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GWEN IFILL (Newshour): Bringing opportunity to a vast hidden population of aboriginal children in India.
Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro visited one school that is trying to break the cycle of poverty on a massive scale.
His report was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and is part of our series Agents for Change.
FRED DE SAM LAZARO (Newshour): The 18,000 students at the Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences, only half of them were gathered in this assembly, have two things in common. They come from India's so-called tribal communities, and they're extremely poor.
The school offers grades one through 12, and is an ambitious attempt to transform their lives, the brainchild of Achyuta Samanta, a 47-year-old entrepreneur.
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