Endgame
Endgame is not only about a remarkable moment in history ? the end of apartheid in South Africa ? it carries an important message for young people today: “peace is possible.”
Sunday, October 25, 2009 at 9pm on PBS
pbs.org/masterpiece/endgame
The youngest headmaster in the world
Put up with the commercial, then watch for an amazing 2 minutes and 47 seconds
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/8299780.stm>
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. The story of this young man from Murshidabad in West Bengal is a remarkable tale of the desire to learn amid the direst poverty.
Cotton Quilts Edi 
I love Masterpiece Theatre! And Chiwetel…and I just saw that piece on Babar the other night–what an amazing young man–and they said since his story aired last week, more than 2000 people emailed the BBC offering help to build a real school for his students!
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I watched the piece about Babar Ali and thought about how much we have in abundance…what do we do with it?
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Babar Ali is an inspiration. You’re right Edi, we have all this abundance and yet what do we do with it? This just makes me want to do so much more…you know.
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