International Aid And Development

When New Zealand nurse Donna Collins first put on her full protective gear on to work with ebola patients in Sierra Leone she feared she would look like a martian and frighten people already terrified… Audio

The Catholic aid agency Caritas New Zealand is calling for urgent international funding to help Pacific islands struggling with the effects of climate change. Audio

A documentary about life aboard the largest civilian hospital ship in the world, is about to hit our shores. It's called 'The Surgery Ship' and it documents the life-changing experiences of patients… Audio

Australia's consideration of its involvement in fighting Islamic State militants in Iraq, has raised questions about what New Zealand would do, should this country be approached by a US led coalition… Audio

Islam Awareness Week 2014 focuses on charity - raising awareness of the lives of people across the globe in need, mindful of the current humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Lynda attends open day at the… Audio

Why did New Zealand troops serve in Afghanistan? How much do we know about this war? An award winning documentary is now being taught as part of the NCEA curriculum within secondary schools across our… Audio

Jane Toll of the Global Crop Diversity Trust, works for one of the organisations that oversees The Svalbard Global Seed Vault. It stores 825,000 samples from more than 200 crops in the permafrost on a… Audio

Eighty-year-old writer, Jean Watson is an anonymous elderly woman living in a modest Wellington flat. But in southern India she is revered as the famous 'Jean Aunty'. Thirty years ago she sold her… Audio

Francesca Borri is one of the few foreign correspondents still operating within Syria's borders from where she joins us via telephone. Audio

UNICEF's Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Specialist in Honiara, Donald Burgess, gives a status update. Audio

There are many stereotypes about Africa: that it's a place of conflict, of disease, war and famine. Or that it's a single place rather than a continent of 54 distinct countries. We'll engage with… Audio

Duncan Green, the author of From Poverty to Power, speaks to Chris Laidlaw about his belief that active citizenship is the key to reversing the world's growing inequalities; UnionAID's Helen Wilson… Audio

Eric Frykberg reports after travelling to Timor Leste on the departure of the NZ peacekeepers and the nation's future Audio

Sonia Sly talks to Julianne Hickey, the newly appointed director of Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand, a member of Caritas Internationalis, a confederation of 168 Catholic aid, development and social… Audio

RNZ International's Johnny Blades travels to PNG to find out who is benefitting from that nation's resource development boom Audio

Chris speaks with this New Zealand psychiatrist who's recently returned from a voluntary stint at a hospital in Bethlehem. We glean an insight into the wrongs and rights of the fractured state of… Audio