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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Mockingbirds Music School
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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In Mexico, folk music does more than just entertain. It’s a kind of oral history – a way to preserve and pass on stories about life and communitie...

Bought by KLCC, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and HCC Radio The Dragon


  • Added: Feb 04, 2011
  • Length: 06:21
  • Purchases: 3
Reformed Guerillas
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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The Marxist rebel group called the FARC has been waging a deadly war against the Colombian government for more than 40 years. But in the last eight...

Bought by WBEZ and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 04, 2011
  • Length: 07:10
  • Purchases: 2
Museveni Rap
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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An aging president who’s been in power for decades, high unemployment, and growing discontent -- it sounds familiar. But this time we’re talking a...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2011
  • Length: 06:19
Train Tamales
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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There are plenty of hungry passengers on El Chepe. That’s the train that takes tourists through the breathtaking scenery of the Copper Canyon in n...

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  • Added: Feb 11, 2011
  • Length: 03:51
  • Purchases: 1
Cocoa Farm
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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Grant Fuller tours a Cacao Farm.

  • Added: Feb 11, 2011
  • Length: 05:23
Ghost Towns in Colombia
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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In Colombia, drug-trafficking paramilitary groups terrorized the country for many years. The violence displaced more than 3.5 million people. Then...

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: Feb 11, 2011
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 1
Holocaust Survivors
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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Egypt’s neighbor, Israel, is also facing protests about the rising price of bread, water, and gas. The labor movement is planning strikes and prot...

Bought by Listenwise


  • Added: Feb 18, 2011
  • Length: 07:13
  • Purchases: 1
Egypt Tourism
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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While other parts of the Arab world are in turmoil now, Egypt celebrates a new beginning. But many Egyptians remain out of work – especially in th...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KRUA


  • Added: Feb 18, 2011
  • Length: 04:13
  • Purchases: 2
India's Milk
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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Danielle Nierenberg highlighted the importance of storage to prevent food from being wasted. The World Vision Report’s Cynthia Graber has one poten...

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon


  • Added: Feb 18, 2011
  • Length: 04:49
  • Purchases: 1
Male Circumcision in South Africa
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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There are no simple solutions to the AIDS crisis in Africa. But researchers have known for several years there is one thing that greatly reduces t...

Bought by KUT, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and HCC Radio The Dragon


  • Added: Feb 18, 2011
  • Length: 05:08
  • Purchases: 3
Line Dancers
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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Americans around the country are struggling in this recession. But in southern West Virginia, coal-mining communities have been living with econom...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2011
  • Length: 06:03
Runners of Iten
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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If you’ve ever watched the end of a long-distance race on TV or in person there’s a good chance it was a runner from Kenya leading the way. For ma...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Feb 25, 2011
  • Length: 06:16
  • Purchases: 1
Refugee Keepsakes
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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Libya is close to Italy – and not just geographically. 100 years ago, Italy invaded the north coast of Africa and set up a colony in what is now L...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2011
  • Length: 04:40
Casas por Cristo
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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Drug violence continues to claim lives in Mexico. Just last weekend more than 40 people were killed in Ciudad Juarez - ground zero in the drug war...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Feb 25, 2011
  • Length: 05:09
  • Purchases: 2
Stilt Girl
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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In India, 40% of the population lives on less than $2 a day. To pay for food and other essentials, people have to come up with out-of-the-ordinary...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and HCC Radio The Dragon


  • Added: Feb 25, 2011
  • Length: 02:39
  • Purchases: 2
Koushary
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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When the massive pro-democracy protests in Cairo began in late January, restaurants and stores around the city’s center closed their doors. Tahrir...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2011
  • Length: 04:16
Jailed Kurdish Children
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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During the turmoil of the last few weeks, Turkey’s been held up as a model of a democratic Muslim country. But Turkey’s got problems of its own. J...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 04, 2011
  • Length: 06:11
  • Purchases: 1
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
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
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

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