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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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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.
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.
Hailing from New Zealand, James Addison works as senior editor for World Vision Magazine, a publication of World Vision in the U.S.
He is currently on scene in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, covering the effects of the massive January 12 earthquake for World Vision, and relief efforts.
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.
Anna Boiko-Weyrauch is an independent radio producer. Her work has aired on Morning Edition, Weekend America, Marketplace, and Voice of America. She also worked for the United Nations Radio News Service in New York City. Anna is fluent in Japanese and Spanish -– with a smattering of French, Mandarin and Kinyarwanda.