Worldview Global Activism
By Chicago Public Media
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Podcast Description
In this ongoing collection of interviews, Worldview showcases individuals with Chicago-area ties who work to improve the world through grassroots efforts.
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CleanDocumentary initiative advocates for victims of sexual violence | The Voices and Faces project documents the stories of survivors of sexual violence. One recent effort took them to Mexico, where they interviewed women who were the victims of rape and torture at the hands of Mexican police. | 5/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGlobal Activism: Fighting a kidney disease epedemic in Nicaragua | It’s Thursday, and time for our Global Activism segment. | 5/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanBringing music, art and English to an Indonesian orphanage | How does a white girl from Chicago get interested in teaching music to orphans in Indonesia? Music for Lombok co-founder Kat Vallera explains. | 5/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGlobal Activism: Vanavevhu works for economic stability in Zimbabwe | On today's Global Activism segment, Chicagoan Elizabeth Mhangami, the founder of Vanavevhu: Children of the Soil returns. Recently back from Zimbabwe, she gives an update on what's happening in her native country and about her organization's new initiative called "Theory of Change." | 5/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanTikodane Community Centre brings eco-tourism to Zambia | Worldview catches up with Elke Kroeger-Radcliffe, founder of the Tikondane Community Centre. The center is located in Katete, a small town in the eastern province of Zambia. Tikondane sponsors a community school, adult education and eco-tourism programs. | 4/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGlobal Activism: Chicago bird conservationists restore winter habitats | Community Cloud Forest Conservation works to alleviate poverty and protect Guatemala’s tropical cloud forests. The organization supports a range of projects that include education, reforestation, community development and bird monitoring. | 4/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChicago organization offers opportunity to volunteer in Zambia via Groupon | Spark Ventures is a Chicago-based non-profit that partners with grassroots organizations to serve children in poverty. The group is working on providing nutrition, education and health care to those in need in rural Zambia—and have partnered with Groupon to do it. | 4/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGlobal Activism: Colombia Vive Chicago helps internally displaced women in Colombia | Nearly 60% of Colombia's millions of internally displaced persons (IDPs) are women. Many of these women lost not only their homes, but also their husbands, brothers and sons to ongoing violence. Colombian women have suffered through torture, rape and numerous other abuses. | 4/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGlobal Activism: Mailisita foundation teaching kids in Tanzania | It’s Thursday and time for our Global Activism segment. Each Thursday, we hear about someone who’s decided to make the world a better place.In 2010, Terry Mulligan taught in the Mailisita community in Moshi, Tanzania. | 3/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGlobal Activism: ‘Through Her Eyes’ empowers females in developing countries through sports | Through Her Eyes is a documentary photography and video project conceived to report and record the voices and faces of women playing sports in developing countries. By doing so, the project aims to show the benefits of sports as a conduit for destroying social barriers that often hold women ba | 3/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGlobal Activism: Fair trade women's accessories help support artisans in Indonesia and Cambodia | Each week on Global Activism we feature individuals who are trying to make a difference. | 2/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGlobal Activism: High quality coffee sold in America helps Haitian farmers | Based in the city of Baraderes, Haiti, the organization Just Haiti works with Haitian farmers who produce high quality, organic, Arabica coffee. Just Haiti then markets and sells this coffee to consumers in the United States. | 2/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGlobal Activism: Chicago doctor brings eye care to Haiti | On today's Global Activism, we hear from a Haitian American doctor who's trying to change the way eye care is delivered in Haiti. | 1/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGlobal Activism: Combatting HIV in Togo | On today's Global Activism, we talk to Beth Skoroshod, who works on HIV prevention for Population Services International (PSI).The organization runs a host of health programs around the globe. These include an HIV prevention project in Togo that targets men who have sex with men. | 1/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGlobal Activism: Local architects work on pro-bono projects in Chicago and around the world | On this week's Global Activism, Worldview talks to two women who lead the Chicago chapter of Architecture for Humanity. | 1/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGlobal Activism: Clean water brings big changes to village in Kenya | On this week's Global Activism, Worldview talks to Aliya de Grazia. After graduating high school at 18, she decided to put off attending an honors program at Purdue University. | 1/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGlobal Activism: Chicago neonatologist returns home to India to do development work | Worldview talks to Dr. Anita Deshmukh, the executive director of