The Boys of Baraka (2005) on Netflix
R20051h 24mDocumentary
In Baltimore, drug dealers, addiction and an overwhelmed school system stand between boys and a diploma. Twenty twelve-year-olds travel 10,000 miles to the Baraka School in rural Kenya.
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Twenty boys from Baltimore, twelve years old, travel 10,000 miles to the Baraka School, an experimental school in rural northern Kenya, for seventh and eighth grade. The Abell Foundation founded the school in 1996; its name means blessing in Kiswahili. There is no television, no Game Boys and no fast food, and one teacher for every five students. In Baltimore, drug dealers, addiction and a school system in chaos stand in the boys' way, and many do not graduate. Four boys are the focus: Devon Brown, Montrey Moore, Richard Keyser Jr. and his younger brother, Romesh Vance.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Boys of Baraka (2005)
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- The Baraka School was founded by the private Abell Foundation in 1996 and named for "baraka", the Kiswahili word for blessing; it gave at-risk African American boys from Baltimore a five-to-one student-teacher ratio, the kind of educational attention normally reserved for better-heeled private schools.
