16-01 The Issues
The massive numbers of young people receiving university education in the future will be Indian and Chinese. This will change the world. Naturally children are our future. And in trying to examine this future, it is smart to determine where children are born and the degree to which they are being educated.So, let’s be a…
16-02 Poverty
Kids living on the streets. Kids without schooling. It means kids in gangs and living on drugs. There are some things you see when you travel that you never forget. Insight into how communities and families treat children and child poverty is one of them.How about children selling one cigarette at a time in Bogota,…
16-03 Health
Our school shut down during the measles epidemic. Now we vaccinate 200 million kids per year. Those bunk beds were a great memory as a child. I slept on the upper for three years when we lived in a small bungalow during the early years of WW2. And my brother slept down below. It was…
16-04 Slavery
It’s a form of slavery when families send children out to work. Maria was an alteration tailor that worked for my father for 20 years. I got to know her story during the summer of 1950 when I was an unskilled “jack of all trades” working in the family tailoring business. I was seventeen. She…