Today, Humanwire correspondent Kazim Raza visits with a family of bonded laborers in Pakistan. To help or just to learn more follow this link: http://bit.ly/luFjgO Click here for Show Credits. Follow us on Twitter: @rocketboom Like us on Facebook: facebook.com/rocketboom
Today on Rocketboom, our Humanwire correspondent, Matt Brown, talks to Danny MacAskill about his stunt bicycle career and his films. For more from Matt Brown: http://mattbrownfilms.blogspot.com/ Music by Blind Summit Click here for show credits. Follow us on Twitter: @rocketboom Like us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/rocketboom
Ruud Elmendorp reports on landmine-sniffing rats from Tanzania. For more information on HeroRATs, visit their website at: http://herorat.org Ruud Elmendorp: http://videojournalist.nl Follow us on Twitter: @rocketboom Like us on Facebook: Facebook.com/rocketboom
Humanwire correspondent Matt Brown interviews employees and people training at Ice Factor, an indoor ice climbing facility in the Highlands of Scotland. Click here for show credits. Subscribe to our YouTube Channel for more Rocketboom! Follow us on Twitter for the latest updates! Join us on Facebook for behind the scenes pics and videos!
Today on Rocketboom we look at the advantages of early education in daycares in South Africa. Humanwire correspondent, Ruud Elmendorp reports from Durban. Click here for show credits. Subscribe to our YouTube Channel for more Rocketboom! Follow us on Twitter for the latest updates! Join us on Facebook for behind the scenes pics and videos!
Cook your delicious foods using sun light, and you don’t pay electricity, parafine, or firewood, and making it all a lot cheaper. That’s the promise of the solar cookers implemented by a South African company called Sunfire. They have been doing that for the last five years, and Sunfire is starting an NGO to distribute(…)
Humanwire correspondent Calin Dinulescu reporting from Bucharest, Romania brings us an interview with Justin Capra, the Romanian inventor of the jetpack. Click here for show credits. Subscribe to our YouTube Channel for more Rocketboom Daily with Molly! Follow us on Twitter for the latest updates! Join us on Facebook for behind the scenes pics and(…)
Humanwire correspondent Ruud Elmendorp brings us a report on how Life Straws are changing millions of lives in Kenya. Subscribe to our YouTube Channel for more Rocketboom Daily with Molly! Follow us on Twitter for the latest updates! Join us on Facebook for behind the scenes pics and videos!
By African Renaissance Productions. Only 2,900 breeding pairs of Cape Vultures remain world wide. Kerri Wolter founded the Vulture Conservation Program in Magaliesberg, South Africa. Click here for show credits. Support Vulture Conservation, African Renaissance Productions Follow us on Twitter for the latest updates! Join us on Facebook for behind the scenes pics and videos!
Humanwire Correspondant Lee Zucker reports. The Food Bank of Central and Northeast Missouri sponsors a program called the “Buddy Pack Program.” Through this program, backpacks are donated to the food bank along with the food most appealing for elementary and middle school students. The program feeds about 3,800 children in poverty each week, and also(…)
What happens to a congested town when traffic lights are removed? Humanwire Correspondent Martin Cassini reports on this experiment performed in Somerset County, England. Click here for show credits. Fit Roads, Martin Cassini Follow us on Twitter for the latest updates! Join us on Facebook for behind the scenes pics and videos!
A young girl takes care of an island of the coast of South Africa that is closed off for penguin conservation. Click here for show credits. African Renaissance Productions Follow us on Twitter for the latest updates! Join us on Facebook for behind the scenes pics and videos!
In the Kenyan slum of Kibera, local craftsmen work to reuse discarded butcher bones and carve them into jewelry. Click here for show credits. Mobile Movement Funding for Victorious Youth Group, Ruud Elmendorp Follow us on Twitter for the latest updates! Join us on Facebook for behind the scenes pics and videos!
Humanwire Correspondant Luana Di Pasquale reports on the efforts made by the Gorilla Organization to save the gorilla population through a fun and creative annual event. Click here for show credits. Artistic Films, The Gorilla Organization, The Gorilla Organization UK Follow us on Twitter for the latest updates! Join us on Facebook for behind the scenes(…)
24 year old Evans Wadongo invented a hand built solar lantern in Western Kenya, giving clean and affordable light to villagers in the region. And Click here for show credits. Humanwire Correspondent: Ruud Elmendorp http://videojournalist.nl/index.html Follow us on Twitter for the latest updates! Join us on Facebook for behind the scenes pics and videos!
Nollywood, or Nigerian Cinema, has become the second largest flim industry in the world. Famous for putting out thousands of new films each year, they have recently started to focus on improving the quality of their storytelling and production. Humanwire correspondent Dianna Dilworth reports from New York City.
Kenyan DJ Mike Rabar turned his group of DJ’s, Homeboyz into an international entertainment group. From animation and television studios to schools for DJ’s and radio personalities, Homeboyz addresses the growing demand for production and event engineering in the Kenyan capital. From Nairobi, Humanwire Correspondent Ruud Elmendorp reports. For credits and story links, click here.
Rocketboom’s Humanwire correspondent Tim Brown reports on Bee Beard from Portland, Oregon.
