Stories from the World Vision Report

Series produced by World Vision Report

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Individual stories from the weekly World Vision Report.

Individual stories from the weekly World Vision Report.


148 Pieces

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Queen's Trek
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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The Kingdom of Bhutan is a small country with big mountains and ancient Buddhist traditions. It’s tucked up against the Himalayas between India an...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Apr 15, 2011
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 2
Cuba Economy
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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While all eyes have been on North Africa and the Middle East these last few months, some significant changes in Cuba have gone more or less unnotic...

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  • Added: Apr 15, 2011
  • Length: 05:49
  • Purchases: 2
Copts Future
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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During the revolution in Egypt, Muslims and Christians united to oust the government. During those tense days in Tahrir square, Christians and Musl...

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  • Added: Apr 15, 2011
  • Length: 05:25
  • Purchases: 2
Katrina Cookbook
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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Many of the poorest residents of New Orleans lost everything in hurricane Katrina, but what some miss most may surprise you. This is a food-loving...

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  • Added: Apr 15, 2011
  • Length: 04:37
  • Purchases: 3
Fixer's Arrest
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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Earlier in the show, you heard a report from Grant Fuller about Cubans being allowed to start small businesses. While Grant was in Cuba, he became ...

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  • Added: Apr 15, 2011
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 2
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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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
Spent Homeless Video Game
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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The recession is hitting a lot of people hard, and not always in obvious ways. Some of the formerly unemployed have managed to find jobs. But the p...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 08, 2011
  • Length: 05:21
  • 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...

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  • Added: Apr 08, 2011
  • Length: 03:44
  • Purchases: 3
Smoked Tomatoes
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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It’s almost tomato time in the US. Summer is temptingly close for those who enjoy buying their produce from farmers markets or growing their own. ...

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  • Added: Apr 08, 2011
  • Length: 04:15
  • Purchases: 2
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...

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  • 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...

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  • Added: Apr 01, 2011
  • Length: 05:06
  • 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

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