Partners for Urban Knowledge Action and Research, an organization based in Mumbai. | 12/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGlobal Activism: couple fights sickle cell disease in Cameroon | A genetic condition, sickle cell disease disproportionately affects those of African descent. Here in the U.S., one out of 12 African-Americans has the sickle cell trait, and one out of 400 contracts the disease.Dr. | 12/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGlobal Activism: Clinic in Nicaraguan highlands provides reproductive health care for women | Affectionately known as "Mama Licha," Alicia Huete Diaz has a clinic in Esteli, Nicaragua that's trained 3,000 midwives to date and has raised the quality of reproductive healthcare in the entire highlands region.Mama Licha is joined by her passionate supporters, Angie Rodgers and Jean Paschen, to d | 11/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGlobal Activism: Helping destitute Afghan women become artisans | Every Thursday in our Global Activism series, we introduce you to a local individual who’s trying to change the world.In Dari, the word arzu means “hope.” It’s also the name of an organization that employs Afghan women in remote provinces to weave fair trade artisan rugs. | 11/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGlobal Activism: Paddling down the Ganges to fight cervical cancer | Thursdays on Global Activism, we hear about an individual who’s trying to make the world a better place.When diagnosed with a terminal illness, many people switch course. In that respect, forty-five-year-old New Mexico resident Michele Baldwin is no different. | 10/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGlobal Activism: Combatting HIV-AIDS and poverty in Lyantonde, Uganda | Every Thursday on Global Activism, we hear from a local individual who works to make the world a better place.Ahabwe Michael is executive director of the ICOD Action Network, based in the Lyantonde district of southwestern Uganda. | 10/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGlobal Activism: WGN's Randi Belisomo travels to Haiti in memory of her late husband | Every Thursday on Global Activism, we hear from a Chicagoan who works to make the world a better place. Today, we focus on two individuals steeped in the world’s water crisis.Water plays a central role in global poverty. Every 20 seconds, a child dies from a water-related disease. | 10/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGlobal Activism: Battling HIV/AIDS on Mfangano Island in Lake Victoria, Kenya | Chas and Marco Salmen are the founders of Organic Health Response, or OHR. Started in 2008, OHR represents the vision of Kenyan organic farmers, teachers and health workers on Mfangano Island in Kenya’s Lake Victoria. | 10/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGlobal Activism: LemonAid Fund does development work in Sierra Leone | In 1996, Dr. Nancy Peddle was working on her dissertation in war-torn Sierra Leone when she found herself in the middle of a bloody coup. As the violence mounted, Dr. | 9/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGlobal Activism: Local student starts organic farming in China | Every Thursday on Global Activism, we hear about an individual who's trying to make the world a better place.In China, food safety is a serious issue. Minxu Zhang is a Chinese student from Lake Forest College, who was in her home country this summer to establish a direct line of purch | 9/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGlobal Activism: A high school in Kenya for AIDS orphans | More than one million people live in Nairobi's squatter community of Kibera, including 30,000 orphans of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. On today's Global Activism segment, we talk with Father Terry Charlton, co-founder of St. | 9/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGlobal Activism: Preschool teacher shows her students how to help children in Swaziland | Today on our Global Activism segment, we talk to Ziomara Perez, a Chicago preschool teacher. “Ms. | 8/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGlobal Activism: Woman leaves Tinley Park roots behind to educate mothers and children in Peru | It’s Thursday, and time for our Global Activism series. | 8/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGlobal Activism: Stories from the Peace Corps | This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Peace Corps. In 1960, Senator John F. Kennedy challenged students at the University of Michigan to serve their country in the cause of peace by living and working in developing countries.That speech laid the foundation for what became the Peace Corps. | 8/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGlobal Activism: EdPowerment enabling education in disadvantaged communities in Tanzania | Every Thursday on Global Activism we hear about an individual who's trying to make the world a better place.Today we talk with Jillian Swinford, who volunteered as a teacher for a month in Tanzania. She left feeling she could do more for the community of Moshi, Tanzania. | 7/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGlobal Activism: 'Malawi Matters' uses creativity to educate on HIV and AIDS | Every Thursday on Global Activism we hear about an individual who's trying to make the world a better place.Today we talk to Phyllis Wezeman, an adjunct professor at the University of Notre Dame and executive director of Malawi Matters, whose mission is to develop culturally-inspired HIV an | 7/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGlobal Activism: ‘Hands with Hope’ brings dental care to the children of Honduras | Every Thursday on Global Activism we hear about an individual who's decided to work to make the world a better