MBC Group participates in a Global initiative to combat poverty

Why Poverty? to air on MBC Channels in NovemberMBC Group participates in a Global initiative to combat poverty

In a groundbreaking cross-media initiative of its kind, MBC Group and its various platforms participate in a Global initiative to combat poverty, joining forces with the world's top 70 broadcasters.

(Dubai - mbc.net) In a groundbreaking cross-media initiative of its kind, MBC Group and its various platforms participate in a Global initiative to combat poverty, joining forces with the world's top 70 broadcasters.

WHY POVERTY? aims at raising awareness about the state of poverty across the world, and highlighting various humanitarian associations, organizations, initiatives, and individual campaigns which are collectively aimed at fighting poverty around the world. Through 7 one-hour documentaries, the initiative also sheds light on the numerous means available to combat poverty, most notably promoting education as an effective weapon in doing so.

It is worth noting that WHY POVERTY is organized by Steps International, an affiliation of broadcasters that jointly commission and produce documentary series. For this 7 hour documentary series, the roster of international broadcasters include: ABC (Australia), BBC (UK), DR (Denmark), ERT (Greece), NHK (Japan), NRK (Norway), RAI (Italy) and PBS (US), among others.

The programming schedule of the documentaries which will be aired on MBC Channels in November:

Airing Date

Documentary title

Airing Time KSA

Channel

25/11/2012

Park Avenue

03:00 pm

MBC2

26/11/2012

Education Education

03:00 pm

MBC Max

27/11/2012

Give us the Money

02:30 pm

MBC Action

29/11/2012

Solar Mamas

11:00 am

MBC4

30/11/2012

Stealing Africa

07:00 pm

MBC1

30/11/2012

Poor Us

11:00 pm

Al Arabiya

07/12/2012

Land Rush

07:00 pm

MBC1

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