Program Details - A Dollar a Day 2008-01-08 09:30:00

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Mike Wooldridge presents a series asking what living on a dollar a day really means. 1/5: In Kaimosi in Western Kenya, Isaiah lives with his disabled wife and six grandchildren.Mike Wooldridge presents a series asking whether the global target of halving world poverty by 2015 can be achieved and what living on a dollar a day really means.

1/5. In Kaimosi in Western Kenya, Isaiah lives with his disabled wife and six grandchildren, making seven to ten dollars a month from growing tea. Their neighbours Francis and Christine are both able to work, growing and selling maize, mending bicycles and making bricks. Between them they make about two dollars a day.

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• Programme concerning a single theme, involving descriptive and/or interpretative commentaries, illustrations, I/vs, statements, photos etc