For an introduction to the film go to www.theartofwalkingbarefoot.com. The film will be called “The Art of Walking Barefoot.” The title is meant to reflect three elements of life for children on the ...

Some of them are buried in books, listening intently to their teacher. While the other children grip a bat and ball, a few chase each other in a game of hide and seek. It is an unusual sight in Old ...

A dozen children crowd around plastic tables in the Majidun neighborhood of Lagos. Intently focused on plastic mats printed with chess boards, the children thoughtfully move pieces on the board as ...

BANGKOK (AP) — The estranged son of Thailand’s King Maha Vajiralongkorn visited a daycare center for underprivileged children in Bangkok on Tuesday following a surprise return to the country after 27 ...

Hazeena looked pale and hungry when she came to a kindergarten managed by Catholic nuns in a southern Indian state. A few months earlier, the 7-year-old girl was seen helping her parents in the ...

AXA Mansard Health has offered free health insurance to 100 children from the Chess in Slum community. According to the underwriter, the gesture is to demonstrate its belief that quality healthcare ...

It was an overcrowded school in a metropolitan slum neighborhood where I first began to teach, and an incident of those days has always stuck in my memory. Six hundred children were in the auditorium ...

Medplus Pharmacy at Chess in Slums in Oshodi under bridge. Chess in Slums Africa is a social development initiative that helps children find life changing opportunities by teaching and unlocking the ...

From Connecticut to Kenya, fundraising is changing lives. It started when a local veteran made a trip to the African country in December. Now one act of kindness has evolved, and has the potential to ...

When little Fanuel Ochieng moved to Kibera slums two years ago, his life was in disarray. His father was ill and bed-ridden. He had no relative upcountry to take care of him. His father was then ...

The decision to teach, the teacher admits with irony, “was forced on me by the very urgent need to eat.” For two embittering years after World War II, Edward Ricardo Braithwaite, sometime R.A.F.