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Any infrastructure plan that ignores the needs of children is a failed plan.
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Young teenagers used as mules in Campo Grande drugs trade.
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With the Presidential election in full-swing here are four things President Obama and the Congress can do to help children, now.
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It really is past time for the United States to join the rest of the world in ratifying the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
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If we can imagine a world where a tiny tax on financial transactions generates hundreds of billions of dollars every year to be used to alleviate poverty, it would be fair to ask, "Who gets this money", "How do we deliver money and services to the poor?" and, "How can we be sure the aid won't be stolen or wasted?"
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For the past twenty years, I have filmed children all over the world in every conceivable form of poverty and abuse, from global child labor (Stolen Childhoods, 2004) to the struggles of street children (Rescuing Emmanuel, 2009). The Same Heart is the third film in this trilogy, and it confronts one of the central issues of our time: growing inequality and poverty with its impacts on children in the U.S. and abroad.
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The playground appeared perfectly normal with students clustered here and there laughing and enjoying their lunch break. But if you looked closely, you’d notice another group milling about or sitting alone, the students with empty lunch pails.
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Len Morris is interviewed for Worldview on WBEZ 91.5 Chicago Public Radio about The Same Heart.
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If you believe as we do that inequality and poverty have created an emergency for today's children and that a financial transaction tax can provide the funding needed to meet children's needs, please show The Same Heart to your friends, organizations and classmates.
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Filming in Kenya in late 2012 we interacted with hundreds of children; at their schools, in their homes and as we crisscrossed the country in our production van. The filming had gone on for weeks and it was depressing to see these bedraggled babies, with their rags and obvious malnutrition. We wished a major charity was in the van, handing out food aid and clean water but we settled on lollipops, thousands and thousands of lollipops.
We'd see a group of children by the side of the road and stop and prepare for a lollipop moment, a way of giving love with no strings attached.
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House Resolution 2764 needs to be moved out of committee and brought up for a vote to protect children working in the fields in these United States.
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It was two years ago that I lost my dear friend and partner in filmmaking Robin Romano. Much has happened in those two years that Robin would have appreciated. Children's human rights took center stage with the election of Kailash Satyarthi and Malala as last year's Nobel Peace Laureates.
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More of Robin Romano's photographs of children around the world.
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U.R. (Robin) Romano (1956-2013) had a rare gift of being able to reveal a child's spirit in his photography. These are some of his best shots, capturing children from around the world.
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A profile of six students supported by the Kenyan Schoolhouse program (kenyanschoolhouse.org) at the Kimana Secondary School, a provincial high school located near Mount Kilimanjaro in southeastern Kenya. 70% of the students come from the Masai tribe.
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