January 2009

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John Lennon Imagines a World Changed by One Laptop per Child

John Lennon comes to life in a TV commercial for One Laptop per Child [OLPC], a nonprofit organization whose mission is to help provide every child in the world access to a modern education. The video broke nationwide on Christmas Day. Read more Courtesy One Laptop Per Child




"Gimme Shelter" film helps raise awareness for the work of UNHCR in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

The short film, set to the Rolling Stones song of the same name, was produced for UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, by actor-director Ben Affleck and the Rolling Stone's Mick Jagger. It details the unseen suffering of families in the Democratic Republic of the Congo who are fleeing fighting in the province known as North Kivu. One woman tells her story.

Read more Courtesy United Nations