Education is literally the difference between success and failure, or even life and death for many children.

The music teacher thought I sang like a goat. It was kind of devastating. A few months after that, I participated in a music contest and won. I took my little trophy to school and rubbed it in his nose. I said to him, "What do you say now?"

We know that many boys and girls leave school because of poverty, because they have to work. However, there are an important number of children who abandon their studies because of the abuses they're subject to by teachers and their own parents.

The first years of a child's life are too important for a child's future - their development, earnings, behavior, and health - for anyone to ignore.

Because of you, I'm running out of reasons to cry.

I consider myself a laborer, building my career brick over brick under the sun.

I'm not a trained dancer, but I grew up in a culture that revolves around dance.