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By: Shannon Young on Jan 09, 2010
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My first encounter with the camotero cart was through its distant whistle in the streets of Mexico City. "What was that?" I asked a friend. I think the explanation confused me more than the sound; a wood more...
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By: Shannon Young on Nov 07, 2009
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My first encounter with wild mushrooms from the Sierra Norte was at Oaxaca City's Central de Abastos market. A vendor from the mountainous region had descended to the sprawling valley market with some exceptionally tasty specimens. more...
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Heba Aly is a Khartoum-based freelance journalist. She has worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in both radio and television, as well as many of Canada's largest daily newspapers. She has also worked for the United Nations' humanitarian news service (IRIN) in Senegal, West Africa and Chad, central Africa.
As a freelancer in Sudan, Heba has contributed news and features to various outlets, including the Globe and Mail, Christian Science Monitor, Public Radio International and IRIN. She speaks fluent Englsh and French, and also speaks Arabic and Spanish. 
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.
Don Duncan is a freelance print and radio reporter and videographer based in Beirut, Lebanon, where he covered the country's recent election, it's 2007 political crisis, and the conflict at the Nahr al Bared Palestinian camp.
His reporting has also brought him to Afghanistan, where he covered the plight of the country's disabled and the advances in development in the north of the country; to Miami, to look into the shifting power-play of Florida's Latino vote, between Cubans and non-Cuban Hispanics; and most recently to Nepal and Bhutan where, funded by The Nation Institute in New York, he investigated the beginnings of an insurgency facing Bhutan as it settles into its newly-created democracy.
Originally from Ireland, Don speaks fluent French and Irish. He holds the Bachelor's degree in literature from Trinity College Dublin and Master's degrees in politics and journalism from Columbia University in New York.
Don's recent stories on the World Vision Report are listed here.
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.
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.