Episode 2 - Pilcuyo, Peru:  Maribeth Bathum and Steve Nathe find their home among the Aymara people, welcomed by lay leaders like Pedro Copaja. The married couple from Bemidji, Minn., celebrate good harvest with the people of Peru’s highlands after years of barren fields.
26 minutes (Gr. 4-12)

Episode 3 - Msange, Tanzania:  In rural Tanzania, education for girls is considered by many families to be an unaffordable luxury. Young women are to marry, raise children, keep a home, and work in the fields. At the Murigha girls school founded by Maryknoll Sister Darlene Jacobs a quiet revolution is taking place as high school girls learn skills and attitudes that transform them into independent, self-confident women.   26 minutes (Gr. 4-12)

Episode 4 - Sherpur, Bangladesh:  Robert McCahill, a Maryknoll priest lives much like his poor neighbors in predominantly Muslim Bangladesh. He bathes and washes clothes in the communal pond, and cooks simple meals on a one-burner stove. He also goes about locating those in need of medical care and makes sure they receive. 26 minutes (Gr. 4-12)

Episode 5 - Phnom Penh, Cambodia:  A tale of friendship between Patty Curran, a Maryknoll lay missioner and Kong Chim, a vibrant 20-year-old Cambodian woman, who lost a leg to a land mine at the age of twelve. Patty sees Kong, struggling with courage and independence, despite her broken body, as a model for young Cambodians today. 26 minutes (Gr. 4-12)

Episode 6 - Lima, Peru:  Pete Byrne a Maryknoll priest and Andres Zuniga, a young Peruvian man, formerly a child of the streets himself, struggle for the dignity of streets.
26 minutes (Gr. 4-12)

Episode 7 - Baguio, Philippines:  Ann Marie Braudis, a Maryknoll Sister joins with the indigenous Cordillera people to defend land they regard as sacred against a monstrous open-pit gold mining operation. 26 minutes (Gr. 4-12)

Episode 8 - Shinyanga, Tanzania:  Ernest Brunelle, a Maryknoll priest faces a dilemma of the life and death struggle of the Sukuma people in the midst o a severe drought.

26 minutes (Gr. 4-12)

Episode 9 - Cambodia:  John Barth, a Maryknoll priest struggles to work for the rehabilitation of the blind in Cambodia. 26 minutes (Gr. 4-12)

Episode 10 - Syazche’, Guatemala:  The odyssey of Marty Shea, a Maryknoll missioner with the indigenous poor of Guatemala, has taken him through the massacre in the jungles of El Peten, to exile in Mexico, to the return today to their homeland. 26 minutes (Gr. 4-12)

Episode 11 - Nairobi, Kenya:  On a continent where over twenty million people are HIV positive, Charlotte cook, a Maryknoll lay missioner works with Benta Aoko, a Luo woman from a local Christian community, to accompany people in the slums living with AIDS. With the disappearance of traditional cultural supports in the city, they try to fill the gap so no one dies alone, finding strength in the African belief that death is part of life. 26 minutes (Gr. 4-12)

Episode 12 - Joao Pessos, Brazil:  Euphrasia Nyaki, a Tanzanian Maryknoll sister, rediscovers her own roots among Afro-Brazilian poor women. 26 minutes (Gr. 4-12)

Maryknoll - Children of the Earth Series (VHS)
(each segment is 14 minutes and a teaching guide is provided)

Africa Close-Up - English & Spanish:  Egypt and Tanzania (Gr. K-8)

Asia Close-Up-Spanish Version:  Japan and Cambodia. (Gr. 4-12)

Asia Close-Up II:  Thailand and the Philippines. (Gr. 4-12)

Caribbean Close-Up - English & Spanish:  Haiti and the Dominican Republic. ( Gr. 4-12)

Central America Close-Up:  t Guatemala and El Salvador . (Gr. 4-12)

Cuba Close - Up:  Havana and Pinar del Rio. ( Gr. 4-12)

Mexico Close-Up:  Ciudad Juarex, Chihuahua and Acteal, Chiapas ( Gr. 4-12)

Native American Close-Up:  Navajo Reservation in Arizona and Chehalts Reserve, British Columbia, Canada. (Gr. 4-12)

South America Close-Up:  Peru and Brazil. (Gr. 4-12)

South Africa Close-Up:  Cape Town. (Gr. 4-12)