The Price of Poverty: 12 Global Playgrounds Every Child Should Leave Behind
Children around the world, in cities from Jakarta to Mumbai and beyond, frolic every day in conditions that would have U.S. parents rushing their kids to local trauma centers for emergency disinfection.
Poverty, obviously, is the scourge infusing the childhoods in these photos, and we can all agree that education is key to relieving these dire conditions of impoverishment.
So click on the action button below, and get these kids into school—where they belong.
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