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Why Poverty?  Give Us the Money

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Program: Why Poverty?

Episode: Give Us the Money

Can celebrity be a force for positive change? Go behind the scenes of the global campaigns associated with rock stars, including Bono’s Drop the Debt and Bob Geldof’s Make Poverty History, and investigate the unprecedented successes, challenges, and legacies of these campaigns.

• Visit the Give Us the Money webpage

Duration: (54:08)
Premiere Date: 11/26/2012
Episode Expires: Never
TV Rating: TV-PG
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