but for many of you, thanksgiving day was giving thursday in malawi. thanksgiving day with the emphasis on the giving. because in malawi, we changed the lives of 12 girls by giving them scholarships to attend high school. each of the girls had been in high school but had been forced to leave when they couldn't make their next tuition payment. which was less than $10. their parents couldn't come up with that to keep them in school. it wouldn't have gotten them through the whole year, but it would have gotten them through the semester. on thanksgiving day, i told the girls and their parents that they wouldn't have to worry about tuition anymore. the head teacher of the school reenrolled them that afternoon and the next day, friday, at 8:20 a.m., all of the girls were back in school, all thanks to you. sanford is a farmer. he's managed pay school fees for three of his children, but his oldest daughter, "my luck", was one of the girls sent home from school for not paying school fees. there's a drought that's hurt a lot of farmers, but it hurt him more to s

. >>> in the african nation of malawi there's a maximum security prison that's famous for two things,ions the inmates live in and the beautiful music they make. in fact, an album called "the muk of zamba prison" was nominated for an emmy. anderson cooper went to listen for "60 minutes." ♪ >> reporter: this is the music that brought us to malawi, one of the least developed nations on the planet. it's a place of staggering beauty. there's vast mountains, lush forests, and a long idyllic lake. ♪ drive through the countryside, however, and you quickly see poverty is widespread. the country of 17 million people, life is full of hardships. zamba is malawi's only maximum security prison, and the music you're hearing comes from behind pthese walls. the prison was built to hold around 400 inmates. today there are 2,400 here. ♪ what's so startling when you walk into the prison yard on a sunday morning -- ♪ -- is that everywhere you turn there's music. a cacophony of choirs. ♪ many here are hardened criminals. robbers, rapists, murderers. others are casualties of a legal system that can be chaot

zamba is malawi's only maximum you're hearing comes from behind these walls. the prison was built to hold around 400 inmates. today there are 2,400 here. ? what's so startling when you walk into the prison yard on a sunday morning -- ? -- is that everywhere you turn there's music. a cacophony of choirs. ? many here are hardened criminals. system that can be chaotic and arbitrary. where court files are routinely lost and most suspects have no legal representation. in a small room off the yard there's a prison band. practicing every day on donated instruments. ? those men in green are guards. they play side by side with inmates. ian brennan, an american producer who travels the world recording new music in unlikely places, heard about zamba and three years ago flew to malawi to check it out. you're taking a gamble. because you go to places, you don't necessarily know what's there. >> no, no, no. we have no idea. it's a leap of faith every single time. only leap of faith. officer thomas banamo took one too. he helped found the prison band eight years ago. he wasn

joyce is in her second year of high school in a town in southern malawi. it's a boarding school and charges for room and board. by malawi standards it can cost close to $200 a year. that is her biggest obstacle. she wasn't going to school anymore because her father was unable to continue paying her school fees. >> when i come here the head teacher sent us home to collect school fees. >> to collect school fees. >> yeah, because i didn't finish paying school fees, my dad can't manage to pay school fees for me. >> what does your father do? >> my father do work labor and he ends a little bit of money. >> that is exactly why the kind fund provides scholarships for girls in malawi. they need extra help to stay in school for many reasons. the girls' graduation rate is half that of boys. the kind fund was created as a unique partnership between msnbc and unicef to provide desks. kids in need of desks. kind. that was the original concept and remains the primary mission of kind. on another night i'll show you what happened last week in malawi where we delivered desk

katty: a spare thought for the people in malawi. in the united states the education system for children is changing and more are being homeschooled. what was once a small movement is becoming mainstream, and is legal in all 50 states. when a photographer moved to woodstock in new york, she met a family educating their five-year-old daughter at home. she decided to chronicle the experience from the child's perspective. here is a look. >> the special thing about woodstock is that it is completely buried in nature. there are creeks pretty much in every corner. there is more trees than cars, almost. you feel it. outside the center of town, there is very secluded houses. when i was with these children, i sometimes felt like i was in a fairytale. it was a magical world i was being invited into and lost in. my name is rachel, in my book "homeschooled" is about children homeschooled by their parents. in other words, they have never been to school. the first family in the book, they live on a farm. it was about a two-hour drive from woodstoc

fund so that sending back donald trump's check would not mean fewer desks delivered to schools in malawi. so with that check i became a bigger donor than donald trump and so are you, if you gave anything to charity before donald trump started running for president. if you gave anything at all in the last few years, that is more than donald trump has given in those years, because thanks to david fahrenthold's extraordinary reporting in the washington post, we know there is no record of donald trump giving charitable contribution at all, for several years. there's no proof at all that donald trump is a billionaire, but he is certainly rich enough to give monte charity, more than i can afford. one of the many scrooge-like stories that david fahrenthold tells, is that when donald trump was a principal for a day at a public school in the bronx, the chess team at that school was desperately trying to raise money to travel to a tournament. they needed $5,000. luckily for them, there was a guy in the building that day, principal for the day, who was claiming to be a billionaire. quote, he handed

