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For Air Beginning Dec. 31, 2010 Does foreign aid really work? Does it lift people out of poverty? Opponents say it actually feeds corruption, no...

  • Added: Dec 21, 2010
  • Length: 01:50:25
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It's all about giving this week on the World Vision Report – giving time, talents, and resources to help others around the world. From dolls going ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KUOW, Connecticut Public (WNPR), and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Dec 17, 2010
  • Length: 01:50:25
  • Purchases: 4
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Afghanistan is a male dominated country. Women are often treated as little more than an object or possession. No education, no jobs, and abuse is c...

  • Added: Dec 17, 2010
  • Length: 28:00
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A former slave has walked from New York to Washington and through the halls of Congress barefoot to call attention to a big vote in southern Sudan ...

Bought by WRNC-LP


  • Added: Dec 17, 2010
  • Length: 01:50:25
  • Purchases: 1
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How do you build a house without wood, cement, and other construction materials? That's a big problem facing homeowners in the Gaza Strip. So, an i...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2010
  • Length: 28:00
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How do you build a house without wood, cement, and other construction materials? That’s a big problem facing homeowners in the Gaza Strip. So, a...

Bought by WRNC-LP


  • Added: Dec 10, 2010
  • Length: 01:50:25
  • Purchases: 1
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As tensions between North and South Korea heat up, more and more North Koreans may be making a dash for freedom into China. That’s a very perilous...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2010
  • Length: 28:00
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As tensions between North and South Korea heat up, more and more North Koreans may be making a dash for freedom into China. That’s a very perilous...

Bought by WRNC-LP


  • Added: Dec 03, 2010
  • Length: 01:50:25
  • Purchases: 1
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For air Thanksgiving Weekend 2010 Violence against women is commonplace in Afghanistan. It takes all forms: domestic abuse, forced marriage, rap...

  • Added: Nov 22, 2010
  • Length: 28:00
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For air Thanksgiving Weekend 2010. Expectant mothers have a one in 12 chance of dying in childbirth in Liberia. One way to improve those odds is w...

Bought by Marfa Public Radio, WRNC-LP, and KUOW


  • Added: Nov 22, 2010
  • Length: 01:50:25
  • Purchases: 3
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If you’re planning a trip to the Gaza Strip, you better take some bottled water along. Water in Gaza is salty and laced with sewage that seeps int...

  • Added: Nov 19, 2010
  • Length: 28:00
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If you’re planning a trip to the Gaza Strip, you better take some bottled water along. Water in Gaza is salty and laced with sewage that seeps int...

  • Added: Nov 19, 2010
  • Length: 01:50:25
Caption: Pakistani civilians try to get aid from a relief office, Credit: Photo courtesy of the AP
News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

  • Added: Nov 12, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
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As if January's earthquake wasn't enough, Haiti is now dealing with an outbreak of cholera aggravated by flood waters in the wake of Hurricane Toma...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 12, 2010
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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As if January's earthquake wasn't enough, Haiti is now dealing with an outbreak of cholera aggravated by flood waters in the wake of Hurricane Toma...

Bought by WRNC-LP


  • Added: Nov 12, 2010
  • Length: 01:50:25
  • Purchases: 1
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From a firefight in Iraq to fighting extreme poverty in Africa -- that’s the journey of a former special operations officer with the Marines. On t...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2010
  • Length: 28:00
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From a firefight in Iraq to fighting extreme poverty in Africa -- it’s the journey of a former special ops Marine. He’s the top story on this wee...

Bought by WRNC-LP


  • Added: Nov 05, 2010
  • Length: 01:50:25
  • Purchases: 1
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Two clerics in Syria -- one Muslim, one Christian -- talk openly about a subject rarely discussed in public -- HIV-AIDS. They’re working to change...

Bought by KBRP Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 22, 2010
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Two clerics in Syria -- one Muslim, one Christian -- talk openly about a subject rarely discussed in public -- HIV-AIDS. They're working to change ...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Oct 22, 2010
  • Length: 01:50:25
  • Purchases: 1
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When Africans want to escape political persecution, they often come seeking asylum in the U.S. But getting here often involves being smuggled from...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2010
  • Length: 28:00
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When Africans want to escape political persecution, they often come seeking asylum in the U.S. But getting here often involves being smuggled from...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2010
  • Length: 01:50:25
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You think driving to work in your town is a mess? Try navigating the streets of India’s major cities. It’s chaos and confusion of the first order...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2010
  • Length: 28:00
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You think driving to work in your town is a mess? Try navigating the streets of India’s major cities. It’s chaos and confusion of the first order...

  • Added: Oct 14, 2010
  • Length: 01:50:25
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Children in one of Rio de Janeiro’s biggest slums take up surfing instead of drugs and crime. Promoters say surfboarding has worked wonders over t...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2010
  • Length: 28:00
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Children in one of Rio de Janeiro’s biggest slums take up surfing instead of drugs and crime. Promoters say surfboarding has worked wonders over t...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2010
  • Length: 01:50:25