World Vision Report - Weekly Half Hour
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The Global News Partnership (formerly World Vision Report) produces this news magazine that captures the human stories behind global issues, taking listeners into the lives of ordinary people in the developing world.
The Global News Partnership (formerly World Vision Report) produces this news magazine that captures the human stories behind global issues, taking listeners into the lives of ordinary people in the developing world.
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This week we head to Louisiana where fishermen are wondering whether they’ll survive the oil spill in the Gulf.
Also we go inside a classroom in Gh...
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- Added: May 14, 2010
- Length: 28:00
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If you get sick in southern Sudan your chances of dieing escalate. Health care is a rare thing in that part of the world. This week, the World Visi...
- Added: May 07, 2010
- Length: 28:00
As Arizona tightens its grip on the illegal immigration problem, four undocumented high school graduates have walked from Florida to Washington, D....
- Added: Apr 30, 2010
- Length: 28:00
More money is spent every year on baldness than on fighting malaria.
Baldness can be ugly, but malaria kills more than a million people a year.
It...
- Added: Apr 22, 2010
- Length: 28:00
Voters in Sudan went to the polls this week for the first time in 24-years. But officials say there have been some “technical problems.”
We’ll fi...
- Added: Apr 16, 2010
- Length: 28:00
Violence against women is commonplace in Afghanistan. It takes all forms: domestic abuse, forced marriage, rape, even honor killings.
This week, ...
- Added: Apr 09, 2010
- Length: 28:00
April marks the 16th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda. Folks there don’t talk about it much and it’s not taught in the schools.
This week ...
- Added: Apr 01, 2010
- Length: 28:00
Congress may have passed a health care reform bill, but things aren’t likely to change much for street musicians in New Orleans who struggle to mak...
- Added: Mar 26, 2010
- Length: 28:00
The earthquake that ripped through Haiti has been a learning experience for students at the country’s only film school. Instead of shooting fictio...
- Added: Mar 19, 2010
- Length: 28:00
Okay, you’re on the road in Pakistan and your car breaks down. You pull into the nearest auto garage and an eight-year old kid comes out to look u...
- Added: Mar 11, 2010
- Length: 28:00
The U.S. promises to ship relief supplies and equipment to Chile where an earthquake has claimed more than 800 lives and displaced two million othe...
- Added: Mar 05, 2010
- Length: 28:00
Thousands of homeless children in Los Angeles often slip through the cracks as their families move from home, to street, to shelter. Keeping homel...
- Added: Feb 19, 2010
- Length: 28:00
Haitians have their roots in Africa. But do they want to go back to Africa? This week the World Vision Report talks with Haitians about an offer ...
- Added: Feb 12, 2010
- Length: 28:00
As Haitian refugees arrive in the U.S., many bring with them the emotional scars of surviving a devastating earthquake. Overcoming those emotional...
- Added: Feb 05, 2010
- Length: 28:00
Recovery efforts continue in earthquake ravaged Haiti where as many as 200-thousand people are believed dead and three million people are displaced...
- Added: Jan 22, 2010
- Length: 28:00
Go ahead -- take a guess.
What’s the most-watched television show in the world?
TV is sweeping across the developing world like a prairie fire.
And...
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- Added: Jan 08, 2010
- Length: 28:00
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This week the World Vision Report reflects back on some of our stories that have won major awards over the past few years.
In short, this week’s sh...
- Added: Dec 22, 2009
- Length: 28:00
In remote regions of China, educational opportunities are limited. That’s because most of the qualified teachers leave for more lucrative teaching...
- Added: Dec 22, 2009
- Length: 28:00
A series of wars and conflicts has left an estimated one-and-a-half million unexploded bombs and landmines scattered all across Lebanon. Efforts t...
- Added: Dec 18, 2009
- Length: 28:00
Climatologists and politicians are working feverishly this week in Copenhagen to hammer out an agreement on what to do about global warming. You ca...
- Added: Dec 10, 2009
- Length: 28:00
