Every year more than 10 million children die because they are poor – that’s 28,000 a day, 1,150 an hour, 20 every minute or one child every 5 seconds.
‘Storybook’ is about putting a human face to these staggering statistics. Four celebrity presenters travel to four different countries to see what life is like for children living there. This week Lucia Evans travels to Burkina Faso to see how young girls survive in a male dominated society.
This is television at its most personal and moving. It will also inform and educate people about children’s lives in poor countries.
This series is about raising awareness about the real challenges that children face everyday in developing countries. It is about bringing an Irish audience right into the life of a child who is dealing with what is for us unimaginable but in reality is very common. We see their lives – the various day-to-day struggles they face – from the mundane to the most unimaginable horrors – all part of their routine but a serious abrogation of their rights as children
‘Storybook’ tells the story of one specific child. Lucia Evans befriends a young girl in Burkina Faso called Bitou, struggling to make do in a country where girls are always second class.