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>> scott pelley: about ten times a month now, an innocent person is freed from an american prison. they're exonerated, sometimes after decades, because of new evidence, new confessions, or the forensic science of dna. there is joy the day that justice arrives, but we wondered, what happens the day after? you're about to meet three

people who have returned to life from unjust convictions. as we first told you in january, one of them, ray hinton, was on death row. and he remembers, too vividly, the alabama electric chair and the scent that permeated the cell block when a man was met by 2,000 volts. hinton waited his turn for nearly 30 years until this past april. that's when ray hinton stepped out of the shadow of execution, taking the first steps that he chose for himself since 1985. what was that moment like? >> ray hinton: as though i was walking on clouds. i wanted to get away, in case they changed they mind, you know. >> pelley: you still didn't believe it. >> hinton: i was not going to allow myself to really believe that i was free until i was actually free.

>> pelley: free to visit his mother, who went to her grave believing her son would be executed. the cemetery was hinton's first destination. and he was startled by a world that had moved on without him. >> hinton: we headed toward the graveyard, and a voice come on and said, "at two-point-so-many miles, turn right." and i said, "what the hell? who is that?" and he said his gps tracker. i knew i didn't see no white lady get in that car. i wanted to know how did she get in that car and what is she doing in this car. man, come on. >> pelley: any voice tended to be a surprise. on death row, hinton spent most of every day alone. after 30 years inside, mostly by yourself, did you worry about coming back out into the world? >> hinton: you get out and you just out.

if you don't have a place to live or money or whatever, you ask yourself, "what am i going to do?" but my best friend stuck by me for 30 years. and he had already told me, "whenever you get out, you come live with me and my wife." >> pelley: what did you have to learn after you got out? >> hinton: i'm still learning. i'm still learning that i can take a bath every day. i'm still learning that i don't have to get up at 3:00 in the morning and eat breakfast. i'm still learning that life is not always what we think it is. >> pelley: ray hinton's life was never what he thought it would be after 1985, when he was misidentified by a witness who picked him out of a mug shot book. his picture was in there after a theft conviction. when police found a gun in his mother's house, a lieutenant told him that he'd been arrested in three shootings, including

the murders of two restaurant managers. >> hinton: i said, "you got the wrong guy." and he said, "i don't care whether you did it or don't." he said, "but you going to be convicted for it. and you know why?" i said, "no." he said, "you got a white man. they going to say you shot him. going to have a white d.a. we going to have a white judge. you going to have a white jury, more than likely." and he said, "all of that spell conviction, conviction, conviction." i said, "well, does it matter that i didn't do it?" he said, "not to me." >> pelley: the lieutenant denied saying that. but hinton was convicted at age 30. he was 57 when the u.s. supreme court ruled nine to zero that his defense had been ineffective. a new ballistics test found that the gun was not the murder weapon. >> hinton: 30 years ago, a judge proudly stood up and said, "i

sentence you to die." 30 years later, no one had the decency to say, "mr. hinton, we sorry for... we sorry for what took place." no one have said it. >> pelley: what did the state of alabama give you to help you get back up on your feet? >> hinton: they dropped all charges and that was it. >> pelley: no money? >> hinton: no. >> pelley: no suit of clothes? >> hinton: nothing. no. >> pelley: and that is where many states are failing the growing number of exonerated prisoners. it turns out, in alabama, if ray hinton had committed murder and was released on parole, he would have been eligible for job training, housing assistance, and a bus ticket home. but most states offer no immediate help to the innocent

who's convictions can be embarrassing because of misconduct or incompetence by police or prosecutors. >> bryan stevenson: you can't traumatize someone, try to kill someone, condemn someone, lock someone down for 30 years, and not feel some responsibility for what you've done. >> pelley: attorney bryan stevenson worked on ray hinton's case for 16 years. stevenson started the equal justice initiative, one of a growing number of legal organizations overturning false convictions. >> stevenson: they need support- - they need economic support, they need housing support, they need medical support, they need mental health care. they need to know that their victimization, their abuse has been taken seriously. >> ken ireland: it was just absolutely unimaginable and i couldn't even explain the horror of it. >> pelley: ken ireland lost 21 years. he was misidentified by witnesses who collected a $20,000 reward. convicted in a 1986 rape and

