If you haven't seen The First Grader, I highly recommend it.
The People in Mission interns gathered to watch it tonight, and we were amazed by the true story.
When the Kenyan government promised free primary education in the early 2000s, an 84 year old man named Maruge attempted to attend his local primary school in a remote mountain village in the Kenyan bush. The movie follows his struggles and triumphs, and truly shows the power of education.
The movie was filmed in Kenya and the children and majority of the people in the movie are not actors, but rather locals who actually live and work in the small village where the movie was shot. The children in the classrooms are real students from the schools used for the film, and they had never even seen a movie before.
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