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[S1 - E4] First woman on the moon ?

10/11/19 • 4 min

A teacher once asked her class to picture themselves in the job they wanted to do when they grew up. Jessica Meir drew an astronaut standing on the Moon. She was 5. Today, she is on the International Space Station.

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[S1 - E3] Banking on children

Adults used to laugh at Jose Adolfo. They hung up the phone or said a child should leave such matters to grown-ups.
They’re not laughing at him now. Jose Adolfo is still just 14 but for seven years he has run his own bank and rubbish recycling scheme in Peru. Now he stars in a French film. It came out in cinemas last week and its message, he says, is this: “You may not know it yet, but we children are saving the world”.

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Many young people in Syria and Iraq live in difficult times. In the news this week, you may see that there is more fighting there. But this is a story of how some of them refused to put up with people telling them what to think and making it hard for them to learn.

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