murder, dna proved his innocence. >> good morning. >> good morning, sir. >> pelley: because of the rare perspective of an innocent man who's done hard time, the governor put ireland on connecticut's parole board. >> at some point in your life, sir, you have to step up. >> pelley: so this is your new cell? >> ireland: well, yeah, for eight hours a day. >> pelley: it took five years to get this job. at first, he lived with his sister and he found work as a counselor for troubled kids. >> ireland: i got a little small apartment in town. i mean, there was the nights where i just barricaded myself in a big walk-in closet and slept in there. just thinking, you know, someone's going to come kick down my door and drag me back. >> pelley: you slept in a closet? >> ireland: yeah, yeah, a few times, i have. >> pelley: are you over that now, six years later? >> ireland: yeah, i don't have them issues now. it gets easier and easier every day. >> pelley: one thing that made it easier was connecticut's new law that compensates the wrongly convicted. a year ago, ireland was the

first to get a check. what did the state give you? >> ireland: $6 million. >> pelley: $6 million!? >> ireland: right, and... >> pelley: wow. >> ireland: that's more than most states are giving. >> pelley: well, it comes to something like $300,000 a year for every year you spent in prison. and you say it's not worth it? >> ireland: oh, absolutely not. absolutely not. they could give me $5 million for every year and it still wouldn't be worth it. >> pelley: ken ireland was fortunate, if you can call it that. many states offer no compensation at all. one is julie baumer's home, michigan. other than the time, what have you lost? >> julie baumer: everything. everything. my life is nothing as it was. >> pelley: in 2003, baumer was a mortgage broker raising her sister's baby. he became ill, so she took him to an emergency room. doctors there suspected the boy had been shaken until his brain was damaged. baumer was convicted of child abuse.

she was in her fifth year in prison when new evidence showed that the boy had suffered a natural stroke. she was retried, acquitted, and the judge apologized. after she was released, for a time, she was homeless. how did you start over? >> baumer: it was very, very, very rough. you start from the bottom reclaiming your identity. i didn't have an i.d. and then, after i jumped over that hurdle, then you start applying for jobs. and then you have to go through "okay, well, now there's a five gap... year gap on your reeésumeee. why is this?" and then, you tell your potential employer the truth. in my case, i never got phone calls back. >> pelley: there was no support for you of any kind. >> baumer: no. ( phone rings ) our lady of redemption. >> pelley: julie baumer now works for a detroit-area parish. >> baumer: thank you. god bless. hopefully, my testimony as an exoneree... >> pelley: in her spare time she's lobbying michigan's legislature for a compensation law. >> baumer: no amount of money

can ever bring back everything that i've lost. >> pelley: no one can fail to see the injustice in these cases. but when it comes to compensation, there are people watching this interview who are saying, "you know, it was just bad luck, and we don't necessarily owe them for the life that they lost." >> stevenson: this isn't luck, this was a system. this was actually our justice system. it was our tax dollars who paid for the police officers who arrested mr. hinton; our tax dollars that paid for the judge and the prosecutor that prosecuted him; that paid for the experts who got it wrong; that paid to keep him on death row for 30 years for a crime he didn't commit. this has nothing to do with luck. this has everything to do with the way we treat those who are vulnerable in our criminal justice system. >> pelley: ray hinton is considering applying for compensation, but alabama has paid only one exoneree after 41 claims. in the meantime, attorney bryan stevenson has been hinton's

guide to advances like a.t.m.s and smart phones, and to frustrations that never change, like getting a license at the d.m.v. >> hinton: whether i ever catch up with the world, i don't know, but i'm going to try. >> pelley: hinton is working part-time now, speaking about justice and faith. >> hinton: i just never, never believed that god would allow me to die for something that i didn't do. i didn't know how he was going to work it out, but i believed that he would work it out. i can't get over the fact that, just because i was born black, and someone that had the authority who happened to be white felt the need to send me to a cage and try to take my

