chicago from the north side, to the south side, to the west side. from oakland to johannesburg, from ho chi minh city to rio de janeiro, there a young people who are not waiting for someo else to solve big problems. instead, in the face of sometimes impossible odds, they re rolling up their sleeves and putting down stas and making a difference one neighborhood, school, community at a time. they re building health clinics in urban slums and educating gis in rural villas. they re reforming policing and challenging corruption. they re inventing new ways to cut carbon emissions and providing clean water to those who need it. they re building businses on
the south side to the west side. from oakland to johannesburg, from ho chi minh city to rio de janeiro, from amsterdam to port-au-prince. around the world and right here in chicago, there are young people who are not waiting for someone else to solve big problems. instead in the face of sometimes impossible odds, they are rolling up their sleeves and putting down stakes and making a difference, one neighborhood, one school, one community at a time. they re building health clinics in urban slums, and educating girls in rural villages. they re reforming policing and challenging corruption. they re inventing new ways to cut carbon emissions and providing clean water to those who desperately need it. they re building businesses on principles of equity and
and in these battlefield provinces, where the war has been raging, incredible death tolls becoming face to face with a lot of the corruption we are talking about. my own reporting really reveals how embedded within everything the united states and the afghan government was doing in many of these areas. even if it was something as seemingly noble as education, or building health clinics, could be permeated by some of the same problems, allied with really dangerous war lords. who isolated the local population from the afghan government. so it really depends on who you are talking to. and that rural urban divide is really not focused on. there are so many reporters who come to afghanistan, stay in kabul, and that s where a majority of their sources are. , james laporta. . , france.