In Tanzania, a Maasai girl escapes to education
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ARUSHA, Tanzania  - At 12, brown-eyed Neema Laizer persuaded her elementary school teacher to accept one liter of milk each morning instead of money because her father refused to pay for a girl to be educated.
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She pulled tattered socks over her bony legs and stared at the ground, trying to hide the dirty, torn clothing she is so embarrassed to wear. Before a militia drove her African tribe off its farmland in western Sudan, before she had to wait ...
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A 6-year-old Palestinian girl may be about to experience at first hand the gulf between care of spinal injuries in the rich world and developing countries.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla., Sept. 21  /PRNewswire/ -- Stella Felix of Nigeria on Saturday becomes the first high school student from Africa to experience the exhilaration of zero gravity on a parabolic flight from the NASA Kennedy Space Center (KSC).
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Ever wonder where America's yellow school buses go to die? Some don't &#151; they find a second life on Central Africa's rutted, traffic-choked roads.
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ZHUANGZITOU, China  - Xiao Wei's family is struggling to ensure their little girl will have more than a primary education, but in the villages of northwestern China, the odds are stacked against her.
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When Lauren Pool, a 2005 graduate of the University of Virginia, returned to Northern Virginia last summer following a job teaching English in Brazil, she knew she wasn't ready to restart her teaching career right away.
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LAGOS, Nigeria -- Seventeen-year-old Stella Felix rises at 5 a.m. to do chores and then walks nearly an hour to school. She has to share textbooks with schoolmates because her parents can't afford to buy them, and she does homework by candlelight.
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OURE CASSONI, Chad - Before the Janjaweed militia drove Armani Tinjany and her tribe off their farmland in western Sudan, before she had to wait in line for food rations in this refugee camp in the desert, she was a high school agriculture ...
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MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan  - The lilt of a girl   singing of homecoming blends pleasantly with a cacophony of   different melodies from keyboard, guitar and drums in a music   school in northern Afghanistan.
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In Mississippi, M.J. Etua helps students look outside their own world as they participate in a competition against better-funded programs.
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When Lola Moore thinks back to the day her daughter and two dozen of her classmates said their goodbyes as they prepared to leave for a trip to Ghana, one moment is especially haunting. "The last thing the chaperones said was, `Don't worry &#151; we'll take good care of her,'" Moore recalled Friday as she fought back tears. "And she was the only one who didn't come home."
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Girl in photograph is from local Moroccan family.
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A new school in the Masai village of Oloolaimutia in East Africa runs day and night now, even though the majestic tribe lives without electricity or running water in its nearby compound of mud houses. More than 400 children attend the school, which uses solar panels to provide light and deliver power to three new laptop computers.
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When 12-year-old Faten Ben Debaieb returned to school after summer vacation, she faced a painful choice: take off her head scarf or be expelled.
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METSIAMANONG, Botswana -- When Dahame Belese left the land of his ancestors, his parents felt as though he had fallen off the edge of the universe. They had no idea of the world outside, had never traveled by car or bicycle. They had not even climbed on a donkey's back.
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There was a moment when Vika Kallagova could have fled the hellish maelstrom of bullets, screams and explosions that School No. 1 had become on the first day of September. But the 13-year-old chose not to.