Growing Up Global

The children in this video are all unique. These children were born in 1992 during the Earth Summit held in Rio, Brazil. They are now being interviewed, ten years later, just as world leaders are preparing for the Rio+10 follow-up summit. Bruno Sorrentino has been filming these children and their families to see if the promises made during the first summit have been kept. In the video, we see the children, now ten years old, having …

…child who grew up in a rural area. Another issue that would affect Kay Kay would be a change in the gender gap. It is very unheard of in China for young girls to finish school. It is almost always the boys of the family who receive an education so they can go off to work. It would greatly help her in life if she were able to complete school and get a good education.