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Copyright 2004 World Vision Inc. |  | John Schenk is World Vision’s manager of communications resources for the Middle East and Eastern Europe region. Traveling throughout countries in the Balkans, the Caucasus, Central Asia and the Middle East, Schenk produces stories, still photographs and video on people and issues such as poverty, ethnic and religious strife and rebuilding economies in the post-Soviet era.
From 1972 to 1985, Schenk established his career as a photojournalist and reporter working with the Pasadena Star News, the Kitchner-Waterloo Record and the Toronto Sun and freelancing for newspapers and magazines.
In 1985, Schenk produced features on Canadians working in Ethiopia during “the great famine” that killed nearly a million people. Later that year, he became the in-country representative for Canadian Physicians for Aid and Relief in Ethiopia.
Schenk joined World Vision as the communications manager for the organization’s office in Ethiopia in 1986. The following year, he moved to World Vision’s Africa regional office in Nairobi, Kenya. There, he produced stories, photos and video footage of World Vision’s development work in Africa and responded to fast-breaking stories such as natural disasters and armed conflicts in Angola, Rwanda, Somalia and southern Sudan.
In 1995, Schenk moved to Federal Way, Washington, where his responsibilities included training communications staff around the world, developing technologies for information distribution and reporting on World Vision’s work in Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe and the Middle East. In addition, Schenk has covered many emergencies including those in Angola, Kosovo, Lebanon, Somalia and Sudan.
He moved to Cyprus in 2004 to take his current position.
Schenk holds a bachelor’s degree in theater arts with additional coursework in journalism and German from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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