Articles by ViewChange
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Friday
November 2
2012(With Video) Facing Climate Change By Adapting to It
While the emphasis today is on rescue, recovery and rebuilding efforts from Hurricane Sandy, some East Coast leaders have already begun to raise the tough question for tomorrow: How do we adapt to climate change? In developing countries, this question is a part of daily life. From the Oxfam series, “Climate Change The Hardest Hit,” here are three stories from three continents where low-income people are particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change.
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- Agriculture, Environment
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Friday
October 21
2011ViewChange Film Friday: ’With My Own Two Wheels’
For most Americans, the bicycle is a choice. It is a toy, a recreational tool, or an eco-conscious form of transportation. In 2010, 3 mountain biking buddies from Santa Barbara set off on a round-the-world journey to film the stories of individuals for whom the bicycle is not a choice, but a machine that opens new economic opportunity and purpose.
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Friday
October 14
2011W/Video Via ViewChange, Oxfam: This World Food Day, Making it Africa’s Last Famine
In 2009, 200 households in the northern Ethiopian farming village Adi Ha enrolled in an Oxfam America program letting them trade work for insurance against draught. This year over 13,000 families in 45 villages enrolled. As draught threatens East Africa, this 1/2 hour documentary from ViewChange and Oxfam shows how investments can break the cycle.
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- Health Care
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- nutrition
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Thursday
September 15
2011ViewChange Video of the Week: In Fiji, Women-Powered Chutney Business Finances Development
In the rural, cane-growing region of Fiji, a new enterprise is revolutionizing the lives of the local community by providing an income for women who previously relied on their husbands, helping them scale up production and save money, and financing the country’s only senior citizens center.
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Friday
September 2
2011ViewChange Video of the Week: From Kenya, the Commercial, Ecological Life of a Flip Flop
As Americans get ready for the Labor Day holiday, many are preparing to don their flip-flops for the last time before tossing them in the trash. In Kenya, much-loved "pata-patas" are repaired, reused, and recycled-but never wasted. The film follows the long life cycle of this colorful footwear, a story full of resourcefulness and enterprise.
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Thursday
August 18
2011ViewChange Film of the Week: “The Entrepreneurs”
Florence, Esnart, Ng’andwe and Precious all come from backgrounds of extreme poverty in rural Zambia. They’ve embarked on five months of intensive training in leadership and enterprise through Goldman Sachs’ 10,000 Women initative. With courage and determination, these young women defy the odds and establish their own successful businesses.
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Wednesday
August 10
2011ViewChange Video of the Week: Community Enterprise In India
The Gram Mooligal Company Limited in India is owned entirely by rural villagers who gather and cultivate medicinal plants. Its work promotes sustainable harvesting, while connecting villagers into the supply chain of larger herbal companies.
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Thursday
August 4
2011ViewChange Video of the Week: Beyond a Dollar a Day
Pro Mujer, a development organization working with women in Latin America, started out focusing on training. But it discovered that education only goes so far, and began issuing microloans so that women could start their own businesses and improve not only their lives but also the lives of their families.
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