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By: Don Duncan on Jul 10, 2010

I spent three months reporting this story, on separate trips to the West Bank, Syria and in Lebanon. The entire time was a continuous discovery more...

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By: Grant Fuller on Dec 06, 2009

From the moment I first heard music from a backpack in the Mexico City subway, I wanted to know more. The sound itself just screams radio story. And the backpacks they've rigged up are truly creative. I r more...

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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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I am a musician. I have a passion for an Andean instrument called the charango, the traditions that surround it, and the campesinos and lower class of Bolivia’s cities that claim it as their own. more...

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Grant Fuller

Grant Fuller

Grant Fuller is an independent radio producer living in Mexico City. He has a degree from Trinity University and a certificate from the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. His work has appeared on the World Vision Report, NYTimes.com, Weekend America, and Morning Edition through the American oral history project, StoryCorps.

Grant's recent stories on the World Vision Report are listed here.

Jared Ferrie

Jared Ferrie

Jared Ferrie is a freelance journalist and correspondent for The National Newspaper. He was born in Vancouver where he worked as a daily reporter for print and radio, but after reading one too many books written by foreign correspondents he decided to move overseas. Jared has reported from countries in West Africa and Southeast Asia, as well as Afghanistan and rebel-held territory in Sri Lanka. He currently lives in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Carla Seidl

Carla Seidl

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.

Amelia de Sousa

Amelia de Sousa 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.
Emily Wong

Emily Wong

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.