Independent Lens

A Path Appears - Episode Two

Episode 2: “Breaking the Cycle of Poverty” Episode 2 visits West Virginia, Haiti, and Colombia for stories of children and women breaking out of cycles of poverty and abuse. Jennifer Garner, Alfre Woodard, and Eva Longoria join Nichols Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn to see how accessible education and comprehensive intervention are transforming lives.

A Path Appears: Catalina of Cartagena

1m 51s

In this scene from the second episode of the Independent Lens documentary series A Path Appears, Eva Longoria and Nicholas Kristof tour a slum in Cartagena, Colombia, with Catalina Escobar, founder and director of the Juan Felipe Gomez Escobar Foundation (“Juanfe”). They meet young women who are pregnant or already have several children. “She can get any girl to talk,” Longoria tells us.

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    A Path Appears: Protests in Port-au-Prince

    S1 E2 - 1m 3s

    In this scene from the second episode of the Independent Lens documentary series A Path Appears, Nicholas Kristof and Alfre Woodard arrive in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, just as anti-government protests unfold on the streets after an election has been postponed.

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    A Path Appears: The Cycle of Poverty in West Virginia

    S1 E2 - 1m 57s

    In this scene from the second episode of the Independent Lens documentary series A Path Appears, Jennifer Garner returns to her home state of West Virginia with Nicholas Kristof to visit rural, impoverished families. They travel with Tonya Bonecutter, a caseworker for Save the Children’s Early Steps, who explains that meth and prescription drugs plague all the families she works with.

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