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The Youngest Headmaster in the World Teaches Hundreds of Poor Children

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13 Oct 2009 37 views
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The Youngest Headmaster in the World Teaches Hundreds of Poor Children
Around the world millions of children are not getting a proper education because their families are too poor to afford to send them to school. In India, Babar Ali is changing that with his remarkable education project transforming the lives of hundreds of poor children.

Around the world millions of children are not getting a proper education because their families are too poor to afford to send them to school. In India, one schoolboy is trying to change that.

A BBC reporter travels to meet Babar Ali, whose remarkable education project is transforming the lives of hundreds of poor children.

800 students travel in the late afternoon to Babar's home and study beneath lean-to structures.

Click to read or watch the BBC report. (Watch also the two other videos about Babar that follow the main story.) Photo from BBC video

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