The youngest Headmaster in the World


	The youngest Headmaster in the World

Antara

10-13-2009 4:23 AM

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the universal hunger for learning, gates of vienna, education, love, charity, faith, real hope

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Meet 16 year old Babar Ali : worth a trip to source to watch the video

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10-13-2009 4:27 AM

Antara

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.

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This is <A href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8299780.stm" target="_blank">a remarkable story</A> from among the poorest of the poor in West Bengal:</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2009/10/universal-hunger-for-learning.html"><DIV>Babar Ali’s day starts early. He wakes, pitches-in with the household chores, then jumps on an auto-rickshaw which takes him part of the 10km (six mile) ride to the Raj Govinda school. The last couple of kilometres he has to walk.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2009/10/universal-hunger-for-learning.html"><DIV>The minute his lessons are over at Raj Govinda school, Babar Ali doesn’t stop to play, he heads off to share what he’s learnt with other children from his village.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2009/10/universal-hunger-for-learning.html"><DIV>At four o’clock every afternoon after Babar Ali gets back to his family home a bell summons children to his house. 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