life for something that they knew that i didn't do. >> pelley: of course, they did take ray hinton's life. a false conviction isn't about lost time-- it's the loss of an education, a marriage, the chance to start a family, settle into a job and build a pension. the only thing alabama didn't take was the breath from his body. are you angry? >> hinton: no. >> pelley: how could you not be? three decades of your life, most all of your life. >> hinton: they took 30 years of my life, as you said. what joy i have, i cannot afford to give that to them. and so, being angry is... would be giving them... letting them win. >> pelley: you'd still be in prison. >> hinton: oh absolutely. i am a person that love to laugh. i love to see other people smile. and how can i smile when i'm

full of hate? and so, the 30 years that they got from me, i count today... i count every day as a joy. >> pelley: since our story first aired, ken ireland left his job at the connecticut board of pardons and paroles, bought an r.v. and is travelling across the united states, making up for lost time. >> cbs money watch update sponsored by lincoln financial. you're in charge. >> quijano: good evening. on friday the labor department is expected to announce 180,000 jobs were added this month. chinese investors say they will pay over $4 billion for caesar's interactive mobile games. and barnes & noble expects the new harry potter book, out today, to be its biggest-selling book of the year. i'm elaine quijano, cbs news.

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>> alfonsi: one of the most significant efforts to study changes in the climate has been taking place near the top of the world. as we first reported earlier this year, it's a place called peteglacier in greenland, one of the largest glaciers in the arctic circle, and a glacier that has experienced dramatic melting. it is a harsh and dangerous environment, and it has drawn some of the world's leading climate scientists, who are only able to work there a little over a month a year. we wanted to see how that work is proceeding, how they are able to move equipment and people in

such a hostile place, and what they've discovered so far, so we went to the top of the world to find out. our journey took us 700 miles above the arctic circle to the u.s.' thule air force base in northern greenland, built at the start of the cold war to watch for soviet missiles. it is an alien landscape, home to curious arctic hares and packs of pre-historic looking muskoxs. from there, we flew even further. the destination: petermann glacier. it's on the northwest coast of greenland, just a few hundreds miles south of the north pole. to get there in a helicopter took us four hours over a rarely seen landscape that is both severe and serene. the last town we'd see was

qaanaaq, with 700 residents and more huskies than people. locked in by ice nine months of the year, villagers have always hunted seal and narwhal to survive. greenland is three times the size of texas, and 80% of it is covered in ice, but it now loses more ice than it gains in snowfall every year. we saw evidence of the imbalance everywhere-- blue gashes across the ice, rivers of rushing melt water, and the occasional thunderous crack of icebergs dropping into the sea. we still had 300 miles to go, and stopped twice to refuel along the way. these barrels were left behind for us by the scientists who made the trip to petermann glacier three weeks earlier. this is the ultimate self- service gas station in the

middle of nowhere. this will keep us going for how much longer? >> malik jensen: yeah, we can fly two and a half hours. >> alfonsi: our pilots, native greenlanders, kept a rifle nearby at each stop to protect us from polar bears. have you seen polar bears out here? >> jensen: yeah, a lot. so now, it's ready, always safe. >> alfonsi: finally, we arrived at petermann glacier. >> ah, there's the camp. >> alfonsi: and spotted the ice camp below. >> alan mix: great to see you. >> alfonsi: so who did you upset to get put out here? >> keith nicholls: i know-- the gods, the gods. >> alfonsi: keith nicholls is an expert in drilling in remote places. and in terms of remote, this would be really hard to beat. it feels like you're on another planet. >> nicholls: take a walk around here and you can be expecting scotty to beam you up. it is extraordinary. >> alfonsi: nicholls and a team of scientists were drawn to this remote sliver of greenland, in part, by these satellite images.

in 2010, a chunk of ice four times the size of manhattan broke off. then, two years later, another large chunk came down. the glacier has receded by 20 miles in five years. nicholls and his team are trying to drill beneath it. this is a lot of work in difficult conditions. what do you hope to learn? >> nicholls: what we're trying to learn is how the oceans are interacting with the ice, how they are melting it, trying to predict how in the future that melting might change. >> alfonsi: to drill through the ice, they heated melt water from the glacier to make a hot-water drill to pierce through the 300- foot thick ice. there has to be serious challenges to running equipment like this in this kind of weather. >> nicholls: the biggest challenge is that we've got water and it's very cold. so, if we have water freezing in hoses, that can be devastating for the project.

