this is where the sahelian zone begins, a belt between the sahara desert and the savanna to the south there is some farming, but very little rain. in the village of savelugu, a theatre group is about to perform. many people from this region would love to go to europe. the theatre group has taken up the issue. aminu munkaila was once a refugee himself. he tells of his experiences in the desert and trying to cross the mediterranean. "believe me, few make it across the desert," he says. then the story begins. one family has a son who's earning well abroad. his father can buy a tractor. then another man comes on, the father of another family. he's envious and wants a tractor, too. so he sends his daughter and two sons to europe. preparations for the journey begin. they pay a so-called "connecting man" who promises safe passage to libya. the journey begins. one of their friends dies of thirst on the way and they bury him in the sahara. aminu munkaila founded the african development organization for migration, or afdom for short. the group tours the villages and produces radio clips. they a

help others less fortunate than she is, so she set her sights on african countries south of the sahara desert>> it's all dirt, and there's no pathway for people to walk on the road. and they don't really have air-conditioning at all. they don't have lights. they don't have floor. they don't have toilets. they have really extreme poverty conditions. >> bad as conditions are in countries like uganda, girls have it even worse. >> the reason i focus on sub-saharan africa is because girls never get the chance. they're often married off at a very young age or they just are used to work at home and work in the fields while the boys go to school. >> and that's why "reverse the course" was born. >> so why don't you come help me make a bow? "reverse the course" is a business and foundation that i started at the age of 12. i really wanted to help one girl go to school, and so i thought by selling products i could raise money to pay her tuition. >> but before she could sell any products, she needed to make them, and that included learning some new skills. >> um, so it took about a month, maybe two months

they come across the sahara desert where there's a whole other system of human trafficking in place, the coast of libya. once they get to libya, oftentimes they have to work to earn the money to collect, to pay for the journey into the mediterranean. for women, oftentimes that involves prostitution. many of them are raped and sexually exploited. for the men, it's basically almost slave labor. many of them are sleeping in warehouses with barely any sanitary facilities. they get by on almost no food as they wait for the possibility basically to earn the money to pay these human traffickers. the human traffickers don't really give them a choice. once they say, okay, your boat is ready, they go to the ports in various parts of libya. and oftentimes when they see the vessels they are expected to make this journey on, many of them say, no, i don't want to go on it. and they're, you know, at gunpoint forced to get on these boats. now, the boats, they never are intended to actually reach the shores of italy or southern europe. really they're just seaworthy enough at best to get out into inte

you will never -- you will never , if you live in the sahara desert, you will never pay for the solarels. back in theuz is news. "the hill" reporting the he will be back on the senate floor today, saying he will miss a procedural vote monday evening, or he missed it. he took his last rollcall in february on a measure of imposing new sanctions against north korea. host: if you go to marco rubio's facebook page, it talks about a job he does not want. he says while republican voters have chosen will trump as the presumptive gop nominee, my previously stated reservations about his campaign and concerns with many of his policies remain unchanged. he will be best served by a running mate and by syria to fully embrace his campaign. john from mclean, virginia. caller: good morning. if you look at the filings that the mining companies that are that bankrupt have made explain why they are going bankrupt, you can see what is going on. one is competition. they have others in the industry that are selling energy more than they do. second is pensions. they have to pay huge amounts of their employee