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Is Haiti a dumping ground for America's leftovers?

By: Chris Burrell on Jun 19, 2010

It's not often that a story idea crops up within view of my apartment window, but this is how I first started asking questions about the ship to Haiti.

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Haitian Dancer: Music that makes you yearn for home.

By: Chris Burrell on Dec 12, 2009

I live in East Boston, Massachusetts, where there's a palpable Latino feel to the neighborhood, mostly El Salvadoran and Colombian. You can literally smell the fresh tortillas in the air when you emerge a more...

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A Day in the Life of a Salvation Army Thriftshop

By: Chris Burrell on Sep 30, 2009

It's fair to say it was the vibe at the Salvation Army Family Store that caught my attention and made me feel as if I wasn't just in some random thrift store. Motown music played on the radio, and it see more...

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Teen Farmers Shift Their Paradigm

By: Chris Burrell on Oct 10, 2009

As is often the case, especially with reporters, one story leads to another. You’re tuned in to a conversation with a farmer named Bill, a 40-year-old man who has lost his job as a land surveyor and dec more...

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Prue Clarke

Prue Clarke

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.

Chris Burrell

Chris Burrell

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.

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.

Kira Neel

Kira Neel 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.
Ben Gilbert

Ben Gilbert

Ben Gilbert is a freelance radio, newspaper and magazine reporter based in Beirut, covering Middle East news, culture, conflict and economics.

His reports from Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and the United Arab Emirates have aired on National Public Radio's All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Public Radio International's The World, American Public Media's Marketplace and Weekend America, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, BBC and ABC Radio.

His magazine and newspaper articles have appeared in US News and World Report, The Christian Science Monitor, The Daily Telegraph and The San Francisco Chronicle.

He is currently the Lebanon correspondent for globalpost.com.