Labor Trafficking for Domestic Work
More than three million migrant workers every year, most of them women, leave their countries to work as domestic laborers, often in conditions some say border on slavery. […]
Author: Simeon Lancaster
Posts by Simeon Lancaster
Cervical Cancer Screening
A story on one effort to prevent a disease that afflicts about 500,000 women across the world every year, but has the most deadly outcomes in India. […]
Refugee Tensions in Historically Open Uganda
With hundreds, sometimes thousands of refugees pouring across the border each day, Uganda’s openness is being put to a test. […]
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Breaking the Taboo
Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro has the story of one man who has made it his mission to bring affordable hygiene products to women in India. […]
Creating Ethical Entrepreneurs
Ashesi University has embarked on an experiment which its founder hopes will fundamentally change the entire continent. […]
Dealing with Delhi’s trash mountain
Efforts have been made to turn Delhi’s trash into energy-producing fuel, but cultural hurdles remain. […]
A ‘Brilliant’ Life
Larry Brilliant jokes that he doesn’t live up to his last name, but he has lived a remarkable life, from his early days in the San Francisco hippie scene, to his work as one of the world’s leading disease fighters who helped eradicate smallpox. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro sits down with Brilliant to look back at his career and current work identifying today’s global threats. […]
Fighting to Breathe
Delhi now outranks Beijing as the world’s most polluted city. PBS Special Correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports […]
In the Footsteps of Mother Teresa
Correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro travels to India with a group of Catholic seminarians from Minnesota […]
Are Private Schools a Solution for Liberia?
The Little Lama
Guiding Liberian girls toward school
Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro meets an American woman who has made her home in Liberia, started her own school and now provides education and scholarships for girls. […]