This week on the World Vision Report:

Host Peggy Wehmeyer talks with Nairobi reporter Michael Kaloki about the severe drought in Kenya ... An umbrella repairman stays busy during India's monsoon season ... Rumors of water turning to blood wake Liberians during the night ... Many schools in Pakistan are known as "ghost schools" because they exist only on paper ... Shehzad Roy, famous Pakistani singer, becomes an education advocate ... Faris Kasim tells us about Pakistan's first educational sleep-away camp for boys - and girls ... Kurdish women in Turkey learn to read as they launder their clothes ... Homeless kids go to "Camp Harmony," a summer camp in the California mountains ... "Global Lingo" teaches music - and non-violence - to poor kids throughout the world.
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Project Ahimsa was founded in the wake of 9/11, to raise money for victims of the wave of hate crimes that followed the tragedy. Now the project brings music classes to poor children around the world who live in communities racked by violence.

Host Peggy Wehmeyer talks with Robin Sukadia about the project's new album, "Global Lingo."

http://www.worldvisionreport.org/Stories/Week-of-September-12-2009/Global-Lingo#

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