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Global Activism: Life for Laborers on Mexico's Farms
Reporter Richard Marosi and photographer Don Bartletti of the Los Angeles Times trailed thousands of laborers on Mexico's mega-farms. They discovered inhumane conditions within the industry that...
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Global Activism: 'Right To Be Free' saves Ghana's children from slavery
After hearing Ghanaian Eric Peasah’s story about his efforts to rescue child slaves who have been trafficked into Ghana’s fishing industry, Chicagoan and Global Activist Lori Dillon, created a local...
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Global Activism: Iram Shah follows her deceased daughter's dream
Pakistani-American and Winnetka, Illinois teenager, Sonia Shah, traveled and studied around the world with her mom, Iram. Sonia would see, up close, the despair and hopelessness some girls face in the...
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Global Activism: U.S. veterans use Saffron to help rebuild Afghanistan
After their tours of duty in Afghanistan, U.S. veterans, Keith Alaniz, Emily Miller and Kimberly Jung, wanted to do more to help rebuild Afghan society. So they started, Rumi Spice, a “for-profit...
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Global Activism: 'Worldview' visits Pardada Pardadi girls school in India
In parts of rural India, it’s considered “a waste” for girls to be educated and that girls should only help do family chores, housework and prepare for marriage and children. In many villages, girls...
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Global Activism: 'Free Gift of Knowledge Transfer Leveraging Technology' Project
It's Thursday and time for our Global Activism series when we feature who work to make the world a better place. Today, we feature the “Free Gift of Knowledge Transfer Leveraging Technology" project....
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Global Activism: Film 'Circus Without Borders' and Circus Arts as Therapy
Yamoussa Bagoura is from Guinea, West Africa and Guillaume Saladin is from a remote Inuit community in the Arctic Tundra. They joined to realize their shared vision to use circus arts to help suffering...
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Global Activism: Every Child is My Child Educates kids in Rwanda and Burundi
For our Global Activism series, in 2012, we first spoke with former high school teacher, Elizabeth Powley. She believes that “every child has the right to learn.” She has a special love for the...
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Global Activism in India: PUKAR helps Mumbai's slum-dwellers
PUKAR is an independent research collective and an urban knowledge production center based in Mumbai, India. PUKAR means to “call out” in Hindi. Worldview visited the collective when it took the Global...
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Global Activism: Peru's Life and Leadership Initiative
It's Thursday and time for our Global Activism series, when we feature people who want to make the world a better place. Today, we catch up with Global Activist, Lara DeVries. She left her childhood...
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