On Thursday, Jan. 22 at 6 p.m. in the Community Meeting Room, Mancos Public Library in partnership with Community Cinema, Independent Television Service (ITVS), and Independent Lens offers an advance screening of A Path Appears, Episode 2: "Breaking the Cycle of Poverty".

Travel from West Virginia to Haiti and Colombia for stories of children and women breaking out of cycles of poverty and abuse.

In this episode:

Jennifer Garner returns to her native West Virginia to visit families enrolled in Save the Children's Early Steps program.

Alfre Woodard joins Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn to visit Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere despite billions of dollars in well-intentioned aid, but where one school provides a beacon of hope in helping impoverished children reach their potential

And in Cartagena, Colombia, Kristof, WuDunn, and Eva Longoria meet a woman devoting her life to the pregnant teens and young mothers in the city's notorious slums.

We will view one episode in this three-part series adapted from the book by Kristof and WuDunn, A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity.

"These are stories of a new generation of leaders that offer new inspiration to bring about change," says WuDunn. "We want people to understand that there are solutions. There are successes." A community discussion will follow the screening.

The screening will be followed by a community discussion at the library, 211 W. First St., Mancos.

Information: www.pbs.org/independentlens/path-appears.