deliver water to the community.

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Water vs. DevelopmentVideo

Vimlendu investigates sacrificing bodies of water in the name of development.

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Water hammerVideo

Josh sees how a ram pump designed and supplied by David Alcock helps deliver water to the community.

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Volunteers of the YearVideo

Jennifer discusses and hosts Unite For Sight's 'Volunteer of the Year' Awards.

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Group homes in CambodiaVideo

Cassie talks about her research into group homes for orphaned, trafficked and other vulnerable children in Cambodia.

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Using sport for changeVideo

Josh investigates whether the sports academy will be useful for the poverty-stricken children of Jozini.

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A volunteer's storyVideo

Jennifer talks to Sue Gue about her experience with Unite For Sight in India, what she saw and how it impacted her future.

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The long London walkVideo

As Lizzie prepares to return to Tanzania, she visits London to take part in a charity walk that raises money for the hospital.

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Meeting Dr. Jeffrey SachsVideo

Jennifer talks to Dr. Sachs about the benefits of the work being done by organizations like Unite For Sight.

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Sports and tourismVideo

Josh visits a boarding school for outstanding young athletes, which offers accommodation for visiting tourists and traveling teams.

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Meet the InternsVideo

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.

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International Aid WorkersVideo

Cassie speaks with several international aid workers about their experiences serving in Cambodia.

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Children of South AfricaVideo

Josh looks at the different projects in South Africa helping disadvantaged children nurture their talents in sport

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Rehabilitation at HomeVideo

Lizzie shows how the LVDC's new program is helping two disabled children.

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Dangerous Roads AheadVideo

Josh tells us about the dangerous conditions he faces while driving on South Africa's roads and highways.

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Enter the New YearVideo

Cassie shows us how Cambodians celebrate New Year, a 3-day event marked by food, prayer and festivities.

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Eye Care for AllVideo

Jennifer talks to Margaret Duah-Mensah, an opthalmic nurse for Unite For Sight who regularly visits the Buduburam Refugee camp.

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Power to the poolVideo

Josh is trying to get the electricity on at the Jozini swimming pool, but it is harder than he expected.

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Monsoon WoodingVideo

Vimlendu and a group of volunteers join a campaign to preserve New Delhi?s trees and to plant new saplings around the city.

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Eye on GhanaVideo

Jennifer talks to Jackie Madison, a Yale student who volunteered with UFS in Ghana and helped with outreach eye clinics.

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The sanitation solutionVideo

Josh looks at an innovative new design that could possibly help ease the major sanitation issues in some parts of South Africa.

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Turning trash into toysVideo

Lizzie films local children playing with toys they've crafted from what's left lying around, including plastic bags and toothpaste boxes.

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The screening programVideo

Jennifer introduces Kartee, an ophthalmic nurse who travels around Ghana offering eye screenings to impoverished people.

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Solving the sanitation problemVideo

Josh sets out to tackle a lack of sanitation, with a choice of unpleasant pit latrines or hard to build VIP toilets.

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A day in the lifeVideo

Lizzie gives us an overview of some of her daily chores while in Tanzania, cooking and doing her laundry.

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Kids playing and water pumpingVideo

Josh is looking at setting up more roundabout pumps to bring drinkable water to people in remote areas.

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Sighting a needVideo

Jennifer meets Dr. James Clarke, an ophthalmologist in Ghana and a member of the UFS medical advisory board.

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Sourcing a solutionVideo

Josh looks for a solution to the water shortage in Ophanda, using simple techniques found in other parts of across South Africa.

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A meeting of mindsVideo

Unite For Sight is holding its 5th Annual Global Health Conference, where health specialists come to share ideas.

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Conference in the capitalVideo

Cassie is in Phnom Penh for a conference attended by other NGOs that work with children.

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The tarnished Taj MahalVideo

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.

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The youth centerVideo

The local youth center is a great place for the disabled children from the Lake Victoria Disability Centre to socialize.

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Stateless childrenVideo

Newey visits a home for children found homeless and begging on a bridge at the border between Thailand and Myanmar.

