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By: Heba Aly on Apr 08, 2009
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I lived for two weeks in an Arab village at the edge of the Nubian Desert in northern Sudan, a five-hour drive from the capital Khartoum. Seeing the way people lived in this village – without electricity or clean water and with only shoddy health and educational services – really helped me appreciate what I had. more...
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By: Heba Aly on Dec 26, 2008
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Every time I call home and refer to "Arabs" and "Africans" in Sudan, my mother always stops me and says "What do you mean? Aren't they all Africans?"
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By: Heba Aly on Oct 16, 2008
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Poverty-stricken Africa.
We've all seen the images of malnourished children, overcrowded refugee camps, nomads foraging for food in the desert.
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Prue Clarke is an independent reporter specializing in Africa. She has exposed child slavery, corruption in foreign mining operations and a burgeoning child sex industry. Her reporting has won numerous awards in the United States and Canada.
Prue was previously a reporter with the Financial Times newspaper and the ABC.
Prue's recent stories on the World Vision Report are listed here.
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. 
Taurai Maduna is a Zimbabwean journalist based in Johannesburg, South Africa.
As a photographer, his work has been used by international news agencies that include Agence France Presse (AFP) and the European Pressphoto Agency (EPA).
As a writer his work has been used by IRIN News and Panos London.
Kira Neel is a freelance journalist currently based in New York City. She works with youth around the world as a performer and workshop facilitator to document the effects of globalization and the happenings of an increasingly connected world. 
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.