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The World Vision Report (Magazine)

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About The World Vision Report

This show is a weekend newsmagazine and daily feature show capturing the human drama behind global issues and events affecting the world's poorest children and families. Honest reporitng, compelling interviews, and in-depth analysis from international reporters highlight the challenges facing the disenfranchised around the world and illuminate solutions for tackling world poverty.

Host: Peggy Wehmeyer
Genres: Magazine , Current Affairs , World
Language: English
Networks: One Place

Location: Atlanta, GA
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Sat, May 30 2009	New RSS and Podcasting Feed URLs World Vision is using Feedburner's services to give a permanent home to our RSS and podcasting feeds. If you are reading this message, that means you have bookmarked an old feed that is no longer active. Please use the following URLs to subscribe to our new RSS and podcasting feeds: To subscribe our RSS feeds (information about weekly stories), go to http://feeds.feedburner.com/WorldVisionReport. To subscribe to our weekly podcast, visit http://feeds.feedburner.com/WorldVisionReportPodcast....
Sat, May 23 2009	Muzzling Journalists Journalist Roxana Saberi was released from an Iranian prison a couple of weeks ago. Her case highlights the dangers journalists face in many parts of the world: censorship, beatings, imprisonment, even death. The Committee to Protect Journalists estimates that some 125 journalists are in jail around the world at any given time. Most of them are local reporters without the clout to secure a quick release. Leda Hartman spoke with Robert Mahoney, deputy director of the Committee to Protect...
Sat, May 23 2009	Niger Delta Chief Violence recently flared again in Nigeria's troubled Niger Delta region, the center of Africa's largest oil industry. Militants have threatened to blockade key waterways there to prevent the export of crude oil. They say they're fighting for a fair share of the profits from oil. Each year the Nigerian government earns billions of dollars from oil exports. In spite of this, people who live on Nigeria's oil reserves live in abject poverty. Oil was first discovered here more than 50 years ago...
Sat, May 23 2009	Domestic Worker Abuse There are about 50,000 foreign domestic workers in Beirut, Lebanon. Most come from Ethiopia, in search of a better life and a well-paying job. But some of these women end up in a nightmare of abuse. Will Everett has this report.
Sat, May 23 2009	India: Building a Better Rickshaw? Many people in the central Indian state of Bihar rely on an old, slow and cheap form of transportation to get around: the bicycle rickshaw. Now, a businessman there has an idea that could turn those three-wheelers into a money-making industry. But will the drivers themselves benefit? We sent reporter Peter Aronson to Patna to find out more.
Sat, May 23 2009	Genda Pool The songGenda Poolis from a very popular Bollywood movie calledDelhi Six.It's sung by the cast of the film and was composed by A. R. Rahman, who wrote the music forSlumdog Millionaire.
Sat, May 23 2009	Child Bride Rebellion There's a new national hero in India: a 12-year-old girl named Rehka. She lives in a small mud hut in a village a day's journey from Calcutta. The region has one of the highest rates of illiteracy in India, and girls are often married young. At age 12, Rehka's parents told her she had to get married. She said no. Word of her refusal made headlines around the country, and since then, parents in surrounding villages have not forced their young daughters to marry. Ben Arnoldy reported this...
Sat, May 23 2009	No Birth Certificates A program in Burkina Faso hopes to give out free birth certificates to five million people there. It's an effort to help fight child labor and underage marriage.
Sat, May 23 2009	The Spirit of the Charango Thecharangois a Bolivian musical instrument that looks a little like a guitar and sounds a bit like a ukulele. But the instrument has its own unique story. Reporter Andrew Reissiger tells the story of a man who’s keeping the spirit of charango alive.
Sat, May 23 2009	From Refugee to Entrepreneur The World Bank announced a few days ago that it will funnel $22 million to Zimbabwe. That's the first injection of World Bank capital there since 2001. The money won't go to the government, but to aid agencies and church groups that help small farmers and the poor. This aid comes too late to help the estimated 3 million people who've already left the country, fleeing the economic meltdown there. Many of them headed south, into South Africa. That's what 31-year-old Joe Moyo (not his real...
Sat, May 23 2009	Child Refugee Many of the people fleeing Zimbabwe's economic chaos for South Africa are children. When reporter Tendai Maphosa was in the border town of Musina, he saw scores of youngsters roaming the streets there. He spoke with one of them. Here's Kenneth's story, in his own words.
Sat, May 23 2009	Modest Needs Many people these days are finding they just don't have enough money to pay the bills. Sometimes a medical emergency or car trouble can use up the money meant for the rent. Keith Taylor faced exactly this problem when he was in graduate school. His car had broken down, and after he repaired it, there was nothing left in the bank. But a friend helped him out. Taylor was so touched, he wanted to find a way to keep helping others. So he set upa Web sitefor people who just need a few hundred...
Sat, May 23 2009	Rickshaw Ambivalence For the past three years, reporter Peter Aronson has lived in India, where rickshaws are a common sight. He says he recoiled at the idea of using another human being to get around. But after speaking with some drivers, he has a different perspective.
Sat, May 16 2009	Swat Refugee Camps The fighting continues to rage in Pakistan's Swat Valley and neighboring districts, forcing hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes. Tens of thousands of them are now living in makeshift camps in the small towns between Swat and Peshawar. Reporter Naheed Mustafa, a freelance journalist based in Toronto, Canada, traveled to one of the largest camps just outside Peshawar and brings us this Reporter's Notebook.
Sat, May 16 2009	Somi Laura Kabasomi Kakoma, who goes by the name Somi, uses music to explore what it means to be an immigrant with ties to two worlds. Somi is the daughter of East Africans, but she was born and raised in Champaign, Illinois. After college, she lived for several years in Kenya and Tanzania. She now lives in New York, but tours frequently in Africa. Her music is a haunting blend of cultures and languages. She calls her style "new African jazz and soul." She visited with host Peggy Wehmeyer.