Primary Education Topic:
Policy and Advocacy
Other Education Topics:
Technology, Accessibility & Transportation
Mental Health & Aging
Multicultural Aging
Healthcare & Aging
There are many reasons why we should not limit our perspective and interest to the developed world. With each technological innovation making the entire world accessible in real time, the opportunity to become world citizens is hard to ignore.
By Jeanette Takamura
Early each morning, thousands of children walk barefoot for as many as two hours along Ugandan roadways on their way to school. The same long trek is made home at day’s end, often in darkness. The children are tiny by U.S. standards, from malnutrition. And all too often they are orphans, cared for by grandparents whose children died from HIV/AIDS.