>> alfonsi: this is the moment the coring machine struck the bottom of the seafloor. a half-mile beneath the ice, they made history. it was the first time anyone has ever collected sediment from beneath the ice shelf in greenland. >> nicholls: the ocean beneath the ice shelves is probably the least accessible part of the world's ocean. and just getting access to that is a triumph, frankly, as far as we're concerned. >> alfonsi: the ice shelf extends out from the glacier and floats on the ocean. they believe it acts like a dam, holding back the ice from sliding into the sea. if it goes away, sea levels go up. is there a sense of urgency in the work that you're doing? >> nicholls: sea level rise is the big... the big question that we're trying to get at. and petermann glacier, this experiment here, gives us an opportunity to get at those processes and try to understand the basic physics as to how that can happen. >> alfonsi: our visit to the ice camp was cut short.

our pilots warned us something called "ice fog" was moving in and could strand us here for days. we high-tailed it back to the helicopter, heading to another outpost of the expedition-- what the scientists call "boulder camp," set up on the edge of petermann glacier. shaun marcott and a team of geologists have been here for weeks, gathering samples from rocks. >> shaun marcott: so, this was probably deposited when the ice was maybe a few hundred to a few thousand feet thicker, and when it was deposited, you're probably talking about maybe 500, 600 feet of ice above us. >> alfonsi: above where we are right now? >> marcott: above where we are now. peterman would've been much larger, and it would've been dropping these rocks all over the surface. >> alfonsi: to the person at home who's looking at you guys just chipping away at rocks and going, "why should i care about this?" >> marcott: we know that if you warm the planet up, glaciers respond, they melt. the question is, at what rate? how fast is that going to happen, and where is it going to happen, and where are the most

vulnerable spots in this ice sheet? to understand all of that, you have to understand how the ice sheet... what controls an ice sheet. we need to understand this glacier, so that we can provide a better prediction for the larger ice sheet. that matters to us because of sea level. if these glaciers can respond dynamically, then we should all be concerned, because that can create dynamic changes in sea level and flood infrastructure. and we need to know that for planning for the future. >> alfonsi: we camped out next to the scientists. with 24 hours of light, we slept in these tents under the midnight sun. in the morning, we were shuttled out to meet the "oden," a swedish ice breaker making its way around petermann glacier. the "oden" supports the scientists on land and acts as a floating laboratory. named after a norse god who relentlessly sought wisdom, it's home to more than 50 climate scientists from around the world with similar convictions.

their work is funded mostly by the swedish government and the u.s.' national science foundation. larry mayer is one of the geologists on the "oden". he's using sonar to map the ocean floor, creating the first detailed maps that show how petermann glacier slid into the sea. you can see it, like skid marks of a car at an accident scene. >> larry mayer: oh yeah - the ice went here and the ice went there. and we can see it. oh and it stopped here. >> alfonsi: how much of the world's oceans have been mapped with this kind of detail? >> larry mayer: oh, probably on the order of 6% to 7%. >> alfonsi: six-- >> larry mayer: very, very little. yeah. >> alfonsi: you can only make the trip to petermann glacier a few weeks each summer when the ice melts enough to allow passage. >> alan mix: you can see those blocks of ice drifting by. >> alfonsi: expedition leader alan mix is running the ships coring operation, trying to grab sediment from the seafloor. >> alan mix: so actually, the coring site right now is under that block of ice and we just can't get there. so we're trying to drift with

the ice and just sort of sneak up on it gently. >> alfonsi: it's hard to sneak up on anything in an ice breaker. the "oden" doesn't so much as sail as it does smash the ice like a 13,000-ton hammer. once in position, they throw something called a piston corer, like a dart, at the bottom of the ocean. >>alan mix: oh, that doesn't sound good. go to the next one but we'll hit it with the gravity core. >> alfonsi: a core sample like this is collected. inside the ships lab, the multi- year process of investigating those cores begins. what's your best guess? how old is this? >> anne jennings: so the base of this core probably is no more than 10,000 years. >> alfonsi: anne jennings is with the institute of arctic and alpine research. she says each core holds clues about petermann glacier's past. >> anne jennngs: well, we didn't

