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We explore ruins of Palestinian villages, and we discuss how they became ruins.
That's what you discover as you go into these villages in the Middle East where you expect hostility, and you get the most amazing hospitality, all associated with Abraham: "In the name of Father Ibrahim, let me offer you some food."
Instead of building prisons, we could build villages on wheels.
We've looked at three things: peacemaking centers, centers for restorative justice and restorative economics and pop-up villages.
2005, Anthony Fitzherbert, an agricultural engineer, could travel through Helmand, could stay in Nad Ali, Sangin and Ghoresh, which are now the names of villages where fighting is taking place.
The resistance in Budrus has since spread to villages across the West Bank and to Palestinian neighborhoods in Jerusalem.
In the course of taking my film to villages in the West Bank, in Gaza and in East Jerusalem, I have seen the impact that even one documentary film can have in influencing the transformation.
Tending those 31 dying people were young women from villages around Bangalore.
And in fact, these same cells that are affecting Kimbo here are also found affecting dogs in New York City, in mountain villages in the Himalayas and in Outback Australia.
Well, villages of the world are emptying out.
Those three women have trained 27 more women and solar-electrified 100 villages in Afghanistan.
What do we know about the country and the people that we pretend to protect, about the villages where the only one medicine to kill the pain and to stop the hunger is opium?
The problem is, in my village, Oakland, in most of our villages, we don't see that connection.
Two months later, both of those villages fell into another war.
We're giving full four-year scholarships to girls from villages that we see with potential.
Twenty years later, following those villages, what we learned is that they had a better quality of life than their neighbors.
From there, they're taken to the villages, where hundreds of thousands of community volunteers will distribute those drugs to the people.
I visited villages in India where entire families were enslaved in the silk trade.
But it took time for me to realize that my acts of pride weren't most alive in the global cities I traipsed through, but in the villages where I speak the languages and play the games and feel most at home and I can say, "I have seen the world, and I know that people like me aren't alone here, we are everywhere."
Across China, there are 150 million workers like her, one third of them women, who have left their villages to work in the factories, the hotels, the restaurants and the construction sites of the big cities.
In rural Uganda, Paul Bolton and his colleagues, using villagers, demonstrated that they could deliver interpersonal psychotherapy for depression and, using a randomized control design, showed that 90 percent of the people receiving this intervention recovered as compared to roughly 40 percent in the comparison villages.
Roughly 75 percent of mothers recovered as compared to about 45 percent in the comparison villages.
In fact, if you fly over Germany, for example, and you look down and you see these hundreds of little villages, they're all about a mile apart.
Paris was a series of these little villages that came together, and you still see that structure today.
We work in groups, in big cities — (Laughter) — and in small villages.
The economist Robert Jensen did this wonderful study a while back where he watched, in great detail, what happened to the fishing villages of Kerala, India, when they got mobile phones for the very first time.
And the lives of both the buyers and the sellers in these villages measurably improved."
Now, what I don't think is that Jensen got extremely lucky and happened to land in the one set of villages where technology made things better.
And I experienced this most viscerally when I traveled to remote villages to study poverty.
In about four months of release, we've brought that population of mosquitos — in most cases we're dealing with villages here of about 2,000, 3,000 people, that sort of size, starting small — we've taken that mosquito population down by about 85 percent in about four months.
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