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Curing the water shortageVideo

Josh is invited to Ophanda, South Africa, to help find a solution to the region?s chronic water shortages.

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The river's sourceVideo

Vimlendu and a team of people travel to Yamunotri, where the Yamuna river starts, near a sacred Hindu temple.

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Stranded in the SerengetiVideo

Lizzie and her parents go on an ill-fated safari. Their car gets stuck in the mud and they must wait for help.

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A handy pumpVideo

Josh looks at a rope and washer pump used to get water out of a borehole, which is easy for locals to repair.

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Making sweet musicVideo

Newey visits a project called "Just Begin," which encourages children to learn traditional Thai music.

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Remembering NyerereVideo

It is Nyerere Memorial Day, commemorating Tanzania's first president, who broke tribal boundaries to unify the country.

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Writing a refugeeVideo

Jennifer visits Newtown Middle School in Newtown, Connecticut. She meets students who are pen pals with children in the Buduburam refugee camp.

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Drilling a boreholeVideo

Josh meets Steve Nash, who shows him how drillers are creating boreholes in rural South Africa.

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A traditional Khmer danceVideo

Cassie watches the children at the Homeland project practice their traditional dances.

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Yale Supports Unite For SightVideo

Jennifer speaks to the Assistant Dean of Yale College, who encourages students to get involved with Unite For Sight.

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Kicking back in IndiaVideo

While in India, Josh experiences the fast-paced city life, as well as the calm of the Indian countryside.

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HIV and positiveVideo

Newey visits a facility called Home Hug, which provides shelter, medicine and love for children infected with HIV.

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Looking for justiceVideo

Vimlendu is at a rally for the dead, dying and survivors of the Bhopal gas leak as they petition the Indian government.

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The Mondialogo AwardsVideo

Josh is in Mumbai, India, for an engineering award show where he is making a presentation and hopes to win an award.

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From small town to big changeVideo

Yale University student Josh Ford is from a small town in Georgia, but spends a summer volunteering with Unite for Sight in Ghana.

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Fruit of the LoomVideo

The Homeland charity runs a weaving center where women learn to dye silk, spin it onto spools and weave it.

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HomecomingVideo

Vimlendu takes a day off to visit his home town of Bhagalpur and tours his old school.

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Well thought outVideo

Lizzie visits the site planned for the new MEP center, and watches a geologist pick the location of the center?s well.

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Tick bite feverVideo

Josh is ill. After being bitten by a tick he develops headache, fever and severe rash, leaving him unable to work.

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Educating the RefugeesVideo

In addition to eye care, Unite For Sight supports schooling in the Buduburam refugee camp in Ghana.

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Global Action DayVideo

Newey and her team are invited to an event called Global Action Day organized by a Youth Venture partner organization.

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Drinking pure sewageVideo

Josh visits a treatment plant that can turn sewage into drinkable water, but it sits unused due to lack of finances.

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Easing tensions with clean waterVideo

Josh is working with "Engineers Without Borders" to help fix a broken water pump in a community in South Africa.

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Bags of developmentVideo

Lizzie is working with girls at the Musoma Engineering Project to make fabric bags to replace plastic ones.

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A new Venture for 2008Video

The first Youth Venture project to start this year consists of a group of students trying to tackle environmental issues.

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The student volunteerVideo

Yale student Sam Diamond traveled to Ghana with Unite For Sight to help treat patients in desperate need of eye care.

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Helping the homelessVideo

Vimlendu Jah introduces schoolchildren in India to some of life's challenges.

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Discovering desalinationVideo

With a shortage of drinking water among the poorer communities around Jozini, Josh looks at desalinating sea water.

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The English schoolVideo

Outside Battambang, Cassie pitches in at a school offering local people free lessons in English.

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Fresh thinking from Think BigVideo

Lizzie visits a primary school owned by one of Dennis's friends that has asked her to design a logo and some leaflets.

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Making a real differenceVideo

Dr. Rose, a volunteer eye surgeon with Unite For Sight, took his family away from western comforts to work in Ghana.

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Re-growing the communityVideo

Newey and her colleague Kate meet a student who wants to plant tree nurseries to rebuild a forest and his community.

