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Leonidas Ndayisaba doesn’t sound any different than the other hosts on his radio station in Butare, a city in Southern Rwanda. But Leonidas is blin...
- Added: Nov 12, 2010
- Length: 04:43
You often hear people railing about the media, but aid worker and author William Powers is not one of them. He’s seen the power of radio first han...
- Added: Nov 05, 2010
- Length: 03:26
Baking bread is a time-honored tradition in almost any culture. For a woman in Argentina, it’s how she makes her living. Marcos Federman has this...
- Added: Nov 05, 2010
- Length: 03:14
Five years ago, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was elected president of Liberia. She was the first woman president in all of Africa. Sirleaf inherited a c...
- Added: Nov 05, 2010
- Length: 06:57
The two bombs found on cargo planes last week are stark reminders of the war on terror. It’s a war Jake Harriman knows well. He was a special-ops...
- Added: Nov 05, 2010
- Length: 07:21
Almost half the population of Haiti can’t read or write. January’s earthquake destroyed 80% of the schools in and around Port-au-Prince. So, many...
- Added: Oct 22, 2010
- Length: 05:35
California's Central Valley produces fruit and vegetables for the nation. But recently, hard times have caused many farm workers to turn to food ai...
- Added: Oct 22, 2010
- Length: 04:53
For many people foreign languages are confounding to those who don’t know them. But Jina Moore finds beauty in words she doesn’t know – and a cozy...
- Added: Oct 22, 2010
- Length: 02:44
India is in the middle of a census. For the first time in 80 years, the census will ask all one billion plus people in India to identify their cas...
- Added: Oct 22, 2010
- Length: 04:58
Mexico has an immigration problem. Tapachula, just a few miles up the road from Guatemala, is full of foreigners. The town is a way station for C...
Bought by WBEZ
- Added: Oct 22, 2010
- Length: 06:36
- Purchases: 1
According to most reports, America’s public education system is crumbling, turning out students who lag far behind their international peers. Amer...
- Added: Oct 15, 2010
- Length: 03:44
Girls and women in Nepal live in a culture that treats them as second-class citizens. But they have a very public way of expressing their displeas...
- Added: Oct 15, 2010
- Length: 05:00
Life without sports. Think about it. No soccer matches, no football to watch, no field to play in.
That's how it's been in the Gaza Strip over th...
- Added: Oct 15, 2010
- Length: 06:28
Driving in India is a nightmare. The streets are chaotic and dangerous. In fact, India recently surpassed China to lead the world in traffic fata...
- Added: Oct 15, 2010
- Length: 04:00
More and more girls are going to school in Liberia. That’s partly because a female role model – Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf - inspire...
Bought by WBEZ
- Added: Oct 15, 2010
- Length: 07:12
- Purchases: 1
Gloria 2 is a theater in downtown Ingeniero Maschwitz, not far from Buenos Aires. Marcus Federman lives there and belongs to the group that opened...
- Added: Oct 15, 2010
- Length: 03:47
Grain exports from the US are unusually high right now thanks in part to a grain shortage in Russia. Here’s why. Over the summer, Russia experien...
- Added: Oct 15, 2010
- Length: 05:04
Most farmers In Haiti have abandoned rural areas over the past 50 years to go live in the city. But one community in the Central Plateau has manag...
Bought by KZYX and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Oct 08, 2010
- Length: 06:04
- Purchases: 2
Some people in Tanzania say alcohol consumption is contributing to greater poverty. Two liquor companies there now package strong liquor in small ...
- Added: Oct 08, 2010
- Length: 04:02
A recent travel warning has put tourists in Europe on high alert. But tourists are traveling freely in Libya for the first time in decades. The c...
- Added: Oct 08, 2010
- Length: 03:15
There were no outright winners in last Sunday’s presidential election in Brazil. Frontrunner Dilma Rousseff faces a run off election. She’s hopin...
- Added: Oct 08, 2010
- Length: 04:22
Iraq appears to be inching toward establishing a new government. But the outcome won’t affect Rodwan Nakshabandi. He left Iraq in the late 80s af...
Bought by WBEZ and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Oct 08, 2010
- Length: 03:32
- Purchases: 2
In a new series, “Stuff that Works” we look at good ideas that solve a specific problem. All across West Africa, you can buy water on the street. ...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WBEZ
- Added: Sep 24, 2010
- Length: 02:36
- Purchases: 3
You know about illegal immigrants who swim across the Rio Grande to get into Texas. But down on Mexico's southern border with Guatemala it’s the R...
Bought by WBEZ
- Added: Sep 24, 2010
- Length: 04:21
- Purchases: 1
More than six million cars, trucks, and other vehicles clog the streets of New Delhi, India every day. And there’s not nearly enough police to enf...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Sep 24, 2010
- Length: 04:50
- Purchases: 3
