Stories from the World Vision Report
Series produced by World Vision Report
Individual stories from the weekly World Vision Report.
Individual stories from the weekly World Vision Report.
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Grain exports from the US are unusually high right now thanks in part to a grain shortage in Russia. Here’s why. Over the summer, Russia experien...
- Added: Oct 15, 2010
- Length: 05:04
More and more girls are going to school in Liberia. That’s partly because a female role model – Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf - inspire...
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- Added: Oct 15, 2010
- Length: 07:12
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Driving in India is a nightmare. The streets are chaotic and dangerous. In fact, India recently surpassed China to lead the world in traffic fata...
- Added: Oct 15, 2010
- Length: 04:00
Life without sports. Think about it. No soccer matches, no football to watch, no field to play in.
That's how it's been in the Gaza Strip over th...
- Added: Oct 15, 2010
- Length: 06:28
Girls and women in Nepal live in a culture that treats them as second-class citizens. But they have a very public way of expressing their displeas...
- Added: Oct 15, 2010
- Length: 05:00
According to most reports, America’s public education system is crumbling, turning out students who lag far behind their international peers. Amer...
- Added: Oct 15, 2010
- Length: 03:44
Mexico has an immigration problem. Tapachula, just a few miles up the road from Guatemala, is full of foreigners. The town is a way station for C...
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- Added: Oct 22, 2010
- Length: 06:36
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India is in the middle of a census. For the first time in 80 years, the census will ask all one billion plus people in India to identify their cas...
- Added: Oct 22, 2010
- Length: 04:58
For many people foreign languages are confounding to those who don’t know them. But Jina Moore finds beauty in words she doesn’t know – and a cozy...
- Added: Oct 22, 2010
- Length: 02:44
California's Central Valley produces fruit and vegetables for the nation. But recently, hard times have caused many farm workers to turn to food ai...
- Added: Oct 22, 2010
- Length: 04:53
Almost half the population of Haiti can’t read or write. January’s earthquake destroyed 80% of the schools in and around Port-au-Prince. So, many...
- Added: Oct 22, 2010
- Length: 05:35
The two bombs found on cargo planes last week are stark reminders of the war on terror. It’s a war Jake Harriman knows well. He was a special-ops...
- Added: Nov 05, 2010
- Length: 07:21
Cell phones in the developing world are used for just about everything: transferring money, checking crop prices at the market, and for reminding p...
- Added: Nov 05, 2010
- Length: 02:52
Five years ago, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was elected president of Liberia. She was the first woman president in all of Africa. Sirleaf inherited a c...
- Added: Nov 05, 2010
- Length: 06:57
Baking bread is a time-honored tradition in almost any culture. For a woman in Argentina, it’s how she makes her living. Marcos Federman has this...
- Added: Nov 05, 2010
- Length: 03:14
You often hear people railing about the media, but aid worker and author William Powers is not one of them. He’s seen the power of radio first han...
- Added: Nov 05, 2010
- Length: 03:26
Leonidas Ndayisaba doesn’t sound any different than the other hosts on his radio station in Butare, a city in Southern Rwanda. But Leonidas is blin...
- Added: Nov 12, 2010
- Length: 04:43
There were elections last week in Burma. But things won’t change much. The first parliamentary elections in 20 years returned the ruling party t...
- Added: Nov 12, 2010
- Length: 03:18
In you lived in sub-Saharan Africa your chances of getting a prescription for a pair of eyeglasses would be almost impossible. There’s only one op...
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- Added: Nov 12, 2010
- Length: 03:47
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There are many aid workers on the ground in Haiti. Some were there before the earthquake last January. Many others have flown in over the last te...
- Added: Nov 12, 2010
- Length: 03:37
