GNP Show 05 (Half Hour) Afghan Orphans
From: World Vision Report
Series: World Vision Report - Weekly Half Hour
Length: 28:00
Host: Peggy Wehmeyer
On this week’s World Vision Report…
· An orphanage in Afghanistan for descendants of Genghis Khan… …
· teenage refugees sing peace but get death threats…
· being hijacked by a desperate woman…
· music from Africa.
Bamiyan Orphanage (3:41)
The descendants of Genghis Khan and his warriors, known as Hazaras, make up one-fifth of the population of Afghanistan. The Taliban murdered tens of thousands of Hazaras in the late 1990s, creating a large population of orphans. More than 200 of those orphans are now cared for in an orphanage outside the city of Bamiyan. But it appears to be a victim of discrimination. Government checks are persistently late and teacher pay is so low they have to have second jobs just to make ends meet. Will Everett reports.
Waayah Cusub (5:41)
Some teenage refugees from Somalia’s long civil war have formed a rap group in a suburb of Nairobi, Kenya and their songs are shaking things up. Waayah Cusub’s songs convey a message of peace and reconciliation, but that’s generated death threats for the group. Somali warlords have a vested interest in continuing the fighting and radical Islamists don’t like songs that deal with taboo subjects. Richard Lough reports.
Hijacker (3:15)
One of the worst places in the world to be a woman is the Democratic Republic of Congo. That’s where reporter Michael Kavanagh tells us in a Reporter’s Notebook about meeting a woman under rather strange circumstances. She jumped in his car to save herself from a fire and her fears from a life of rape, ruin, and constant war.
African Music (5:15)
Music and social protest have been linked for years in America. Now, there’s an entire label devoted to African music and social protest. Two U.S. college students launched the label after going to Africa where they fell in love with the music and were touched by the overwhelming need for social justice. Their first CD already has raised $140,000 to feed refugees from the Darfur region of Sudan. Host Peggy Wehmeyer talks with one of the producers.
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Host: Peggy Wehmeyer
On this week’s World Vision Report…
· An orphanage in Afghanistan for descendants of Genghis Khan… …
· teenage refugees sing peace but get death threats…
· being hijacked by a desperate woman…
· music from Africa.
Bamiyan Orphanage (3:41)
The descendants of Genghis Khan and his warriors, known as Hazaras, make up one-fifth of the population of Afghanistan. The Taliban murdered tens of thousands of Hazaras in the late 1990s, creating a large population of orphans. More than 200 of those orphans are now cared for in an orphanage outside the city of Bamiyan. But it appears to be a victim of discrimination. Government checks are persistently late and teacher pay is so low they have to have second jobs just to make ends meet. Will Everett reports.
Waayah Cusub (5:41)
Some teenage refugees from Somalia’s long civil war have formed a rap group in a suburb of Nairobi, Kenya and their songs are shaking things up. Waayah Cusub’s songs convey a message of peace and reconciliation, but that’s generated death threats for the group. Somali warlords have a vested interest in continuing the fighting and radical Islamists don’t like songs that deal with taboo subjects. Richard Lough reports.
Hijacker (3:15)
One of the worst places in the world to be a woman is the Democratic Republic of Congo. That’s where reporter Michael Kavanagh tells us in a Reporter’s Notebook about meeting a woman under rather strange circumstances. She jumped in his car to save herself from a fire and her fears from a life of rape, ruin, and constant war.
African Music (5:15)
Music and social protest have been linked for years in America. Now, there’s an entire label devoted to African music and social protest. Two U.S. college students launched the label after going to Africa where they fell in love with the music and were touched by the overwhelming need for social justice. Their first CD already has raised $140,000 to feed refugees from the Darfur region of Sudan. Host Peggy Wehmeyer talks with one of the producers.
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