"living proof" has this success story from malawi. man: my name is laitom chawinga and i have six grandchildren. i was born at home in 1948. in previous days, pregnant mothers were using unsafe methods. some would have their babies in grass huts. after giving birth, they would leave babies on the ground in the cold. we didn't know better. we had a lot of deaths. one day, hospital workers asked uso be a part of the agogo program. we go to their house. talk tooth the n anthe woma we show them pictures and tell them what can happen if they give birth at home, that the mother of the baby can ll sick or die. deaths have decreased, diseases have decreased, and life has improved. i am very happy because if the student fails, you are not a good teacher. i see fruits of what i teach, and i'm proud that i am a good teacher. narrator: access to healthcare isn't the whole story, of course. helping women must include an investment in education. in rural bangladesh, communities are learning the real value of empowering women. this film from "save t

from malawi to ecuador, see some of hlthcare's mostnventive solutions and stay tuned to see the winner of the "viewchange" film contest leadership prize. second narrator: malnutrition. every year, malnutrition kills twice as many children as aids, tuberculosis, and malaria combined. yet there is hope. an inexpensive, revolutionary therapy is saving children's lives right now. (rooster crows) since 2004, project peanut butter has been treating children in malawi, a country with one of the highest malnutrition rates in the world. (speaking native language) second narrator: as a faculty member at washington university medical school, dr. manary founded project peanut butter to bring the most effective malnutrition therapy to the children who need it most. alefa is 7 months old. she is just entering the critical 6-month-to-two-year-old window where children are most vulnerable to the impact of malnutrition. jason: alefa is, uh, severely malnourished and, um, (unclear), as you can see from the extremely small arms. second narrator: severely malnourished children at this age are at great ris

this year for the first time, a band from malawi is nominated.e artist will not be attending the ceremony. it is not the long flight holding them back. it is because they are in prison. reporter: this is home to one of africa's oldest prisons. miserable and overcrowded, it feels like a place devoid of any hope. inmates are not just serving time, they are keeping time. meet the prison project band. ♪ reporter: guards and prisoners side-by-side, now with an album to their name and nominated for a prestigious grammy award. on vocals he is serving life for , murder. james on guitar sentenced to 12 years. and he faces an eight-year jail term. for many, their musical talent only surfaced in jail. now they are competing with the best in the world. i'm very humbled considering i am a prisoner, he says. i never expected we could achieve something like this. when i get out of prison, i want to continue with my musical career. their success is partly down to an american producer who spotted their talent, record of their songs in jail, and gave them a record

to determine the origin of the 6 and a half tons of ivory seized in singapore and shipped out of malawi. it all came from a neighboring country, zambia. wasser's team had made a discovery that would revolutionize law enforcement's approach to poaching >> basically this study debunked some of the assumptions that you and interpol had about how these activities were working? what were those assumptions? >> so there were assumptions that law enforcement in general had, and one was ...when you get a big seizure, they were cherry picked from all over africa, and what we showed was that is not what is happening. that there are poached in the same area over and over and over again. >> the plight of the african elephant has been well-documented. these heartbreaking images were shot in a sanctuary for elephant orphins in kenya, >> from before, the biggest enemy of elephants... >> this two year old being bottle fed stood by his mother's body for three days after she was murdered for her tusks. >> first you kill the bulls then they kill the matriarchs so now you are destroying the leadership in yo

it seems perfectly normal that the new york-based international rescue committee goes to malawi or goes to burma, or goes wherever, just ask yourself what people in this country, maybe not you that what most people in this country would have thought if during katrina the venezuelan government had sent eighteenths, and yet there is no difference, katrina was is royally botched as any emergency in modern memory, the same description you gave of these governments remove south could have been given of all the actors from georgia bushes fema administrators. in the end, absent world government, nations have to work it out. history doesn't go at the same speed everywhere. if i could show you books written by british imperial travelers about singapore in 1900 saying that the climate in the confucian culture made it absolutely impossible that these people could amount to anything. it's on many measures the most prosperous and impure health outcomes, educational wealth, et cetera to countries in the world. things change. i. i do not think the imperial messages going -- is sustainable anyway. i me