of malawi compared to ourselves. it's clear that changes do need to happen over a lengthy time period. we are on a period of massive expansion. e need expand from about about six million people on treatment. but we will do what we need to do. best in k we'll do our a difficult climate with the valued help of our partners. >> so doubling the number of ople on there, maybe we're being too polite but this is an extraordinary fiscal ask from partner governments and so we'll look forward to following that. it's a very major challenge to think about what has to be -- you'll have some growth in your health budget, maybe not and you'll have to real accumulate om other -- reallocate other uses. billion t to raise $25 additional revenue. we have to make $25 billion of tax to achieve repriorization. a lot of that repriorization is in the higher education sector. we have a very active fees in outh africa at the moment. we want young people who want to be able to enter into tertiary education. so a combination of different strate

of malawi compared to ourselves. it's clear that changes do need to happen over a lengthy time period. we are on a period of massive expansion. we need expand from about about six million people on treatment. but we will do what we need to do. so i think we'll do our best in a difficult climate with the valued help of our partners. >> so doubling the number of people on air, maybe we're being too polite but this is an extraordinary fiscal ask from partner governments and so we'll look forward to following hat. it's a very major challenge to think about what has to be -- you'll have some growth in your health budget, maybe not and you'll have to real accumulate -- reallocate some other uses. >> a combination of things. in the budget we had to raise $25 billion additional revenue. we have to make $25 billion of tax to achieve epriorization. a lot of that repriorization is in the higher education ector. we have a very active fees in outh africa at the moment. we want young people who want to be able to enter into tertia

. >> stephen: who are actually-- have been part of this program from malawi, jordan, pakistan. ( applause ) ( cheers ) >> they-- they spoke so eloquently. they told their stories at an event that you helped to host yesterday here. >> stephen: absolutely beautiful >> on broadway. to help raise awareness. we held it for the spouses of the world leaders for the u.n. general assembly. it was a mixture of stories and, you know, inspiration from these girls, and empowering music from some of the top broadway stars. and we had this handsome young man here helping us keep it all together. and i'm so grateful for your support, not just yesterday, but on everything you do on issues that you don't just speak out on. you don't but you know about these issues, and you care about them. and that's why i like you. >> stephen: thank you very much. it was an honor to be invited. thank you very much. there's a documentary, there's a documentary that cnn is going to have on called: "we will rise" a cnn film that followed you on a trip to liberia. >> marrakesh and madrid. >> stephen: and we have a clip right

that's in zambia, zimbabwe and malawi. you'll find those results exciting. we have known from another number of years from usaid's data, we've had a number of pediatric infections. we know pediatric new infections are down by 70% over the last decade. we also realize we did not have the same impact on adult new infections. we been exploring about what is at issue. when we talk about the administer of finance with malawi about a year and half ago, in their mind what they believe the hiv aids epidemic was, was their family members and their employees dying from hiv, aids. once people were not dying anymore there is no visibility to the epidemic. also we we were not clear about our numbers. in 20,002,000 you had 80000 new infections in kenya. 80,000 new infections last year, but the makeup of those 80000 has dramatically shifted from being 50/50 pediatric adult, to 90% adult. the programming you need to expand, invest in and ensure becomes really critical. we also spent time working with government to look where the resources were. there's there's an issue betw

of malawi compared to ourselves. it's clear that changes do need to happen over a lengthy time period. we are on a period of massive expansion. we need expand from about about six million people on treatment. but we will do what we need to do. so i think we'll do our best in a difficult climate with the valued help of our partners. >> so doubling the number of people on there, maybe we're all in being too polite but this is an extraordinary fiscal ask from partner governments and so we'll look forward to following that. it's a very major challenge to think about what has to be -- you'll have some growth in your health budget, maybe not and you'll have to real accumulate from other -- reallocate other uses. >> we want to raise $25 billion additional revenue. we have to make $25 billion of tax to achieve repriorization. a lot of that repriorization is in the higher education sector. we have a very active fees in south africa at the moment. and we want young people who want to be able to enter into tertiary education. s

steve's experience building a school in malawi changed his life. >> they just wish they had school. a lot of them don't even know how to spell their names. i'm given these opportunities and i'm throwing them away. so honestly, it just like registered eventually, like what am i doing? like i got to take advantage of what i have. >> the main reason the service has such an enormous positive because they're able to see what they can do. and from there, they elevate expectation for their communities, for their schools and for themselves. >> it brings out a piece of you that you never would like to bring out when you were alone. when you are in build on, you are not alone. >> being involved in build on also has a huge impact on whether these kids make it to college. in neighborhoods where there is is a build on program, the average graduation rate is around 65%. in some cases, as but for students involved with build on, it's 97%. so looking ahead to the next 25 years, they are pledging to invest more in these communities and increase graduation rates by 50%. >> you want it in every school