In this acclaimed series, we journey on some of the world’s most dangerous routes and explore the lengths people go to in order to change their destinies.
Double the size of France but with a population of less than three million people, Namibia is one of the least densely populated countries in the world. But water levels are critically low. To find water, women travel through the desert, filling their containers in the puddles formed by the all-too-rare rains. Others transport the precious liquid in outdated trucks, crossing the bush in order to deliver water to isolated villages.
But in Namibia, breaking down on the roadside poses a real danger…
43 million people in the United States now live below the poverty line, twice as many as it was fifty years ago.
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With 160 million Americans severely overweight, we explore increasingly aggressive treatments as well as the counter-trend of body positivity and 'Miss Plus' beauty pageants.
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46.7 million Americans live in poverty with around 15% of the US population living below the poverty line. But they aren’t unemployed - most of them have at least two jobs. They’re ‘the working poor’. Meet the people behind America’s economic recovery.
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