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Teaching Dr. RoseVideo

Jennifer introduces us to Dr. Rose, a surgeon who traveled to Ghana to help treat patients in dire need of eye operations.

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School of rockVideo

Newey gets a tour of Minnesota high school specializing in music recording and the art based around it.

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Water, water everywhere?Video

Josh takes a look at the improvements being made to get water from the Jozini dam to the local residents.

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Seeing signs in churchVideo

Musoma is a very religious region of Tanzania and David goes to church every Saturday to translate for the deaf children.

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Coming face-to-face with CNNVideo

On her trip to the U.S., Newey stops in at CNN Center in Atlanta to meet the team responsible for Be The Change.

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A volunteer's eye viewVideo

Vanessa Hux went to Ghana with Unite For Sight to help an ophthalmologist give eye care to a community of two million.

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Virtual volunteeringVideo

Swechha joins the art and design department at the University of Wisconsin-Stout to produce t-shirt and poster designs.

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Inside the dam's bat caveVideo

Josh gets a look inside the Jozini Dam, which runs deep into the rock formation and acts as the home to vampire bats.

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Friends in FloridaVideo

While in Florida, Newey met up with her friends Maria and Sally and experienced American weather and cooking.

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Tackling child traffickingVideo

Homeland has organized Child Trafficking Awareness Day to address the issue on the Thailand-Cambodia border.

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A refuge from blindnessVideo

While in Ghana Jennifer visits the Unite For Sight chapter at the Buduburam refugee camp, which supplies vital eye care.

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The Pongolapoort DamVideo

Josh visits the dam near Jozini, which meets local agricultural requirements, but not the desperate domestic need.

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The abandoned riverVideo

Vimlendu attends a Shramdaan on the banks of the Yamuna where local children help clean the river's polluted water.

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Bike ride -- day threeVideo

The last day of the sponsored cycle sees the riders reach Musoma and take part in World Disability Day activities.

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Vimlendu's four-month reviewVideo

Vimlendu talks about his experiences on the Be the Change project so far and how it has benefited Swechha.

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Newey's four-month reviewVideo

Newey talks about her experiences on the Be the Change project so far and how it has affected the Youth Venture program.

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Lizzie's four-month reviewVideo

Lizzie talks about her experiences on the Be the Change project so far and how she coping with the language barrier.

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Josh's four-month reviewVideo

Josh talks about his experiences on the Be the Change project so far, looking at what he missed most from home.

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Jennifer's four-month reviewVideo

Jennifer talks about her experiences on the Be the Change project so far and her plans for the coming month.

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Cassie's four-month reviewVideo

Cassie talks about her experiences on the Be the Change project so far, addressing her adjustment to life in Cambodia.

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Newey in New YorkVideo

Newey is in the Big Apple and she talks to people who have started Ventures in the city.

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Bike ride -- day twoVideo

On day two the riders cover 100 km and travel through the Serengeti National Park.

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Bike ride -- day oneVideo

Lizzie along with 24 people from the Lake Victoria Disability Centre set off on a charity bike ride.

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Renovated, but not openVideo

Jozini?s municipal pool was renovated 19 months ago, but remains closed to the public -- Josh hopes to change that.

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International relationsVideo

Newey is at the Youth Venture global meeting in Connecticut meeting her international counterparts

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Pitching the plansVideo

The plans are in place for a new sports complex in Jozini, and but a lack of funding is holding up the project.

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Floating donationVideo

As part of a festival Cambodian paper money is folded into boats and distributed to the poor.

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Playgroup for AIDSVideo

Cassie visits a children's playgroup, where the aim is to educate children about HIV/AIDS and the people who suffer from it.

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Awareness through performanceVideo

Vimlendu partners with the people behind the Dreamtime Circus, who are putting on a series of shows called Circus For Change.

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The student workshopVideo

Newey and her team lead a workshop for a group of children from the Thai-Chinese School, teaching organization skills.

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Chacha's chance to seeVideo

Chacha is blind, but specialists in Mwanza, Tanzania, could tell him whether an operation will give him the power of sight.

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