Rats Saving Lives - Part 1 & 2

Tuberculosis is the world’s most infectious disease. 9 million people contract it every year, 3 million go undiagnosed and 1.5 million die. To help combat this, medical researches are using the African Pouch Rat to sniff-out positive tuberculosis samples in Tanzania and Mozambique. The rat has an extraordinary sense of smell and it can check around 100 samples in 20 minutes. This would take a lab technician in a public clinic in these countries up to 4 days.

The African Pouch rat is also being used in Cambodia to assist with landmine clearing.

Zanzibar's Seaweed Farmers

China's Influence on Tanzania

Illegal Gold Mining in Tanzania

Low-cost, low-tech, labour-intensive work is carried out in the illegal gold mines of Tanzania. See how gold is extracted from the unregulated mines and the dangers involved to locals who risk their lives daily in order to make a living.

Rwanda's Fight Against Plastic Bags

Each year, an estimated 500 billion to 1 trillion plastic bags are consumed worldwide. That's over one million plastic bags used per minute.

In 2008 Rwanda took the plunge and banned the common plastic bag while other powerful governments in the world were just starting to impose a tax on plastic bags. Follow Rwanda’s journey in efforts to keep the country plastic bag-free.