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FRONTLINE / WORLD; South Africa: Troubled Water; Haiti: The Aid Dilemma; West Papua: The Clever One

06/24/2010

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Series

FRONTLINE / WORLD

Program

South Africa: Troubled Water; Haiti: The Aid Dilemma; West Papua: The Clever One

Program Number

902

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South Africa: Troubled Water FRONTLINE/World investigates one of its own stories, “The Play Pump,” which promised to use a merry-go-round and the power of children to help meet the dire need for fresh water in southern Africa. After FRONTLINE/World first aired the story in 2005, major donors in the United States—and the U.S. government itself—launched a multimillion-dollar campaign to install the device in thousands of African schools and villages. Now, correspondent Amy Costello investigates what happened to those communities, as the promise of the PlayPump fell short and the device’s biggest American boosters began to back away from a technology they had once championed.

Haiti: The Aid Dilemma In the aftermath of January's devastating earthquake in Haiti, post-disaster relief is creating a new kind of problem for businesses there. The massive influx of food aid has altered the price of rice, throwing the delicate balance in Haiti's food supply chain out of whack and threatening to collapse the country's rice market. It's the kind of problem that can turn a one-time disaster into a crisis that lasts years.

But international aid organizations like the U.N.'s World Food Programme are trying out a new method of delivering relief that they hope will avoid that problem.

"It's a simple idea," says reporter Adam Davidson of NPR's Planet Money. "If people are hungry, don't give them rice. Give them money to buy rice, or vouchers that amount to the same thing. That way, instead of destroying [local] business, you strengthen it."

But as Davidson and producer Travis Fox discover in their story The Aid Dilemma -- part of a unique and ongoing partnership between NPR and FRONTLINE -- a simple idea can quickly turn complicated.

West Papua: The Clever One Artist Mary Jo McConnell has been traveling to one of the most remote corners of the world -- the arboreal cloud forests of the Arfak mountain range -- for more than 15 years to study the Vogelkop Bowerbird.

Duration

00:56:46

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Broadcast program

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Video

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