ALLISON CROSS

The TV story my international reporting class produced this year will air next Tuesday, June 23 at 9 p.m. on the PBS show Frontline World. A preview of the story can be seen here. Check your local listings for the availability of PBS in Canada.

The topic is electronic waste. We took a look at what happens to your old computers after you throw them out or recycle them, and tracked actual containers full of "e-waste" all the way from Vancouver to Hong Kong. Our class of ten students and three instructors split into three groups and flew to Ghana, China and India. My team went to Hong Kong and China and we had an incredible, exhausting experience. Most of the e-waste ends up in developing countries, where workers pick apart the toxic machinery, which damages their health and the environment.

Please watch the story for me - as I don't have TV here in Sierra Leone. Feedback on the story is welcome.