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H tions — too many.tales of .:
corruption, misappropriation
and fraud end up as fodder

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- “> Thus, it was with some trepi-

“dation that MuchMusic host ..
Terry David Mulligan and Juno-

* “award-winning rocker Tom

“Cochrane accepted an invitation
by:World Vision Canada, a
Toronto-based Christian humani-
‘tarian relief agency, to doa

journalistic evaluation”. of the

“sorganization.: hy

sedn particular, the agency
-wished.to show where the
money.from events such as the «
:30-Hour Famine (taking place -~

‘across Canada this Friday and.’

“Saturday, Feb!-25 and 26) even-

“tually.ended up;

“3 \Nerld:Vision raises millions
Of dollars through the event and:
they wanted to let the high

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“i'm a tough sell to begin
- with,” says Mulligan. “I’m cau-_
tious Of anythin organized ~-
~ anything. And Cochrane is an
“even tougher sell. : .

“> “So | just told them, ‘You're
going to have to prove yourselves
to us before.we get.involved.’ ” ’

‘The challenge set in motion a
six-month hail of faxes, indepen-
_ dent news articles and film’
~ footage’ chronicling World
: Vision's efforts in more than 90.
nations‘including Mozambique,
“Kenya, Ethiopia, Thailand,
Cambodia and the like. 2.

‘The. pair. were moved by what”
“they saw."

“Finally, Tom and i phoned:

hem back’and said,/OK, let's go
to’ Mozambique and see what :
this is‘all about.’”

“Arriving: for their first tour”
three years ago, they were horri-
fied. The country was in the

“midst of a drought and 13 years
‘ into’a 16-year war between gov- |

‘ernment forces and the South

' African-backed Renamo rebels.

“Mozambique had been a
- Portuguese colony and when
they left they destroyed every-
thing t that worked and really

ground bustle of kids, a dog and
va telephone th never stop tir

: neSeuca by enlisting the’ aid,’
of high-profile individuals-such °
as Mulligan and Cochrane:and

onvincing them to accompany .

on:camera — the agency's:
ssions to ravaged countries, °
‘World Vision could get their

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“IN THE Namacatta village in Mozambique, Terry David Mulligan
(top) and Tom Cochrane help out with the distribution. of agri-
cultura) packs which supply residents with the basics. :

screwed the country and left it

with a broken infrastructure,”

explains Mulligan, necessarily
simplifying a complex scenario
‘that has more subplots:and
antagonists than a double
episode of The Rockiord Files.
“As a result, when the drought
came they were buggered. Then,
of course, the rebels would take

the young men from the villages

and train them as guerrilla fight-
. ers.

“As. we flew over, we could
see hundreds of miles of farm-
.. land that had al! been torched.
* They killed men, women, chil-
dren — just wiped out entire vil-
lages.”
_ Mulligan and Cochrane ended :
up ata World Vision refugee -
camp in.a town called Morrua.

“They were losing 50 people a
day until World Vision got there
and set up a wet-feeding com-
pound with hugh vats of a very
powerful porridge-like substance
filled with vitamins, which. is
about all the body can take in
that condition.

“They managed to reduce the

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