Actress Michelle Collins visited Brazil as an ambassador for Oxfam's Education Now campaign. She met children in Recife who are trying to make a new life for themselves away from the streets and the culture of drugs and violence.
Education is the single most important weapon against poverty.
It saves lives and gives people a voice. You can hear Chemjor tell his story in this video clip . Or read a transcript of the video. Tanzania case study Primary education was once free in Tanzania, but debt has starved schools of funding. Making a difference Lisa Potts, the Wolverhampton nursery school teacher who saved her pupils from a savage knife attack in 1996, visited Vietnam as an ambassador for the Education Now campaign.