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By: Kira Neel on Oct 10, 2009
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El Alto is a sprawling, fast growing, dusty city. It is located in the altiplano of Bolivia above the city of La Paz, located in a canyon down below. El Alto has over a million people, few trees, and a gr more...
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By: Kira Neel on Apr 10, 2009
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As a vegetarian traveling to South Africa, famous for their delicious, meaty braais (barbecues), I expected to make a lot of my own food. I was delighted when, at my first braai, I tasted chakalaka! South Africans (particularly in urban areas and townships) have been eating this curried baked bean-tomato-carrot-vegetable dish since the early 1900s when it developed in mining camps.
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By: Kira Neel on Oct 15, 2008
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One afternoon, I was making squash pies with Dona Juana, a fierce activist, promoter of women’s rights, and mother of a student at the New Dawn Maya Middle School in Copal AA, Guatemala. 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.
Shannon Mullen is a freelance reporter and film producer based in New England. She is a native of New Hampshire, where she studied Pre-Veterinary Medicine in college and dabbled in professional culinary pursuits before finding her niche in journalism. She has two dogs, lives on a farm, loves traveling and being outdoors. 
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.
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.
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.