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Boston Calling: Best Intentions

Eduardo Tamaniz Diego, aged six, with his “Soccket”, Puebla, Mexico, Credit: Jennifer Collins

12/04/2014

Best Intentions

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The story of a ball designed to revolutionise the way the world’s poor light their homes

The story of a ball that was supposed to have revolutionised the way people in developing countries light their homes. Also in the show, how the Rwanda genocide led a 27-year-old American to devote his life to preventing future atrocities. An American man who brought presents to the family of the Palestinian who tried to murder his wife. An immigrant from Malaysia remembers going hungry her first night in the US because of a misunderstanding between her and her host family. And, a programme that hopes to solve the shortage of young farmers in America by focusing on urban immigrant teens.

Picture: Eduardo Tamaniz Diego, 6, was excited to receive a “Soccket” last year in his home state of Puebla, Mexico. But he says the ball, which generates power to run an electric light, stopped working, Credit: Jennifer Collins

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