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4 Episodes 2005 - 2005
Episode 1
Tue, Jun 28, 2005 60 mins
Part 1 of a four-part series profiling folks who are "applying business skills to solving social ills" visits Zambia, where Moses Zulu operates Children's Town for AIDS orphans; San Francisco, home of Mimi Silbert's Delancey Foundation, which runs a restaurant and moving company to give ex-cons and homeless people a second chance; and India, where the Rugmark Foundation's Kailash Satyarthi is seen risking his life to battle illegal child labor. Robert Redford hosts.
Episode 2
Tue, Jun 28, 2005 60 mins
"Technology of Freedom" (Part 2 of four) profiles social reformers whose better mousetraps are lifting people out of poverty around the world. In Kenya, Martin Fisher and Nick Moon's manually operated irrigation pumps can increase farmers' incomes tenfold. Agronomist Fabio Rosa has made electricity affordable for rural Brazilians. And Indian eye surgeon Govindappa Venkataswamy and American businessman David Green have teamed up to put eyeglasses and cataract surgery within the reach of the poor.
Episode 3
Tue, Jul 5, 2005 60 mins
Part 3 of four showcases "The Power of Enterprise" as it profiles innovative---and decidedly low-tech---social entrepreneurs in Peru, Brazil and Bangladesh. For Peruvian Albina Ruiz Rios, "garbage is money": she operates small recycling businesses. Maria Teresa "Tete" Leal runs a seamstress cooperative in a Rio de Janeiro slum whose members produce high fashion. And Muhammad Yunis's Grameen Bank makes small loans to the poor in Bangladesh. "Credit," he believes, "is a human right."
Episode 4
Tue, Jul 5, 2005 60 mins
The series concludes by profiling heroes who are imparting "The Power of Knowledge" to at-risk children in India, Egypt and Thailand. In India, "guardian angel" Inderjit Khurana operates a school for street kids where they congregate: at a railway station. In Cairo, Dina Abdel Wahab started a preschool for special-needs children when she had trouble finding a school for her son, who has Down's syndrome. And in Thailand, Sompop Jantraka offers girls schooling and refuge from the sex trade.