Episode Thirty-Two | From the Ground Up
An environmentalist burns the midnight oil volunteering to preserve decades of climate change data amid a major government clampdown, and a Syrian medical student learns how his family’s chocolate-making business can equally be a cure for heartbreak. This week, stories about survival and the lengths people go to preserve a life’s work.
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Tareq Hadhad always wanted to be a doctor. In Damascus, Syria, where he grew up, school grades can determine someone’s entire career trajectory. Hadhad worked hard to earn the necessary grades. But shortly after entering medical school, the would-be physician had to help his family relocate to Antigonish, a small town in Nova Scotia, Canada. And there, his career took a very different turn: he had to help restart the family business, a chocolate company now called Peace by Chocolate.
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