He ain't heavy, he's my...oh, wait. He is kinda heavy.

A lot of us take for granted our ability to bend down and tie our shoes. It's easy for us to fit in the backseat of most cars when necessary. We can find clothes in our size at most stores. But there are literally an estimated 42 million children worldwide who don't have that luxury.

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Spotlight: Pennies for Peace

We take it for granted that the people we interact with on a daily basis will be able to communicate with us clearly and easily. Reading signs, writing emails, understanding directions…these are things that each of us does and expects others to be able to do. And in the Western world, most of us are lucky enough to have received a level of education that allows us to function easily in this way. But what if we’d grown up somewhere else? Somewhere where education isn’t standardized to any extent, or where school was thought of as a possibility instead of a necessity?

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