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The brutal truth is, if we don't have the will or the skill, or even the money that we need to reach children, the most vulnerable children in the world, with something as simple as an oral polio vaccine, then pretty soon, more than 200,000 children are again going to be paralyzed by this disease every single year.
These are children like Umar.
It leaves their children paralyzed, and it drags their families deeper into poverty, because they're desperately searching and they're desperately spending the little bit of savings that they have, trying in vain to find a cure for their children.
We think children deserve better.
And so when the going got really tough in the polio eradication program about two years ago, when people were saying, "We should call it off," the Polio Partnership decided to buckle down once again and try and find innovative new solutions, new ways to get to the children that we were missing again and again.
In northern India, we started mapping the cases using satellite imaging like this, so that we could guide our investments and vaccinator shelters, so we could get to the millions of children on the Koshi River basin where there are no other health services.
This is the kind of commitment now we're seeing to try and reach all of the children we've been missing.
And it started rolling off the production lines and into the mouths of children around the world.
In Umar's home country of Nigeria, a 95 percent reduction in the number of children paralyzed by polio last year.
And as long as any child anywhere is paralyzed by this virus, it's a stark reminder that we are failing, as a society, to reach children with the most basic of services.
The huge social movement that's been involved in polio eradication is ready to do way more for these children.
That's what it costs to reach 500 million children.
You heard that occasionally children are born with tails, and it's because it's an ancestral characteristic.
Three years and two children later, we raised this 50,000-square-foot lace net.
Sadly, sometimes there are even children who are trying to get reunited with their parents that they haven't seen, in some cases, for a decade.
You can imagine how startling then it is when you have children who are born who are two people inside of one body.
She supported the education of scores of children and invited many to live with us in our home in order to access schools.
We as children would stand alongside the adults and give our contributions of money, and our names were inscripted in the community book just like every adult.
Our parents, when they brought in other children to live with us, they didn't ask our permission.
You know, what I do is write for children, and I'm probably America's most widely read children's author, in fact.
Our children are becoming depressed at an alarming rate.
The global perspective is that up to 30 percent of children in school have learning weaknesses that are not self-correcting, but with appropriate treatment, they can be screened for and detected and corrected and avoid their academic failure.
And without realizing it, I had stumbled upon a key to helping children read.
Instead of fixating on skills and moving students from one reading level to another, or forcing struggling readers to memorize lists of unfamiliar words, we should be asking ourselves this question: How can we inspire children to identify as readers?
The more challenges to reading children face, the more culturally competent educators need to be.
As a society, we're creating reading experiences for children that are the equivalent of telling bar jokes in a church.
And then we wonder why so many children don't read.
Many of the children's books promoted to black boys focus on serious topics, like slavery, civil rights and biographies.
This identity-based reading program uses a curated list of children's books recommended by black boys.
Scholastic's 2016 Kids and Family Report found that the number one thing children look for when choosing a book is a book that will make them laugh.
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