you start as an ngo. you get soft owner money in. lots of donations. grants, all these. you pump the money in and build up -- you can't call it equity. equity is a for-profit concept. you build up reserves. you can can extremely profitable as an ngo. you can't distribute the profit to shareholders. there's nothing stopping you converts to a for-profit share holding company at the later date. it's called transformation. this is the big holy grail. what is the first of the lesser of the two holy grails. build up the institution with soft, nice donor money. convert it to a for-profit institution. all the shares are distributed to the management and the people some of the people who provided the original capital. build it up more, now it's for-profit. the only problem being you're regulated. it's a bit annoying to be regulated. they might complain about your activities. you can survive that a few years. you go the stock market. you make the big bucks. so it's a schain of events. it's the standard chain of events which all the institutions go through. >> okay. we just got tim

supermarkets in nearb owns >> tlator:d we di in an zed organiy taking basic food stuff to deliver to an ngo right where it hurts the most and that's why the authorities are nervous. >> reporter: most of the people taking part in this march are unemployed farm workers union leaders say and dozens of them took part in the recent supermarket incidents. a jobless farm worker with a wife and daughter took part. >> translator: i took part like the others in a symbolic protest against the crisis we are suffering. he and six others were arrested at a supermarket. they are charged with robbery. sanchez has political immunity. the conservative government blasted him for flauting the law but he says these are desperate times. the jobless rate in spain is more than 24%, but here it's 33%. for months there's been large protests across spain against the cutbacks and tax hikes that the government says are needed to reduce the deficit and revive the economy. the prime minister has vowed to stay the course. >> translator: right now we see no sign he's going to change. all we see are police, arrests, repress

ngo plan to visit the u.s. at the end of this week. they will meet with members of an american ngo to discuss how to work together to tackle the tsunami debris issue. officials from japan's environment ministry will go along as observers. >>> the european central bank says it will maintain its benchmark interest rate. the bank's policymakers decided to keep the interest rate at a record low of 0.75%. the ecb had cut the rate at its monthly meeting in july to support the region's ailing economy. the deposit rate will also be maintained at 0%. ecb president mario droge said at a press conference that the central bank is ready to make outright open market purchases to stabilize eurozone borrowing costs. >>> the greek people are struggling to cope with harsh austerity measures. life in greece may soon become even more difficult. the greek government has agreed to further budget cuts. the country needs to sharply reduce spending to obtain more money from its creditors. greece will have to find additional savings of 11.5 billion euros, or over $14 billion. the european union

last year to zambia in a small farm and there is a guy named dale lewis who works for an ngo called the mako that he founded. he was there to save elephants commercially but he founded he couldn't stop poaching unless poaching had higher income levels. so we taught them how to farm and the next level they needed this communication by farmers said they could get information, et cetera. so we helped with some radios, to help with communication to buy product and get in some of our stores. so we love those kind of stories and examples. .. comparison with out of market except all of the united states. and then second question is what is the most concerned issue for [inaudible] market? thank you. >> we have a great team in china. we started there with one store in 1996, i believe it was. and have now a lot of experience people there and they're very good item merchants. what that means to us when the stores there, our associates will grab me by the arm and take me over and show an item and telling me how they're selling more of the item. they have taken to walmart culture in an effective way

we have an environmental third-party ngo that comes in and certifies that we are doing everything rightd so it was shocking that the government would seize on something that was the whole pint of this that we were being investigated under. so, you know, there was nothing wrong with it. and the government's case revolved around something that is a nonlegal issue which is the tariff code that was applied to the finger boards. and in our settlement they agreed there was no problem with importing wood from india nor the way that we were doing it and they are returning the finger boards they seized. >> mike: so basically after all of this time, guns ablazing in your face and everything they have done to virtually scare the daylights out of your employees, a year later they say well, nothing is really wrong but you end up having to settle with them just to get them off your back be? >> yeah. and a even further we have not been able to import from a major supplier which is india since they did it the raid. and so we had to replace all of have to substitutethey seized other materials with no no

these bonds are allowing the you in an ngo partners to provide food and food vouchers, improve sanitation safe drinking water, and basic health services to help the other urgent needs. u.s. aid is providing more than $74 million for food security and nutrition programs, enabling unicef to rapidly scale of assistance for starving children. with u.s. support, unicef and the world health organization completed a large scale immunization campaign which may have successfully halted a polio outbreak that began last year. it -- get even with these efforts so many yemenis remain in desperate need. we commend the european union for doubling humanitarian aid and urged other donors to policy by contributing more to the u.n. humanitarian response plant, which is less than 50 percent funded. this will provide a critical and life-saving aid to millions of yemenis. as we help address immediate -- immediate humanitarian needs we're partnering in the fourth area, economic reforms and development necessary for long-term progress. in fact, the $68 million in transitional assistance and economic development

