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By: Anna Boiko-Weyrauch on May 22, 2010
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The pain of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is on the surface in Alabama's "Seafood Capital," Bayou la Batre, where Asian grocery stores sit next to Dollar General and Hardee's. more...
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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: Anna Boiko-Weyrauch on Apr 11, 2009
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I was studying abroad in Rwanda when I met the members of the Association of Genocide Survivors (AERG in French). I went there to find out how Hutus and Tutsis could live together, so close together, after what happened in 1994. more...
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Carla Seidl is a singer-songwriter, writer, and independent radio producer currently serving as a Girls' Education and Empowerment volunteer with the Peace Corps in Togo. To find out more about her work, music, and other travel adventures, please visit CarlaSeidl.com.
Gretchen L. Wilson is based in Johannesburg, and reports throughout the continent on globalization, power and money. Her work has appeared on Marketplace, The World, Slate, the BBC, CBC, and in The Daily Beast, The Wall Street Journal, and the Associated Press. Gretchen is also the co-author of From Dust to Diamonds: Stories of South African Social Entrepreneurs (2007). Her Web site is www.gretchenlwilson.com.
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.
Emily Wong's radio stories about Kenya have aired on the World Vision Report, the BBC World Service and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's radio program Dispatches.
At the United Nations Human Settlements Program (UN-HABITAT), she worked as a consultant on gender equality programs, based in Nairobi, Kenya. In the United Kingdom, she has worked as a domestic violence victims' advocate. She lives in London.
Don Duncan is a freelance print and radio reporter and videographer based in Beirut, Lebanon, where he covered the country's recent election, it's 2007 political crisis, and the conflict at the Nahr al Bared Palestinian camp.
His reporting has also brought him to Afghanistan, where he covered the plight of the country's disabled and the advances in development in the north of the country; to Miami, to look into the shifting power-play of Florida's Latino vote, between Cubans and non-Cuban Hispanics; and most recently to Nepal and Bhutan where, funded by The Nation Institute in New York, he investigated the beginnings of an insurgency facing Bhutan as it settles into its newly-created democracy.
Originally from Ireland, Don speaks fluent French and Irish. He holds the Bachelor's degree in literature from Trinity College Dublin and Master's degrees in politics and journalism from Columbia University in New York.
Don's recent stories on the World Vision Report are listed here.