Your Mark On The World

#315: Student Venture Seeks To Remake Slums To Support Education

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October 22, 2015 - Read the full Your Mark on the World article and watch the interview here: http://bit.ly/1NnSszg. Subscribe to this podcast on iTunes by clicking here: http://bit.ly/ymotwitunes or on Stitcher by clicking here: http://bit.ly/ymotwstitcher. “One hundred and twelve million children lack access to high-quality, reliable, affordable early childhood education [ECE]. It’s a fundamental injustice that caps their potential and robs children of the futures they deserve,” says SOMOS Managing Director, Anne Friedman. SOMOS was recently recognized as a Hult Prize finalist at the Clinton Global Initiative. Anne explains further, “Children who don’t receive high quality ECE in the first 5 years of life suffer from depressed educational and health outcomes, starting school about 2 years behind and never catching up. Even family stability decades later is affected by the education a young child receives. The problem is that potential is distributed equally but opportunity is not. Millions of children b