Imagine a child, nine years old, who has never once held a pencil or opened a book. Not because she doesn’t want to learn, but because poverty or conflict or displacement slammed the schoolhouse door before she ever reached it. Across Africa, that is the reality for 80 million children. And once they fall behind, most education systems simply move on without them.
My next guest refused to accept that.
Denver: Welcome back to The Business of Giving, Caitlin.
Caitlin: Thank you so much for having me, Denver. It’s a pleasure to be here.
“…my real discovery that really led to the impetus to start Luminos was the realization that there’s still far too many children in the world who don’t even get the chance to grab onto that first rung of the educational ladder.”