Step on News 24

Date posted: Wednesday 12th October 2005

Avid viewers of BBC News may have already seen two reports featuring <b>Latin Link</b> on BBC News 24.

Thanks to the one of our Summer Step team leaders, who just happens to be a reporter for the BBC, issues facing farmers in Ecuador are being brought to the public's attention on the BBC news channel.

First screened last month, the report features <b>Latin Link's Short-term Coordinator in Ecuador- Orlando Castro's </b> new flower growing cooperative in Santo Domingo. The new initiative (which is featured in next month's <i>Latinfile</i> magazine) is aimed at helping those hit by the decreasing value of Banana crops, start their own small flower growing businesses.

There is also a second report, which features footage filmed at this year's <b>Summer Step Orientation</b>, which looks at the effect that student fees are having on the number of students participating in short-term mission. And how this has caused mission agencies to open up their short-term opportunities to make them accessible to people of all ages.

If that isn't enough to make sure you tune in, then how about the chance to see <b>Mr Chris Stansfield</b> giving his first ever BBC interview!

<i>The reports will be aired regularly over the next few weeks. We don't know exactly when in the schedule, so you'll just have to keep watching!</i>...