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Thursday, March 22, 2007
 Today, as part of our Global Activism series, we talk with the founder of a new high school in a Kenyan squatter city outside Nairobi for children of AIDS-affected families. Also, hear about crises in Pakistan. This week, over 100 people died in Waziristan, and clashes over the sacking of the Chief Justice have united much of Pakistan against the Musharraf government.




 
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Pakistan in Turmoil  
Vali Nasr — Adjunct Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations; Author, The Shia Revival.  We discuss the constitutional crisis and
Global Activism: Africa's First High School for AIDS Orphans  
Over one million people live in the Kimbera slums of Nairobi in Kenya. Of those who live there, more than 30,000 are AIDS orphans. We talk to Fr. Terry Charlton, founder of St. Aloysius Gonzaga High School in the Kimbera slums, Africa’s first high school for AIDS orphans.
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