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One piece of technology you’ll find in Mexico has fire in its belly and a shrieking whistle to blow off steam. Reporter Shannon Young examines a M...
Bought by KGNU Community Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WBEZ
- Added: Jan 08, 2010
- Length: 03:52
- Purchases: 3
It’s been more than 30-years since the first Barefoot College was established in Tilonia in northern India. Since then smaller Barefoot Colleges h...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jan 08, 2010
- Length: 05:42
- Purchases: 1
Go ahead -- take a guess.
What’s the most-watched television show in the world?
TV is sweeping across the developing world like a prairie fire.
And...
Bought by WKSU
- Added: Jan 08, 2010
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Go ahead – twitter this.
What’s the most-watched television show in the world?
TV is sweeping across the developing world like a prairie fire.
And ...
Bought by WBEZ and Iowa Public Radio
- Added: Jan 08, 2010
- Length: 01:50:25
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Jan 01, 2010
- Length: 29:01
This week the World Vision Report reflects back on some of our stories that have won major awards over the past few years.
In short, this week’s sh...
- Added: Dec 22, 2009
- Length: 28:00
This week, the World Vision Report reflects back on some of the stories that have won major awards over the past few years.
In short, this week’s s...
Bought by KUOW, KXOT Public Radio, and KRUA
- Added: Dec 22, 2009
- Length: 01:50:25
- Purchases: 3
In remote regions of China, educational opportunities are limited. That’s because most of the qualified teachers leave for more lucrative teaching...
- Added: Dec 22, 2009
- Length: 28:00
In remote regions of China, educational opportunities are limited. That’s because most of the qualified teachers leave for more lucrative teaching...
Bought by KXOT Public Radio and KRUA
- Added: Dec 22, 2009
- Length: 01:50:26
- Purchases: 2
Author William Powers spent two years in Liberia during that country’s civil war. He directed relief programs for an aid group operating there. P...
- Added: Dec 18, 2009
- Length: 03:03
We keep hearing that the financial crisis is over, and things are slowly turning around. But aid organizations are still feeling the pinch. As a ...
- Added: Dec 18, 2009
- Length: 04:34
A series of wars and conflicts has left an estimated one-and-a-half million unexploded bombs and landmines scattered all across Lebanon. Efforts t...
- Added: Dec 18, 2009
- Length: 28:00
A series of wars and conflicts has left an estimated one-and-a-half million unexploded bombs and landmines scattered all across Lebanon. Efforts t...
- Added: Dec 18, 2009
- Length: 01:50:25
Global warming is getting plenty of attention this week and next at the UN Conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen. Divisions are surfacing bet...
- Added: Dec 10, 2009
- Length: 04:11
Rape was used as a weapon of war during Liberia’s long civil war. The war is over, but an epidemic of rape continues unabated. At least one rape ...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Dec 10, 2009
- Length: 08:06
- Purchases: 1
Collecting water is a serious business in Kaskikot, Nepal. Reporter Laura Spero found that out when she spent nine months living with a family in ...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KUOW
- Added: Dec 10, 2009
- Length: 03:33
- Purchases: 4
Climatologists and politicians are working feverishly this week in Copenhagen to hammer out an agreement on what to do about global warming. You ca...
- Added: Dec 10, 2009
- Length: 28:00
Thousands of children in Haiti’s capitol city, Port au Prince, beg on the streets to survive. Most street kids are invisible to those passing by. ...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Dec 10, 2009
- Length: 04:33
- Purchases: 1
Climatologists and politicians are working feverishly this week in Copenhagen to hammer out an agreement on what to do about global warming. You ca...
Bought by KRUA
- Added: Dec 10, 2009
- Length: 01:50:25
- Purchases: 1
Finally, there is some good news to report about AIDS. The number of new HIV infections around the world has dropped.
What’s causing it? You’ll...
- Added: Dec 04, 2009
- Length: 28:00
Conservationist Bill Powers worked for five years protecting the rain forest in the Amazon.
He saw first hand how global economic conditions affec...
- Added: Dec 04, 2009
- Length: 03:37
A few days ago, Israel proposed a ten-month freeze on settlements in the West Bank. But Palestinians say that’s not enough. They want the freeze ...
- Added: Dec 04, 2009
- Length: 04:12
Is global poverty an accident or man-made? That’s the question posed in the documentary The End of Poverty? Filmmaker Philippe Diaz sets out to a...
- Added: Dec 04, 2009
- Length: 02:58
Finally, there is some good news to report about AIDS. The number of new HIV infections around the world has dropped.
What’s causing it? You’ll...
Bought by KRUA
- Added: Dec 04, 2009
- Length: 01:50:25
- Purchases: 1
From: UNICEF
Filipino 6th grader Louie Mangali shares his experience of the recent flooding and its aftermath
- Added: Nov 30, 2009
- Length: 03:14