last year to zambia in a small farm and there is a guy named dale lewis who works for an ngo called the mako that he founded. he was there to save elephants commercially but he founded he couldn't stop poaching unless poaching had higher income levels. so we taught them how to farm and the next level they needed this communication by farmers said they could get information, et cetera. so we helped with some radios, to help with communication to buy product and get in some of our stores. so we love those kind of stories and examples. .. comparison with out of market except all of the united states. and then second question is what is the most concerned issue for [inaudible] market? thank you. >> we have a great team in china. we started there with one store in 1996, i believe it was. and have now a lot of experience people there and they're very good item merchants. what that means to us when the stores there, our associates will grab me by the arm and take me over and show an item and telling me how they're selling more of the item. they have taken to walmart culture in an effective way

we have an environmental third-party ngo that comes in and certifies that we are doing everything rightd so it was shocking that the government would seize on something that was the whole pint of this that we were being investigated under. so, you know, there was nothing wrong with it. and the government's case revolved around something that is a nonlegal issue which is the tariff code that was applied to the finger boards. and in our settlement they agreed there was no problem with importing wood from india nor the way that we were doing it and they are returning the finger boards they seized. >> mike: so basically after all of this time, guns ablazing in your face and everything they have done to virtually scare the daylights out of your employees, a year later they say well, nothing is really wrong but you end up having to settle with them just to get them off your back be? >> yeah. and a even further we have not been able to import from a major supplier which is india since they did it the raid. and so we had to replace all of the raw materials they seized and then we have to substi

we have an environmental third-party ngo that comes in and certifies that we are doing everything rightt the government would seize on something that was the whole pint of this that we were being investigated under. so, you know, there was nothing wrong with it. and the government's case revolved around something that is a nonlegal issue which is the tariff code that was applied to the finger boards. and in our settlement they agreed there was no problem with importing wood from india nor the way that we were doing it and they are returning the finger boards they seized. >> mike: so basically after all of this time, guns ablazing in your face and everything they have done to virtually scare the daylights out of your employees, a year later they say well, nothing is really wrong but you end up having to settle with them just to get them off your back be? >> yeah. and a even further we have not been able to import from a major supplier which is india since they did it the raid. and so we had to replace all of the raw materials they seized and then we have to substitute other materials wit

one executive at a japanese ngo believes that's unacceptable. he says this is an historical record and should be made public even if access is limited. >>> every summer in japan brings a moment of reflection. monday, august 6th, marked the 67th anniversary of the atomic bombing of hiroshima. here on "newsline" part two on the two-week series on the devastation of war and peace. and "black rain" published 50 years ago it's become a classic for its bold depiction of the horrors of nuclear weapons. the title comes from the radioactive rain that fell after the bombing spreading contamination. the main character is a man who witnessed the blinding blast. the character actually existed. radiation sickness kept him in and out of hospital until he passed away in 1980. nhk world's reporter interviewed his stepson. >> all of them, what he saw and experienced. >> roofed tiles are covering the roads. it's like a jungle. >> later, shigematsu came to know. buse and asked him to write a novel based on the diaries. he wanted more people to realize the dreadfulness of nuclear weap

an unfortunate life. the new life center is operated by local ngos to give underprivileged children a new start and the opportunity to go to school. making things like these key rings teaches them skills. their handiwork will go on sale earning money to supplement the donations that fund the center. this 8-year-old came to the center seven months ago from her home in the bangkok slum community. >> translator: i'm painting my mom's face. >> fueng and her 5-year-old brother pham have found a new family at the shelter. even so, they still miss home. their mother got pregnant at a very young age. she contracted hiv from their stepfather, a drug addict. they relied on the children to find food. fueng and pham had no chance to go to school. their situation attracted the sympathy of neighbors who reached out to the new life project for help. >> translator: the two kids were undernourished, very thin and unhealthy and also looked hopeless. it took several months before i could persuade the parents to let us take on the kids. >> reporter: official data suggests the number of people living in bangkok slums has soared 70% in

