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Going to school in the desert. In the Sahara Desert boys and girls with books under their arms are not seen swinging along to little red brick school houses. American school children would look with wonder at their wooden slates carved deeply with verses from the Koran while they sat in some "al fresco" spot smoking cigarettes and chanting the age-old teachings of Mahomet to a sleepy master. They would wonder too if blindness was a physical characteristic but would find that the enormous percentage of children are so afflicted from the unsanitary conditions prevailing in this part of the world. The Junior Red Cross of America is preparing to educate and help some of these unfortunate children and has not forgotten to include them in its "World Service" program

Going to school in the desert. In the Sahara Desert boys and girls wit...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC Paris Office. Data: Jr. Red Cross, T.T. & C., R.C. Bulletin. Group title: Chi... More

The youngest actor A movie star at eight years of age is the record of this little Arabian girl of Toggourt, Algeria. She was one of the actors in the American Red Cross film, "The children of the Sahara," which has just been completed in this desert country for the benefit of American school-children / / Photo by Capt. Merl LaVoy (Seattle).

The youngest actor A movie star at eight years of age is the record of...

Photograph shows girl in traditional dress. No. RC-924. Forms part of: American National Red Cross photograph collection.

The youngest actor A movie star at eight years of age is the record of this little Arabian girl of Toggourt, Algeria. She was one of the actors in the American Red Cross film, "The children of the Sahara," which has just been completed in this desert country for the benefit of American school-children / / Photo by Capt. Merl LaVoy (Seattle).

The youngest actor A movie star at eight years of age is the record of...

Photograph shows girl in traditional dress. No. RC-924. Forms part of: American National Red Cross photograph collection.