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Helping the children of incarcerated parents get to college

As a teenager Yasmine Arrington set up a scholarship fund for the children of incarcerated parents and opened up about her own experience.

When Yasmine Arrington was growing up in the US, her dad was in and out of prison. It was something she never spoke about. But as a teenager she decided to set up a scholarship fund for other children of incarcerated parents and spoke out about her own experience at last.

Juan Villalba-MacΓ­as has spent decades trying to protect wildlife. He's gone undercover to scupper million-dollar, animal-trafficking deals. He's also rescued two stolen parrots, the last of their kind born in the wild, in the midst of a dictatorship. Juan now lives on the nature reserve he created to try and bring native species back from the brink of extinction. This interview was first broadcast in 2023.

Film clip from Rio (Carlos Saldanha/ Blue Sky Studios & 20th Century Fox Animation)

Presenter: Seyi Rhodes

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(Photo: Yasmine Arrington. Credit Roy Cox photography)

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