really expect to find things living under the ice shelf but we have. >> alfonsi: what have you found? >> anne jennings: this one we've found is called cibicidioides wuellferfstorfi. it has a big name for a little bug. >> alfonsi: easy for you to say! it looks like a little seashell. >> anne jennings: and it is a sea shell but it is a single celled animal. >> alfonsi: that single celled animal, like all living creatures, is made out of carbon, allowing scientists to determine when it lived. which tells you what? >> anne jennings: the age of the sediments. so we can take them the depth scale here and convert it to age. and then we can say, "when did the ice retreat? how quickly did it retreat? was there a lot of melt water coming out?" >> alfonsi: you can get all that from what looks like mud? >> anne jennings: yes. >> alfonsi: after a week in greenland, we headed home but the scientists kept working, taking advantage of the final days of the short arctic summer. the 66 core samples they collected during their month at

sea will be studied by scientists around the world for decades. >> peter demenocal: this is the largest core depository in the world. >> alfonsi: peter demenocal is a paleo climatologist at columbia university. he says the cores collected in greenland are like a black box of the earth's inner workings. this one he collected just south of greenland. >> peter demenocal: so this is today's climate and we've had about 10,000 years of relatively warm climate. and then we go 10,000 years in the past - boom, there's the last ice age. this is when long island was formed and cape cod was formed. and you can go on, and you can just find this color. it's filled with these rocks, what we call ice rafted detritus, until this period when - whoa, there's another warm phase. and then another cold phase, and then another warm phase. a short cold phase, a longer warm phase and then - boom, another ice age. and so you've had cold, warm, cold, warm, cold, warm, today.

>> alfonsi: how do we know that the warming we're seeing now, how do we not know it's part of this warm, cold, warm, cold? >> peter demenocal: that's a great question. these transitions are gradual. and kind of almost like a tide wave or something. and this transition, when you get to today, goes boom. suddenly very warm. >> alfonsi: demenocal says the cores pulled from petermann glacier will fill in a crucial piece of the climate change puzzle. how impressive was it that they got to petermann glacier? >> peter demenocal: it's impressive. what's more impressive is that we haven't been there every year and that we're not going-- not doing this every year. we should be doing this-- we should be monitoring this whole system with much greater focus than we are now. >> alfonsi: how quickly have we seen the changes in greenland? >> peter demenocal: the changes that are happening right now as a result of human activities are remarkable. and they're happening incredibly fast and they're-- it's not only happening fast but it's accelerating. and it's important to really get our mind around what we're saying there.

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>> bill whitaker: tanzania is an east african country of staggering beauty and devastating poverty. half the population of 51 million is under the age of 14, many of them orphaned, abandoned or abused. for the last ten years, in a remote northern corner of the country, hundreds of children in need of care have found refuge and protection in a mountainside oasis called the rift valley children's village. it's not just a safe haven, it's their home. it's run by an american woman, india howell, and peter leon massy, her tanzanian business partner. they're like the odd couple; she's impatient and blunt, he's cool and diplomatic. together they are parents to 94 children and counting, the biggest extended family we've ever seen. and as we reported in may, when we heard of this extraordinary place, we had to go see for ourselves.

