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By: Anna Boiko-Weyrauch on Aug 31, 2009
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My dad was the first one to tell me about the Ghanaian Taxi Drivers Association. He was visiting from Seattle and took a cab to meet me one day. "Hey Anna, we had the nicest driver. He was from Ghana and he picked us up on his way to a meeting of all these other Ghanaian taxi drivers — turns out they have this whole association ...." more...
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By: Grant Fuller on Jul 28, 2009
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Call me crazy, but the Titanic beckoned me right from the start. For normal people, it's a place not to be touched with a ten-foot pole. A menacing, soot-blackened skeleton of a building, no lights, no running water, trash everywhere, boarded-up windows, swarming with rebels who fought with Charles Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia and his much-feared private security forces, the Anti-Terrorist Unit. Not exactly the safest place in not exactly the safest country. Right? more...
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By: Laura Spero on Jul 25, 2009
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This piece was recorded in a single morning, but it was a long time in the making. more...
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By: Grant Fuller on Jul 20, 2009
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From the moment I met him, Joseph Parker was smiling. And it wasn't a forced glad-to-meet-you kind of smile. It was more like a permanent lover-of-life smile. more...
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By: Jared Ferrie on Jul 17, 2009
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On a flat, dry plain, to the side of the highway, thousands of tents were lined up in neat rows with mountains hovering in the distance. Many of the 2.5 million people displaced by Pakistan's war against the Taliban had taken refuge in official camps like this one in Swabi. more...
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Sarah Kramer is currently based in New York City. She is a radio producer, photographer, and oral historian. She has lived in Morocco, Chile, Guatemala, France, and the USA. (She likes exploring.) View her work at www.whatisbeau.com.
Sarah's recent stories on the World Vision Report are listed here.
Amelia De Sousa is a journalist based in Haiti. After winning a Fulbright Fellowship to Haiti in 2003 to study mass media and HIV prevention, Amelia started an independent film company to create educational materials for grassroots organizations working in social change. When the government collapsed a year later, Amelia started freelance radio reporting for major broadcasters like National Public Radio, the BBC, and CNN. She has been happy to report for World Vision Report since January of 2006. 
Heba Aly is a Khartoum-based freelance journalist. She has worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in both radio and television, as well as many of Canada's largest daily newspapers. She has also worked for the United Nations' humanitarian news service (IRIN) in Senegal, West Africa and Chad, central Africa.
As a freelancer in Sudan, Heba has contributed news and features to various outlets, including the Globe and Mail, Christian Science Monitor, Public Radio International and IRIN. She speaks fluent Englsh and French, and also speaks Arabic and Spanish.
Anna Boiko-Weyrauch is an independent radio producer. Her work has aired on Morning Edition, Weekend America, Marketplace, and Voice of America. She also worked for the United Nations Radio News Service in New York City. Anna is fluent in Japanese and Spanish -– with a smattering of French, Mandarin and Kinyarwanda.
