Thirst for change.

It's not always the case that the UK's domestic party conferences pique international interest, but this week was different: Gordon Brown'domestic difficulties, painkiller-gate, an impending general election, the Tories soaring in the polls - all of these have combined to mean there's been a strong interest overseas in the Labour Party conference in Brighton.

Olly Barrett spoke to Radio New Zealand's Morning Report (listen here).

Thirty-four-year-old Salva Dut lives in New York. He was one of Sudan's "Lost Boys", one of the many thousands of children orphaned during the country's 20 year civil war. For more than a decade, Dut wandered homeless with no news of his family. He wound up in Ethiopia, then Kenya, where he lived in a United Nations refugee camp for nearly six years before coming to the United States in 1996. New York correspondent Paige Kollock filed this report for Voice of America on how Salva Dut is now helping villagers in his homeland gain access to clean drinking water.

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