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By: Tendai Maphosa on Jan 10, 2009
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When I was growing up in Rhodesia, the education system was segregated. There was a ‘European’ or white ministry of education and a ministry of African (black) education. Needless to say the whites enjoyed a superior education than us black kids.
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Chris Burrell lives with his son in East Boston, Massachusetts. A freelance radio and television producer, he has contributed work to WGBH and WBUR and to the shows, Here & Now and The Takeaway. He was a staff writer for the Vineyard Gazette and has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe and Philadelphia Inquirer.
Chris' 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.
Nancy Greenleese can't help but report from Rome, Italy. Every day seems worthy of a documentary, from her morning cappuccino with a heart design in the foam to churches that resonate with the enchanting sounds of nuns singing vespers.
The radio and print reporter also travels widely. She's covered bird-watching in Trinidad and Tobago, professional baseball in Mexico, and Brunei's obsession with the smelly fruit durian.
Nancy's recent stories on the World Vision Report are listed here.
Kelley Weiss is a freelance journalist based in Northern California. Her stories air on NPR's Morning Edition, All Things Considered and Weekend Edition, The World and KQED Public Radio.
Kelley has worked as a photojournalist and staff writer for newspapers but has spent most of her time as a radio reporter specializing in health care coverage. In 2008 she won a national Edward R. Murrow investigative reporting award for a series on a hidden world of illegal prescription drugs sold at swap meets and botánicas.
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.