The closest I have ever had to a "driveway" moment was in my apartment, running late, throwing my school things into my bag and taking hurried sips of coffee. My BBC podcast, which I play every morning, was rolling in the background, streaming in spats of world news into my apartment in Austin, my home of late.
The BBC Global News podcast condenses the most interesting world news stories into a 30 minute segment. My favorite is the first person, man on the street interviews that journalists conduct and include in their stories, allowing me to enjoy a local perspective from Iran or China while I brush my hair and slip on my shoes in Texas.
This morning, a story from Haiti stopped me in my tracks. This audio story was a segment from the BBC's World Have Your Say program. It was a follow up story to the earthquake in Haiti, featuring it's forgotten victims: women who were increasingly victims of rape in the overcrowded tents that housed too many after the natural disaster. A local woman told her story about how two generations of her family members had been raped. She spoke Haitian -- a fiery burst of conviction as she condemned these crimes. As more women shared their stories, including one about a one-year-old baby who had been raped, the male interviewer paused. I could feel the constriction of his throat -- the painful well of tears that were kept tightly at bay: they were my own.
Afterward, I shared the story with friends in effort to help build awareness about this crises. Audio stories such as these keep me connected to the world via sheer empathy.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00fd291
The BBC Global News podcast condenses the most interesting world news stories into a 30 minute segment. My favorite is the first person, man on the street interviews that journalists conduct and include in their stories, allowing me to enjoy a local perspective from Iran or China while I brush my hair and slip on my shoes in Texas.
This morning, a story from Haiti stopped me in my tracks. This audio story was a segment from the BBC's World Have Your Say program. It was a follow up story to the earthquake in Haiti, featuring it's forgotten victims: women who were increasingly victims of rape in the overcrowded tents that housed too many after the natural disaster. A local woman told her story about how two generations of her family members had been raped. She spoke Haitian -- a fiery burst of conviction as she condemned these crimes. As more women shared their stories, including one about a one-year-old baby who had been raped, the male interviewer paused. I could feel the constriction of his throat -- the painful well of tears that were kept tightly at bay: they were my own.
Afterward, I shared the story with friends in effort to help build awareness about this crises. Audio stories such as these keep me connected to the world via sheer empathy.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00fd291
That's really intense stuff. Thank you for sharing that.
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