The first of five episodes about a Southeast Asian Journey by Landrover, by Vincent Urban and Clemens Kruger. Take off with them as they explore Malaysia. Watch.
Do You Have a Shoe Problem?
700 thousand tons of apparel and footwear gets thrown into landfills every year, while there are 300 million children globally who lack a pair of adequate shoes. Do you have a shoe problem? Find out ways to help. Soles4Souls has provided shoes to more than 19 million individuals in need.
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A Video Volunteers Film: The Fight for Justice Against Acid Attacks in India
In this Video Volunteers film, the IndiaUnheard correspondent, Varsha Jawalgekar, exposes the acid attack on Chanchal Paswan, 19, and her sister, 15, while they were asleep on their terrace. The attack was a result of their opposition to previous sexual harassment by the men. In the West, horrific attacks as such would be covered by major news media. However, in India, Video Volunteers is doing immensely important work getting information about this out and accessible.
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INDIA: End Untouchability
Untouchability in India (prejudice against what are considered the lowest caste, the Dailts), though technically illegal since 1950, still affects 167 million people, or 16% of the population. Members of the lowest rank of Indian society face discrimination at every level, access to education and medical facilities, restrictions on where they can live and what jobs they can have. This trailer for Article 17, the campaign launched by Video Volunteers in 2012, to empower the Dalits to tell their own stories through video, to achieve the goal, in the words of Stalin K, Managing Trustee of Video Volunteers, "the end of the 2000-year-old atrocity of untouchability in all its forms."
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The Way We Think About Charity Is Dead Wrong
Activist and fundraiser Dan Pallotta calls out the double standard that drives our broken relationship to charities. Too many nonprofits, he says, are rewarded for how little they spend—not for what they get done. Instead of equating frugality with morality, he asks us to start rewarding charities for their big goals and big accomplishments (even if that comes with big expenses). In this bold talk, he says: Let's change the way we think about changing the world.
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KICKING IT: Homeless World Cup
Can soccer solve homelessness? The Homeless World Cup thinks it can certainly help and through encouraging participation in this annual event, held since 2003, that it will encourage participants to change their own lives and solve global homelessness affecting 100 million people worldwide. This is a trailer for the feature length documentary, Kicking It, that chronicles the lives of seven players taking a once in a lifetime opportunity to represent their country at the 2006 Capetown, South Africa event. 64 countries will participate in the 2013 event in Poznan, Poland.
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BONO: The Good News on Poverty (Yes, There's Good News)
Become a factivist! Bono presents the facts on how we can end extreme poverty by 2030. Human beings have been campaigning against inequality and poverty for 3,000 years. But this journey is accelerating. Bono shares inspiring data that shows the end of poverty is in sight ... if we can harness the momentum.
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Herman's House
New Orleans native Herman Joshua Wallace was thrown into long-term solitary confinement after being accused of murdering a prison guard. Over 30 years later, Wallace received a letter from New York artist Jackie Sumuell that posed the question, "What kind of house does a man who has lived in a six-foot-by-nine-foot cell for over 30 years dream of?" Through correspondence and phone calls, they created an art installation that juxtaposes Wallace's cell with a full-scale model of his dream home.
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MEET: Kyle Thiermann, Founder of Surfing for Change
Kyle Theirmann, 21, is a pro surfer with a passion to systemically effect change. Combining surfing great waves around the world with making a series of short films about current issues, Thiermann focuses on the power we have to create a better world through everyday actions that we take. Through his Internet series, Surfing For Change, Kyle inspired viewers to move over 340 million dollars of lending power out of multi-national coal funding banks, and into local banks around the country.
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The Poverty Song
Wilbur is a musician, creator of a new genre called Indo-World Fusion. He is a tireless ambassador for cultural intelligence and has a passion for humanitarian and social justice issues. He loves to make the common extraordinary. Here... the Poverty Song, and his message... "stop the shopping spree, end poverty."
