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Every year, the yearlong efforts of Boston-area schoolchildren culminate in an end-of-the-year extravaganza called KIDSHOW. The performance is coordinated by STAGE (Student Theater Advancing Growth and Empowerment), an after-school program that works at five different sites in and around Boston. In the group, Harvard undergraduate volunteers try to teach children important life skills through a performing arts curriculum. “Theater is this really powerful tool, not just for performing arts,” says former STAGE President, current board member, and after-school volunteer Christopher W. Lawton...
...city with Arabs from the south. Now ethnic tensions are erupting as Kurds demand the return of Kirkuk to their control. The day I visited in March, a series of two car bombs and three roadside bombs killed 18 people. On April 1, at least 15 people, including eight schoolchildren, died in a suicide truck bombing...
Percentage of Afghan schoolchildren who attend classes in tents and damaged or destroyed school buildings. This hits girls particularly hard as parents want them to study in more protected areas. Only 4 in 10 Afghan girls attend primary school...
Minka Van Beuzekom, who described herself as a member of the Area 4 Neighborhood Coalition Rodent Committee (A4NCRC), said the presence of rats could “only be solved by, dare I say it, a holistic approach,” including educating schoolchildren on the perils of littering and increasing fines for improper trash disposal...
...While we waited, Danielo and I settled into a nearby caf? to watch Sao Tome life go by. There was an endless stream of happy schoolchildren, looking overjoyed to be young and in school. There were smiling couples on motorcycles, apparently delighted to be young, in love and on a motorbike. There was the occasional mildly serious-looking man on a motorbike - later, when I watched the local news (lead national news item: a new footbridge) I realized we'd been buzzed by the Foreign Minister, the Minister of Regional Zones and the director of the Sao Tome-Portugal Business...