Young Filmmakers Use Web to Teach About Global Issues

Believing that stories are the most powerful teachers, the nonprofit group Curriki, in Washington, has enlisted 15 filmmakers in developing countries to produce short narrative videos designed to help students learn about strife and poverty across the globe.

Each of the two- to five-minute pieces — which blend photos, music, voice-overs, and printed text — focuses on one of four "millennium development goals" set forth by the United Nations: eradicating poverty,

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