Category: Video

Birhan Woldu, the face of Ethiopia’s 1984 famine i working as a nurse and building schools for children. This is her story. From Why Poverty?

How much space does a teenager need? What’s it like growing up in a tiny flat where the only place you have privacy is the

In the Jaintia Hills of northeast India, a young boy descends everyday into the ‘rathole’ coalmines. He works in these hard and dangerous conditions, so

This short video about surviving the murderous streets of Cali, Columbia has a surprising ending.

Households throw away $252 billion in food each year, as much as the market capitalization of Microsoft. From Why Poverty?

A moment in the life of a child in the oil rich Lake Maracaibo region in Venezuela.

A working family in Virginia Beach faces eviction and a pastor tries to help in this brief video from Why Poverty?

“The system we have now is designed by the rich for the rich.” A seven-minute film from Why Poverty.

How a micro loan changed a woman’s life in Bangladesh.

As the Archives of the Episcopal Church, President Gay Jennings of the House of Deputies and the Office of Government Relations are observing a civil