so, namely women and children and so, you know, we went to an event in calcutta where women who had been sold into sex slavery were being -- ngosur there meeting with the women, meeting with the the ngo leaders. what you see is she really -- she really validates the cause. she does draw the spotlight to it, it got tremendous attention. you really saw how it affected these women. >> sounds like she is always working. >> she was always working. >> she does not go to a country and says where is the nearest four seasons and i want to get in a couple of sets in. >> she actually -- yeah that is the bizarre thing. she stays in the nicest room in town, a 13-room suite in demly, and probably spent, i don't know, four hours in it. there is no down time. >> she is unaffected by time zone changes, unaffected by jet lag. she is sleep on command. >> how is that possible? how can you be totally unaffected by it? is there any pharmaceutical help? >> oh, my. >> no pharmaceutical help, which makes it all the more extraordinary. she doesn't take any sleeping pills. she doesn't take any pharmaceuticals. she -- as -- her accommodation on the plane,

the nigerian ngo and burma to rights action says it's observed an extensive spell on the brass rivern the niger delta. shell has shut down an oil processing site, but denies claims of a large spill. the news comes days after exxon mobil acknowledged a separate oil spill in the delta. a u.n. report one year ago said the region will already need 30 years and around $1 billion to at least partially recover from environmental damage caused by major oil companies over the past several decades. the state department is calling on the kingdom of bahrain to vacate charges against a prominent human rights activist who has just been sentenced to three years in prison. nabeel rajab, the president of the rain center for human rights, was detained in june after criticizing u.s.-backed the rain regime and twitter messages and in media appearances, including one on "democracy now!" he was sentenced to three years this week in what amnesty international called "the end of the facade of reform and a rain." speaking to reporters on thursday, state department spokesperson victoria nuland initially decli

ngos to tackle the problem. nhk world's kohemi yamano has the story from oregon. >> reporter: the government staff met with locals on an oregon beach this week. since last january, the debris starting appearing. people saw the debris which came from a japan area. >> it is a concern because it is a beautiful beach. >> reporter: the state has set up facilities for the debris. the containers are quickly overflowing. >> as we look toward the future and we know that this is going to go on for maybe years to come, we really have to have a significant source of funding to keep up with the problem. >> reporter: the japanese survey team also met with civic groups from across the u.s. they said the debris has washed up in four other states, including california and hawaii. >> we are appreciative of this to start the dialogue. we look forward to dialogues moving forward. >> translator: civic groups and governments have different areas of expertise. we'll work together to come up with a better solution. >> reporter: total debris is estimated at over 1 million tons. more is expected to arrive in october. without international coope

we did it in an organized way, he says taking the basic food stuff stuffs to deliver to the ngo, buts the most, and that is why the authorities are nervous. most of the people taking part in the march are unemployed farm workers the union leaders say, and dozens of them took place in the recent supermarket incidents. like this jobless farm worker with a wife and daughter. >> translator: i took part like the others in a symbolic protest against the crisis we are suffer i ing, above all, the working class. >> reporter: and he and six others were arrested at the supermarket and charged with robbery. and sanchez gordillo is charged with flaunting the law, but he says it is desperate times. spain's jobless rate is 24%, but here in this town, it is 33%. for months, there have been large protests across spain against the cutbacks and tax hikes that the government says are needed to reduce the deficit and revive the economy, but prime minister mariano arroy refuses. we see no signs he is going to change. all we see is repression and hunger. on this day, the police watch the marchers walk by,

and that's all we're making an effort to reach out to community-based organizations, to business leaders, to foundations, ngos, to faith organizations and others. and this evening, i'm proud to announce four new public-private collaborations that make it easier for americans to get hiv care. first, we are launching a partnership with walgreens to begin a three-year trial exploring how pharmacies can help their patients stay on medication. second -- [applause] and that's a good deal. second, we're working with medscape, the leading provider of online continuing education or u.s. clinicians to create new training programs to help our health care providers better understand and address the needs of their patients with hiv. [applause] third, we are announcing to partnerships with the mac aids fund, a mobile texting pilot program called ucare4life, to help patients get important reminders and tips for managing their disease, and a joint project with pepfar that will bring together international leaders to explore how lessons learned through 10 for -- through pepfar can be applied back in the united states. [applau

an ad not -- if only anin hoc way building is social enterprise model? >> let me take a crack at this. a lot of ngo's have worked on to the element of credible standards, and the goal is to reward good producers who have good impacts and have less impact on the ground and to make -- give them access to better markets for doing that. that has moved in many different commodities, in many different spheres, but what we are also seeing is most of the companies interested in this and most of the ngo's are focusing on the top 15%, 20%, and that can hold may be the top 50%. who will move the bottom? the bottom, the poorest performing 30%, cause 50% or more of the impacts. they produce 2% of the products. if we did not move the bottom, we do not change very much. we have to take the lessons from what the private sector is doing and innovations, turned those into business cases for efficiency and for the business model, and sell that the governments said they feel comfortable moving the bottom, because we have to move the bottom. the cannot just be focused on the top. we need regulations. we need that kind of