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Third Coast
From: Alaska Teen Media Institute
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ATMI Reporter Ishmael Streever with a commentary about his experience during the 2010 Third Coast International Audio Festival.

  • Added: Nov 30, 2010
  • Length: 03:10
Read, Read, Read!
From: Learning Matters
Series: Lessons from Haiti: Schools after the earthquake
Caption: Mackenton Louis reads to a group of kids at Lycee Toussaint L'Ouverture in Port-au-Prince, Credit: Judith Scherr/Learning Matters
A group of readers heads out to tent camps around Haiti to read to children displaced by the earthquake.

  • Added: Nov 22, 2010
  • Length: 07:52
Despite Budget Cuts, Youth Meet Their Own Needs
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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When the City of Oakland cut their after school homework help program, High school senior Nora Rose started volunteering at her library to help fil...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2010
  • Length: 02:18
A Young Scholar vs. the Recession
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Thomas McCall, a 20-year-old student-athlete and father-to-be, was already struggling to make it in the American job market. Courtney Supple produc...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2010
  • Length: 02:39
All you need is a wall
From: Alaska Teen Media Institute
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All you need is a wall

  • Added: Sep 27, 2010
  • Length: 05:40
Gamers!
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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The games they play here involve dragons, wizards, and superheroes. And sometimes...they come with stereotypes.

Bought by KUOW and WMPG


  • Added: Jun 03, 2010
  • Length: 08:41
  • Purchases: 2
Horse Therapy
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Caption: Grace Kurlychek, Credit: Dmae Roberts
A girl with disabilities receives emotional and physical therapy through horse-riding.

Bought by KGUA and WRVO Public Media


  • Added: May 01, 2010
  • Length: 05:08
  • Purchases: 2
Civics and Conservation Summit
From: Alaska Teen Media Institute
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Students attending the Alaska Youth for Environmental Action Civics and Conservation Summit discovered that being too young to vote doesn't leave y...

Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network


  • Added: Mar 30, 2010
  • Length: 03:06
  • Purchases: 1
Martial Arts Builds Leadership on Chicago's South Side
From: Avishay Artsy
Caption: Students practice martial arts in Chicago's South Side., Credit: Andrea Silenzi
A martial arts school in Chicago’s South Side reinforces community in a violent neighborhood.

Bought by Vocalo.org


  • Added: Jan 14, 2010
  • Length: 05:30
  • Purchases: 1
Lindsay Ess, Becoming Whole, Pt. 1
From: Charles McGuigan
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Lindsay Ess was a fashion model, a designer, a stunning beauty. And then at the age of twenty-four, just two years ago, doctors had to cut off both...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2010
  • Length: 27:39
A day in the Life: Kids in America and Europe fight for the environment
From: Radijojo World Children's Radio Network
Series: Across the Ocean - the first Transatlantic Radio for kids
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A world premier: For the very first time, radio kids from both side of the Atlantic have produced a common "green" radio show!

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 12, 2009
  • Length: 09:32
  • Purchases: 1
School Gardening In Salt Lake
From: Ross Chambless
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Students and teachers alike are now learning how to grow food at school.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: May 20, 2009
  • Length: 06:18
  • Purchases: 2
A Horse Named "Buckwheat"
From: Rogi Riverstone
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What do you do when they tell you your child is in a persistive vegetative state, tell you to put her in a nursing home and go on with your life? Y...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2009
  • Length: 04:30
It's Bigger Than Hip-Hop
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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A portrait of a man trying to make a difference in kids' lives using music.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WMPG, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Mar 05, 2009
  • Length: 03:54
  • Purchases: 3
Worldwide, Girls' Soccer Goes Beyond the Field
From: Lisa Matuska
Caption: Imane takes a break during a game in Oak Brook
Four young Moroccan female soccer players step outside their borders and expectations to come to Oak Brook, Illinois for a women's soccer leadershi...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KISU, KUOW, and Radijojo World Children's Radio Network


  • Added: Feb 12, 2009
  • Length: 03:28
  • Purchases: 4
After The Train
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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The story of the aftermath of a miraculous escape from death that left two teenage girls scarred for the rest of their lives.

Bought by HowSound, PRX Remix, and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jan 21, 2009
  • Length: 07:41
  • Purchases: 3
The Chinatown Friendship Gate
From: Chinatown Youth Radio Philadelphia
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The icon of Philadelphia Chinatown gets a makeover

Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network


  • Added: Oct 13, 2008
  • Length: 03:56
  • Purchases: 1
Graduation
From: kitty felde
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Audio portrait of everyman's graduation day.

  • Added: Jun 09, 2008
  • Length: 04:36
For teen in trouble, streetwise mentor makes the difference
From: WSHU
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To get kids off a path of drugs and gangs, sometimes it takes a mentor who's been there

Bought by KUOW, New Hampshire Public Radio, and NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: May 29, 2008
  • Length: 05:24
  • Purchases: 3
Parenting All Over Again: Adopting the Grandkids
From: Rebecca Sheir
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The number of grandfamilies is on the rise; meet one of the newest.

Bought by The Neighborhood and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 31, 2008
  • Length: 06:06
  • Purchases: 2
Fatuma's Digital Diary: Daily life for girls in the slums of Kenya
From: UNICEF
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This Story is free! A young girl tells the story of her life in the slums of Nairobi and the lives of other girls in her community

Bought by WMFO and WXLV-FM


  • Added: Oct 27, 2007
  • Length: 04:43
  • Purchases: 2
Anti-Violence Program in Guatemala City keeps youth off the streets
From: UNICEF
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This story is free! Guatemala City's youth are given an alternative to gang life and crime through a unique program in the heart of the city's wors...

  • Added: Sep 20, 2007
  • Length: 05:20
Guatemala's Indigenous Girls: At the forefront
From: UNICEF
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This Story is Free! English and Spanish versions available. Guatemalan girls suffer lower rates of education and poorer health indicators - UNICEF ...

Bought by Radio Catskill


  • Added: Aug 25, 2007
  • Length: 07:01
  • Purchases: 1
Norway Cup gives girls from Zimbabwe a chance to triumph
From: UNICEF
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this Story is free! Young girls like Omega, 13, interviewed here, who are going on to greatness in the Norway Cup Youth Tournament for Football and...

Bought by KISU


  • Added: Jul 27, 2007
  • Length: 02:44
  • Purchases: 1
A platform for young voices in the run-up to the Guatemalan elections
From: UNICEF
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This Story is free! Guatemalan Newspaper and UNICEF Guatemala join forces to survey the electoral preferences and concerns of young people below vo...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2007
  • Length: 04:29