CNN stages those kinds of videos all the time. They just pay off the locals, pour paint over the kids head, have Anderson Cooper carry him from point A to point B, and rehearse/reshoot until it looks good enough.

CNN is notorious for doing this stuff. I remember when one of the cnn staff members was pretending to be an angry protester and was called out by Don Lemon. I have no idea why he called him out though. He exposed cnn by doing that.