tanzania attracts about a million tourists a year, and this is one of the reasons why. the ngorongoro crater, where the wildlife is so abundant, so diverse, you almost can't believe your eyes. just over the ridge of this magnificent place lies our destination, and it's not easy to get there. after a day on planes, almost four hours of driving - the last 40 minutes on rutted dirt roads - under sprawling acacia trees, through coffee plantations and past villages, called camps, where the plantation workers live we entered the gates of the rift valley children's village and into another world. >> hi, bill! >> whitaker: from the beginning, you called this the rift valley children's village? >> india howell: yes. >> whitaker: not an orphanage? why? >> howell: because my kids

aren't orphans. they're not up for adoption. they never have been and never will be because they're home now. >> whitaker: india howell runs this "home" really a group of houses with her business partner and managing director, peter leon mmassy. you're the legal guardian for the children in the village? >> peter leon mmassy: yes. i am the legal guardian. india and i, we are, i mean, two legal guardians, so she is mom, and i'm dad. >> whitaker: they call you mama? >> howell: they call me mama, and then after they've watched enough disney movies, they start calling me mom, ( laughs ). >> whitaker: had you wanted to be a mom, have your own kids? >> howell: believe it or not, i don't think i was issued with the biological clock. as all of my friends became more frantic and started to marry people they would later divorce because they just wanted to have kids, i couldn't understand that drive. and here i am with more children than i can count. and i can't imagine any other way. >> whitaker: these are all your kids?

>> howell: these are all my kids. >> whitaker: so what do the kids get here? >> mmassy: i can ask you the same thing, i mean about your home. what do your kids get? so it's everything. ( laughs ) when the kids come here it's-- this is home. >> howell: you got to do a better job, this is really gross. >> whitaker: the rift valley children's village is located near the town of karatu, on nine acres of land donated by local villagers, with 90 employees, including social workers, counselors and support staff peppered throughout the year with many volunteers. there are 22 buildings, a third of which are the children's houses. each house has two deputy moms called mamas all tanzanian. the children here range from toddler to 21. >> howell: let me get you a bag for the shoes. >> whitaker: they get food, clothing shelter, education. >> howell: shh, shh, shh, it's okay. >> whitaker: and love. like most large families, the kids have regular routines. >> howell: everybody awake?

>> whitaker: they're up at dawn, get ready for school, and sit down for breakfast. >> ♪ we are family! >> whitaker: -- there's snack time, play time, and like it or not, for bobo and esau and everyone else -- bath time. establishing traditions is a big deal here, right down to birthday celebrations. >> ♪ happy birthday to you. >> whitaker: it might not be the exact date, but for a little boy like eliasi, it's his day. every child who ends up with india and peter has a story, some more poignant than others. it seems that most of the children have lost their parents or were living with relatives. and just some of the descriptions we came across here: "frightened and angry, mistreated emotionally and physically." >> howell: yeah. oh, this sweet, little girl. she witnessed her father beat her mother to death, and was probably three or four years old.

so old enough to see what was happening, but by no means old enough to have the - to be able to emotionally process that. then moved in with relatives where she was being sold. she was being prostituted out. >> whitaker: what india and peter have undertaken is no easy feat. and it all started with a trip india took to tanzania in 1998, which had nothing to do with children. how did you end up here in northern tanzania? >> howell: my mother asked the same question many times; quite by accident, actually. i agreed to go climb kilimanjaro with one of my best friends for her 40th birthday. i had no interest in africa whatsoever, but stepped off the plane and knew that i was home. >> whitaker: the feeling was so strong that after the climb, india went back to the u.s., quit her job and applied for one with a safari company.

she was hired and within three months was back in tanzania. why did you choose this area? peter, who grew up in poverty, but managed to make it through high school, was working to earn money for college at a safari company. india became his boss. what did you think of her? >> mmassy: it was my first time to work under- i mean, a woman boss, and an american woman boss. i was really impressed. and, she was smart, and she had this sense of humor, and but tough lady. >> whitaker: this tough lady grew up in an exclusive enclave on the north shore of long island, new york and was c.e.o. of a business in boston, a world away from tanzania. so, you came here to work for a safari company? >> howell: right. >> whitaker: and end up founding a children's village. >> howell: right, that seems like a big jump, but actually, there's a thread.

so, part of my job required that i go to the city of arusha every week and every time you got out of the car you were just swarmed with all these ragged little boys, who, i soon discovered, were what we call street children here. and my mission from the beginning was to identify these kids that are living at risk before they're driven to the streets. >> whitaker: so how did you find out that you both had this interest, in helping needy children? >> mmassy: i wrote a proposal, very small proposal, about my home village. and i showed it to india. i said, "ins, this is-- i'm really thinking that i want to do this." >> whitaker: the proposal suggested that through environmental conservation, a community can not only sustain itself but more importantly enable children to thrive. >> howell: he said, "you know, i've written a business plan." i said, "oh, i would love to see it."

