After winning India's biggest quiz show, Ram Mohammad Thomas is put in jail as authorities question how a poor orphan who has never gone to school could win such a contest.
Chronicles Eleanor Roosevelt's efforts to help improve the standard of living for the people of a stretch of coal mining land in West Virginia who lived in dire poverty by creating a new self-sufficient community called Arthurdale.
A photo essay depicts the non-profit organization of volunteers that renovate or build houses for needy families as, with former President and Mrs. Jimmy Carter's participation as volunteers, they build twenty houses in Atlanta in just five days.
Sixteen-year-old Gloria, who lives in poverty in Accra, dreams of becoming a dressmaker but has difficulty with school, and when a distant relative offers to pay for dressmaking school in exchange for Gloria looking after her son in Kumasi, Gloria accepts the offer and finds that life in Kumasi is full of temptations and distractions which she must struggle to overcome.
Beatrice, a thirteen-year-old orphan who lives with her older brother in Kibera, a slum in Nairobi, Kenya, describes her life at home and at school, including the daily walk, the overcrowded classrooms, housework, and her hope of becoming a nurse.
In 1948 Alabama, twelve-year-old cotton pickers Ted Dillon, a white boy, and Poudlum, an African-American, hatch a plan to aid an escaped African-American convict and save Poudlum's family from those who would steal their livelihood.
African-American teenager Raspberry Hill, off the streets after years of homelessness with her mother, inexplicably steals money from one of her best friends and wonders if she is no different than her recently returned, drug-addicted, thieving father.
