Video Journalism
Women of the Sun
Hundreds of other poor rural villages in Asia and Africa have been electrified by village women trained as barefoot solar engineers. The women can give fresh hope to the more than one and a half billion rural poor who live without electricity. The women first electrify their home village, then they continue to neighboring villages. House after house. Kilowatt after kilowatt.
 
The Last Stand of The Alangan
The Alangan forest people on the Philippine island of Mindoro are frightened. The sound of test drilling can be heard several places in the jungle they are dependent on. The land they have inherited from their ancestors is threatened by Norwegian mining operations.
 
Bitter Drops
The English colonial rulers promised the low cast Tamils from the south of India a heavenly future as tea plantation workers in Sri Lanka three generations ago. Where the tea grows the plantation workers are still waiting for a life in dignity.
 
The Jungle Shamans
The Gorau of the Nepalese Tharu-people can do medical wonders with their traditional knowledge of several hundred plants. But both their knowledge and the nature they depend on are under threat, both locally and from the far outside. They share the threats with other indigenous people around the world.
 


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