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USA: The Lineage Project Brings Peace to Incarcerated and At-Risk Youth
The Lineage Project has its roots in San Francisco, when Soren Gordhamer and Andrew Getz, took their meditation into the juvenile halls in 1997. The idea hit the east coast when Gordhamer moved to New York City and brought the practice with him, starting the Lineage Project East in 1999. Now, more than a decade later, his weekly hour-long classes have helped hundreds of adolescents control their emotions, relieve stress, and bring awareness to their mental state of mind through yoga and meditation.
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ZIMBABWE: Mugabe, Me and a Million Tampons
A documentary gonzo odyssey into the darkness of a nation held in fear and torn apart by corruption. Beginning in South Africa, a disillusioned photojournalist is employed to document a charity trying to organise the transportation of women’s sanitary aid into Zimbabwe. Frustrated by the complications; packing a million tampons, a camera and a romantic notion of being able to alter this reality, he decides to head off alone and undercover into Zimbabwe hell-bent on trying to document the unseen horrors.
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IRAN: First Girl to Surf
Outfitted in hijab surfwear, Ireland's leading woman surfer, 26 year old Easkey Britton, headed to a remote area of Iran, a short strip of coast lying in a narrow swell window between Pakistan and the Gulf of Oman. She was the first woman to surf Iran, as far as we know. Of the experience she quoted Marie Curie, "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood."
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FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS ANTHEM
Have you seen the First World Problems video? Well, the developing world gets their chance to retort here in the First World Problems Anthem. It's actually a commercial sponsored by WATERisLIFE.com.
MEXICO: Baja Smugglers
Daredevil outlaws. The Mexican drug war. All night trips on small fishing boats called "pangas" that smuggle migrant workers & marijuana into the United States. This is Baja Smugglers. A new documentary created by Jesse Aizenstat, author of Surfing the Middle East.
Read MoreGIRL RISING
GIRL RISING—the innovative feature film about the power of education to change a girl —and the world. The film spotlights unforgettable girls like Sokha, an orphan who rises from the dumps of Cambodia to become a star student and an accomplished dancer; Suma, who composes music to help her endure forced servitude in Nepal and today crusades to free others; and Ruksana, an Indian "pavement-dweller" whose father sacrifices his own basic needs for his daughter's dreams. Each girl is paired with a renowned writer from her native country. Edwidge Danticat, Sooni Taraporevala Aminatta Forna and others tell the girls' stories, each in it's style, and all with profound resonance. These girls are each unique, but the obstacles they faced are ubiquitous. Like the 66 million girls around the world who dream of going to school, what Sokha, Suma, Ruksana and the rest want most is to be students: to learn. And now, And now, by sharing their personal journeys, they have become teachers. Watch Girl Rising, and you will see: One girl with courage is a revolution.
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TANZANIA: Give Your Love Away
Healthcare is neither easily accessible nor affordable for many Tanzanians living in rural villages and poor urban areas. Anika Jeppesen traveled to Arusha, Tanzania to work as a medical volunteer through International Volunteer HQ’s medical placement program. Here is her experience.
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Frame By Frame (2015) Documentary On The Afghan Press
In 1996 the Taliban banned photography in Afghanistan. In 2014 as foreign troops pull out, international media will follow and the future of local afghan journalism is unknown. Frame by Frame is a documentary that explores the revolution of local photojournalism in Afghanistan.
IT'S A GIRL
In India, China and many other parts of the world today, girls are killed, aborted and abandoned simply because they are girls. The United Nations estimates as many as 200 million girls are missing in the world today because of this so-called gendercide" Add your voice to raise awareness of this and bring It's A Girl film to an area near you.
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CHINA: Peace in Chengdu
Paige Alexis Waters is a filmmaker, traveler and let's just say... if you are traveling via video rather than airways, you'd rather be traveling with Paige. Here she explores Peace Corps training in Chengdu, Sichuan Province China through images, smiles and some great soundtracks.