We'll be airing special programs on Monday, Sept. 1 for Labor Day:
9:00 am & 8:00 pm
The World at Work - A World Vision Report One Hour Special
Visit this program's website | The World Vision Report takes a look at the world at work, with an hour-long special that can be linked to Labor Day. Women in South Africa put peanut butter to work for them - being in labor has a double meaning for women in India, waiting tables for charity in Montreal, and in Ghana, making coffins that reflect what you did for a living. Those stories and a lot more - on the World at Work from the World Vision Report.
Noon
Humankind: Answering The Need
With the U.S. economy tightening, use of food pantries increasing and millions of Americans at risk of losing their homes, "Answering the Need," asks: What is our obligation to help people who are struggling?
Given the precarious position of so many Americans, how should people of conscience and good will personally react to this debilitating need? Whether through religious congregations, secular volunteerism or simply mailing in a financial donation, what are people's motivations for giving and what satisfactions do they derive? "Answering the Need" probes the fascinating — and very personal — question of an individual's charitable responsibility at a time of growing need. We visit a Habitat for Humanity "blitz build" where good-humored volunteers construct a house (in 12 days!) for a single mother and her autistic child. We also visit the office of a high-rolling investment banker who serves the Salvation Army. We’ll profile a soup kitchen founded in 1966 by a young idealist who has learned profound lessons about how to view and help the poor. And we’ll talk with Rev. Jim Wallis — author of the best-selling "God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It" — who feels that helping the needy is a quest on which religionists left and right can agree.
