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They're known as the food deserts. Low-income neighborhoods in the five boroughs of New York City where people live below the poverty level amidst busy business districts. more...

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By: Derek Moyo on Dec 20, 2008

Covering the cholera story was no easy task. I woke up at 4 a.m. to drive to the border town of Musina in South Africa, which for the past three weeks had been battling a cholera outbreak that has killed more than 1,000 people in neighbouring Zimbabwe.

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By: Donald Giesen on Nov 10, 2008
When I went to Kijabe Hospital to meet the children who had been burned in the violence following the controversial elections in Kenya, and talk to them about their experiences, I was actually expecting them to be confined to their beds and in a terrible state. more...
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I never expected her to die. When I saw little Fatmata's rotten leg up close in the operating room, and heard her painful screams in bed, I knew she was in bad shape. more...

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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.

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.

Marcos Federman

Marcos Federman

Marcos' passions are social communications, radio, culture, people, and traveling. His favorite radio programs are technology and traveling. He says, "I love walking the world."


Marcos was part of the founding interdisciplinary team that created a psychiatric radio program in Argentina, and he has created a documentary on the subject. He works as a reporter for a few radio stations.

Marcos' blog.

Sarah Kramer

Sarah Kramer

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.

Ruxandra Guidi

Ruxandra Guidi Ruxandra Guidi is an independent journalist working in radio, print, and multimedia. She's based in Austin, TX, and reports regularly from the Caribbean, and both South and Central America.