place.People’s teeth often go overlooked in development work. Annie Nardone, a dental hygienist, wanted more out of life. | 7/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGlobal Activism: Chicago group provides training for autism services in countries where the disorder often goes undiagnosed | Recent studies estimate that globally, about 1 in 100 people have autism. But in developing countries, many know nothing of the developmental disorder and services are minimal. | 7/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGlobal Activism: Chicago doctor plans to build a hospital in his hometown in Nigeria | Every Thursday on Global Activism we hear about an individual who's decided to work to make the world a better place.Nigeria-born Dr. Godwin Onyema came to the U.S. in 1974. | 6/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGlobal Activism: Pictures help transform communities and connect kids around the globe | Each Thursday on Global Activism we hear about an individual who’s decided to work to make the world a better place.Ryan Ansin is the founder of Every Person Has a Story (EPHAS). | 6/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGlobal Activism: Women reporters change their communities | Each Thursday on Global Activism we hear about an individual who’s decided to work to make the world a better place.Cristi Hegranes is the founder of the Global Press Institute, known as GPI. It’s a non-profit media organization that trains women to be journalists. | 6/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGlobal Activism: Chicago area architects offer their skills on projects around the globe | Each Thursday on Global Activism, we hear about an individual who’s decided to work to make the world a better place.Katherine Darnstadt is the co-founder of the Chicago chapter of Architecture for Humanity. | 6/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGlobal Activism: Operation Asha expands its TB treatment program to Cambodia | Each Thursday on Global Activism, we hear about an individual who’s decided to work to make the world a better place.Sandeep Ahuja is the co-founder of Operation Asha. The organization works to eradicate tuberculosis. They began in India. | 5/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGlobal Activism: A community centre in Zambia helps keep a village employed | Elke Kroeger-Radcliffe is the founder of the Tikondane Community Centre. | 5/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGlobal Activism: Bringing up communities to eliminate poverty in Ghana | Dr. Naana Agyemang-Mensah is the country director of The Hunger Project-Ghana. The organization works to end hunger and poverty around the world. Naana has been running their Ghana program for the past decade. | 5/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGlobal Activism: Helping kids get an education in Guatemala | Each Thursday on Global Activism, we hear about an individual who’s decided to work to make the world a better place.Julie Coyne is the founder and director of Education and Hope. | 5/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGlobal Activism: Competition offers new model for bringing flood relief to Pakistan | Each Thursday on Global Activism we hear about individuals who’ve decided to work to make the world a better place.The U.S. | 4/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGlobal Activism: Repaired bikes provide economical means of transporation in developing countries | On this week's Global Activism, we decided to catch up with one of the 90 some groups that will be at the Global Activism Expo on April 30.If you show up at the Expo with an old bike to donate, it's certain to put a smile on the faces of the Working Bikes folks. | 4/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGlobal Activism: Local librarian helps rebuild libraries in Haiti | Each Thursday on Global Activism we hear about an individual who’s decided to work to make the world a better place.Deborah Lazar is a librarian at New Trier High School. She's been involved with New Trier’s Haiti Project, which has been supporting the St. | 4/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGlobal Activism: Organization provides integrative healthcare to patients in Nepal | Each Thursday on our Global Activism series, we hear about an individual who’s decided to work to make the world a better place.Grainne McKeown is the founder of Mindful Medicine Worldwide. | 4/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGlobal Activism: Providing healthcare services in Haiti | Each Thursday on Global Activism, we hear about an individual who’s decided to work to make the world a better place. | 3/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGlobal Activism: getting young kids involved in service | Each Thursday on Global Activism we hear about individuals who’ve decided to work to make the world a better place. Mary Roth and Lisa Axelrod are the founders of The Kindness Connection. | 3/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGlobal Activism: Helping to build the new South Sudan | Each Thursday on Global Activism, we hear about an individual who’s decided to work to make the world a better place. Kenneth Elispana left Sudan in 1992, fleeing from the civil war and the ongoing persecution of Sudanese Christians. | 3/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGlobal Activism: Providing occupational therapy for people with disabilities in Taiwan and Ukraine | Each Thursday on Global Activism, we hear about an individual who’s decided to work to make the world a better place. Susan Meyers is an occupational therapist and founder of the Resource Foundation. | 2/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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