Education and school
 This Powerpoint, comparing a day at school in Cambodia and the UK, will help children consider the similarities and differences between their lives and the lives of others. For more images about education around the world, visit our children's website Picture my World |
![Frida, 9, outside her house in Chumbivilcas province, Peru [Simon Rawles]](/var/storage/images/media_folder/cafod/images/international_images/latin_america_caribbean/peru/frida_outside_her_house/287764-1-eng-GB/frida_outside_her_house_1column00_08space_landscape.jpg) Powerpoint which enables your class to meet their contemporaries in Honduras, Sudan, the Philippines and Zambia, and compare their journeys to school |
![A girl stands in front of empty granaries at the village of Tangaba in northwestern Niger, where inhabitants ate leaves and grass to survive [Reuters/Finbarr O'Reilly, courtesy www.alertnet.org]](/var/storage/images/images/niger/empty_granaries/48735-3-eng-GB/empty_granaries_1column00_08space_landscape.jpg) Poverty stops children going to school (61.60 kB) Board game highlighting some of the issues which prevent children in the developing world getting a proper education. |
 Learning from the Victorians (104.37 kB) Before Victorian times very few children in England and Wales went to school. Poor children often had to work to help feed the family. The only schools for poor children were charity and church schools or ‘dame’ schools set up by unqualified teachers in their own homes |
