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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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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Like many poor Africans, Muhammed Serif Diallo left his family and village behind him and set off without a visa in search of a better life in a richer country.
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MUHURA, Rwanda  - Ange Mukarusagara never thought she would get the chance to use a computer at school.
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It looks as if the Material Girl isn't going to be leaving this   material world anytime soon.
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&quot;Walking around here, you get the sense that this is not a country like France -- it's a poor country,&quot; says Cynthia, a French teenager among the dozens who have been sent to Senegal under a groundbreaking community service program to aid troubled youths.
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KGAUTSWANE, South Africa  - Lucy Mhlapo had noticed people in the nearby town chattering into tiny metal boxes pressed to their ears, but she never dreamed she'd use one of the devices herself.
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Madeleine had nearly finished primary school when she was forced to join the Mai-Mai militia group as a soldier in the Democratic Republic of Congo -- she was 11-years-old.
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PETAH TIKVA, Israel  - She escaped the Holocaust at age six by hiding from the Nazis under a pile of dead bodies in her Ukrainian village.
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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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By Bao Ong, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  Jun. 17--MENDOTA HEIGHTS -- Jennifer Christensen's dream to navigate celestial bodies of the final frontier is far-fetched for a suburban teacher.
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Shamila Kohestani, the captain of the Afghanistan national womenâs soccer team who was deprived an education for much of her childhood, is now growing as a student in America.
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EDITOR&#39;S NOTE: Michal McDowell is a sophomore at the International High School of Indiana. Last summer, she traveled to South Africa with her mother, Jennifer Drobac, a board member
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YAEDA VALLEY, Tanzania -- One of the last remaining tribes of hunter-gatherers on the planet is on the verge of vanishing into the modern world.
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In much of Africa, the traditionally low status of girls puts many of them in danger and protects attackers.
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BWEFUM, Tanzania, Feb. 18 -- Not all that long ago, Mininyi Othman showed up at his clinic in this tiny village each morning to find a row of feverish people waiting on the bench outside. Malaria was ravaging his community. Now he has so few patients, his clinic was empty on Monday afternoon and he...
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KAKUMA, Kenya -- They had learned how to buy bus tokens and clip coupons. Gotten hands-on training for lighting a gas stove and flushing a toilet. Taken a pop quiz on women's rights.