>> whitaker: what did you think of this plan when you saw it? was it-- >> howell: i thought it was brilliant. >> whitaker: --this is realistic? >> howell: i thought it w-- hm? >> whitaker: did you think it was realistic? >> howell: i'm very practical in my-- no matter what idea comes to me, my first thought is, "and where does the money come from?" because it doesn't matter if it's a good idea if you can't pay for it and sustain it. >> whitaker: so peter's proposal was all but forgotten. then this happened: one of india's employees at the safari lodge told her he was not only quitting his job but abandoning his three-year old son, named doctor. just like that, india was thrust into motherhood. >> howell there's this little peanut in a shuka, which is the fabric-- that the maasai wear. and we just looked at each other. and it-- it was like we'd been looking for each other forever, and we finally found each other and he just ran into my arms and i was sunk for life. >> whitaker: riziki, also abandoned by her birth parents, followed doctor, then came juma and india named after her new mom. now a full-time mother of four,

india decided to leave the city of arusha and the safari business and move to the countryside, where she rented a house on an old coffee plantation. >> so we had a swing right here. >> whitaker: word got out there was a lady taking in children. over the course of four years, village and church leaders and relatives started dropping off abandoned and abused children some orphaned by aids. the family grew to 17 kids. peter, in the meantime got his degree, became managing director and married his college sweetheart, grace. they now have three daughters of their own. >> that house was where peter lived. >> whitaker: doctor, the first child she took in, is now 19. >> doctor: there was something that mom was showing that my family didn't have where it was love, care that came first before anything else. >> whitaker: riziki is 21. >> raziki lemomo laizer: at

first, i was so much afraid of her. >> whitaker: why? >> laizer: when we're little kids, i mean, they just tell us, like, the white people are bad people. and when i saw her, at first i was, like, terrified. >> whitaker: actually terrified? >> laizer: uh-huh. but as time went by, i mean i got used to her and i wasn't afraid anymore. >> whitaker: now you love her? >> laizer: very much, i do. >> mika? how did we get mika's shirt? >> whitaker: as it turns out, giving kids a place to live is the easy part. >> howell: i thought i had it all figured out. i-- you know, they can go to the local public school. and i realize this school isn't a school by my definition. >> whitaker: so india and peter convinced the local elders to let them take over the administration of a primary school. this is what the elementary school looked like before. this is what it looks like today. ( bell ringing ) peter and india now run two schools primary and secondary

for their kids and almost 700 local children, like james and his friends who trek five miles every day to get here. the kids are taught in swahili and english, and they have the best scores and graduation rates in the region. even so, to accomplish anything india has had to overcome tanzanians' skepticism. locals have seen western good intentions come and go before. i know you've heard the criticism of the white woman, the white american, rushing in to save the tanzanians. how do you-- how do you-- >> howell: yes. >> whitaker: --respond to that? >> howell: i smile and nod. it-- it's-- it's very sweet and naive that people think that it could be that easy. >> whitaker: her american assertiveness often clashes with the local culture. so peter has the added title of diplomat: he smoothes tensions between india and the community. you guys make a good team.

>> mmassy: we are making a very good team, and she drives me nuts. but i love that. >> howell: if it weren't for peter, i would've been deported, because he's always explaining me. he gets the american culture but he most importantly, gets what is needed here, and how to translate all of the different ideas into something workable. >> ♪ if you're happy and you know it-- >> whitaker: the rift valley children's village runs on an annual budget of $1.3 million with the help of various family foundations and generous donors. >> we are actually showing not just our village. >> whitaker: still, india travels twice a year to the u.s. to raise money. beyond the children's village, half of the budget pays for local schools, a microfinance program with 500 clients. >> how long has she had it? >> whitaker: and a health clinic that serves 8,000 people. are you surprised by the success of the children's village? i mean, i know this was your dream long ago. but look at what you've brought

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