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...last a sensible comment on foreign aid for education. One of the easiest projects to fund in developing countries is building a school. Schools are useless without teachers and teachers in developing countries are poorly educated and qualified. Many daunting problems would evaporate if all the world was similarly well educated. A step in that direction would be to channel educational aid into a massive project to send all newly qualified teachers from richer countries on a gap year to teach in an underdeveloped country. The teachers are young, fresh and motivated and would inspire their pupils likewise. Joanna Perry...
...last a sensible comment on foreign aid for education. One of the easiest projects to fund in developing countries is building a school. Schools are useless without teachers and teachers in developing countries are poorly educated and qualified. Many daunting problems would evaporate if all the world was similarly well educated. A step in that direction would be to channel educational aid into a massive project to send all newly qualified teachers from richer countries on a gap year to teach in an underdeveloped country. The teachers are young, fresh and motivated and would inspire their pupils likewise. Joanna Perry...
...world. But Khan turns it into something more. In his hands, the true story of Paan Singh Tomar, a track-and-field champion turned mountain bandit, becomes a parable about the frustrated poor. Khan says the film, written and directed by Tigmanshu Dhulia, an old friend from drama school, appealed to him because it follows the hero once he has been forgotten. "It talks about our system," he says. "It's a sign for any nation, any society - how much they are prepared to care for a talent." (See pictures about the business of Bollywood...
...down to a shelter in downtown, but it was bad - heroin, crack, smells. Randy looked at me and said, 'Dad, get me out of here. It's spooky.' Now I am trying to get assistance to get into an apartment in San Pedro so Randy can get back in school." PATH outreach workers are talking to Barker about his possible eligibility for federal assistance with rent and utilities under the new federal homelessness-prevention program. (See how the new federal homelessness-prevention program works...
...hole," Barker says as he stands in a crowded one-bedroom apartment that has seen better days. On his cousin's cluttered coffee table sits a worn yellow briefcase covered with union stickers; it's stuffed with unemployment forms, birth certificates, old utility bills and school application papers for Randy, a skinny 12-year-old who loves basketball. (Is 1 in 50 American kids homeless...