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 change that. In the first report in the BBC’s Hunger to Learn series, Damian Grammaticas meets Babar Ali, whose remarkable education project is transforming the lives of hundreds of poor children.
At 16 years old, Babar Ali must be the youngest headmaster in the world. He’s a teenager who is in charge of teaching hundreds of students in his family’s backyard, where he runs classes for poor children from his village.
This is a magnificent story!
Let’s pray that we may have a similar generosity to share what we have with those in greater need–even when the world would regard what we have as trifling.
If I recall correctly, Laura Ingalls Wilder was a teacher a 16, too, but she did not have a school of [i]hundreds[/i].