Fight to Learn: The Struggle to Go to School

by Laura Scandiffio

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In many countries around the world, universal access to education is a seemingly unattainable dream; however, determined individuals with vision and drive have made this dream come true for many. This book highlights people such as Okello, a former child soldier in Uganda, who founded a school for children like himself whose education was derailed by war; Julia Bolton Holloway who realized that the only effective way to educate Roma children was to teach literacy to their parents at the same time; Shannen Koostachin, a passionate 13-year-old whose fight for the right of First Nations children to have proper...Read more
  • ISBN13 9781554517978
  • Publish Date 24 November 2016 (first published 27 October 2016)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country CA
  • Imprint Annick Press Ltd
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 176
  • Language English