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I saw this article today and it blew me away: The Youngest Headmaster in the World

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 to 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.

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.

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This story is amazing because a child made it his mission to help other children, by giving them the free gift of education. What I also find amazing are the children who are hungry and eager to learn – many of these children work during the day as servants to help their families survive, and then go to Babar’s school after their work is done. These children have dreams and hopes and goals. They believe that they can have a future. And all because of one boy and his desire to make a difference.

Babar Ali's "school" has some 800 students