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Songs of Migration
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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Across the world, people have been migrating from one area to another for as long as they’ve had legs to walk on. Some go in search of freedom, so...

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  • Added: Apr 15, 2011
  • Length: 06:58
  • Purchases: 1
Microloan Meltdown
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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Micro-lending has been hailed as the silver bullet to help end poverty. But the practice of lending small amounts of money to the world’s poor hasn...

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Apr 15, 2011
  • Length: 05:56
  • Purchases: 3
Street Dinner
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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The expression “living on less than a dollar-a-day” has become a common catchphrase in the developing world. On a reporting trip to Ethiopia, Erne...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2011
  • Length: 03:43
Hannah Slocum
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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By every measure, the West African country of Liberia is one of the world’s worst places to be a woman. In the aftermath of a brutal civil war, wo...

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 08, 2011
  • Length: 07:32
  • Purchases: 2
Even the Rain: Film Review
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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A little over a decade ago, the Bolivian government joined forces with multinational organizations to privatize the water supply in the city of Coc...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2011
  • Length: 03:45
Anti-Corruption Effort
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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After several weeks of intense protest for a faster transition to democracy, the interim government of Tunisia has set an election date for a const...

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  • Added: Apr 08, 2011
  • Length: 04:44
  • Purchases: 1
A Different Africa
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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Wairimu Gitahi is an African woman and a journalist. She believed she understood her continent until she moved to South Africa last year. There, sh...

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon, PRX Remix, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 08, 2011
  • Length: 03:44
  • Purchases: 3
The Missing
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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The ruling military council of Egypt announced this week it would lift emergency law before the parliamentary elections scheduled for September. T...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Apr 08, 2011
  • Length: 06:42
  • Purchases: 1
The Johnson Family
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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As you just heard, Dadaab has become the near permanent residence for hundreds of thousands of refugees. Many of them will never see their homes in...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Apr 01, 2011
  • Length: 05:06
  • Purchases: 1
Railroad Workers
From: World Vision Report
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Mexico's Copper Canyon Railway carves its way through the northern state of Chihuahua. It's a marvel of engineering and a huge tourist attraction. ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 01, 2011
  • Length: 04:14
  • Purchases: 1
Big Power
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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Bolivia is often called the poorest nation in South America. And in Bolivia’s indigenous culture, if you do happen to have money, it’s generally c...

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  • Added: Apr 01, 2011
  • Length: 04:34
  • Purchases: 1
Surgeon Shortage
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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Uganda desperately needs surgeons. In a country of 32 million people, there are only about a hundred specialist surgeons. As a result, accident vi...

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  • Added: Apr 01, 2011
  • Length: 06:19
  • Purchases: 2
Waiting in Dadaab
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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The unrest in the Middle East is causing a huge refugee crisis. How this will play out in the long term is anyone’s guess. But history tells us re...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 01, 2011
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 1
Acts of Kindness
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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During the last four decades, foreign journalists were more or less banned from reporting from Libya. And inside the country, Moammar Gaddafi’s g...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2011
  • Length: 03:13
Benghazi Newspaper Editor
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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After the Libyan revolutionary movement began in Benghazi, journalists from the city, who had not been able to report freely before, suddenly were ...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2011
  • Length: 02:10
Leiderman Ortiz
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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In Colombia, security has improved since the government began demobilizing paramilitary groups seven years ago. But the country is still one of the...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WBEZ, and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Mar 25, 2011
  • Length: 05:41
  • Purchases: 3
Exiled Somali Journalists
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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Somalia is one of the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists. Eleven reporters have been killed in the last two years alone and man...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2011
  • Length: 05:37
Bloggers in Tunis
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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This year the organization “Reporters Without Borders” gave its special Netizen award to a group of Tunisian bloggers. The award – sponsored by Go...

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  • Added: Mar 25, 2011
  • Length: 05:53
  • Purchases: 1
Cross Border Help in Libya
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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The international community is scrambling to ship humanitarian aid to refugees who fled the fighting in Libya – and those who remain in Libya. The...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 11, 2011
  • Length: 05:16
  • Purchases: 2
Hainan Gender Gap
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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Some of the discontent in China is a result of their one child policy. Adopted 30 years ago, it was an attempt to curb china’s exploding populatio...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 11, 2011
  • Length: 06:05
  • Purchases: 1
Sidi Bouzid
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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The small Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzid is where the pro-democracy rebellion in the Mid East and North Africa began. It was here on December 17th, ...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2011
  • Length: 05:58
Poverty and Recruitment in Libya
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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In Libya, Muammar Gaddafi has vowed “to fight to the end, to the last man, last woman” to stay in power. The rebels are relying on defectors from C...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2011
  • Length: 05:52
Arabian Knightz
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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For years under the Mubarak regime in Egypt, musicians and writers were forced to censor themselves. Or be harassed by the secret police. Now, fo...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and WBEZ


  • Added: Mar 04, 2011
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 3
Organ Grinder
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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Mexico City is a noisy place most of the time, partly because of the musicians standing on busy intersections playing music on street organs. You k...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2011
  • Length: 05:54
Culion Island
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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Culion Island is a remote chunk of land in the Philippines that once housed the world’s largest leper colony. At its peak, 16,000 patients lived t...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 04, 2011
  • Length: 04:47
  • Purchases: 1