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This Video Nails How Horrifying The Weight Of Student Debt Can Be

There has to be a better way to pay for college.
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More than 40 million Americans are drowning in one trillion dollars of student debt ― a fact that has been widely reported. Not so well understood is how students ended up owing so much or how we can get out of this crisis.

A new “We The Voters” video breaks down some of the history behind the college loan crisis through an animated game show called “Student Debt Roulette.” Check it out above.

This video is part of We the Voters, a groundbreaking social impact campaign designed to inspire and activate millions of young Americans through 20 viral films hosted by actors and influencers. The project incorporates real characters and dynamic story lines to demystify how the government and elections work and to motivate Americans to seize their power by voting this year. For more information, and to see the rest of the films, visit WetheVoters.com.

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Empowering women through agriculture and education
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Natana Kisemei holds her youngest daughter, Sein, whose future looks brighter thanks to her mother’s education in farming techniques that grow healthy produce in previously unproductive dry regions. A former child bride, Kisemei joined a program run by Free The Children and sponsored by Canada’s PotashCorp. to learn about kitchen gardens, raising hens and growing crops. Now she feeds her children nutritious meals and sells excess produce to pay for their school fees and supplies—feeding a new cycle of empowerment that gives hope amidst fears of a coming population boom in Africa.
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Natana and Sein harvest leafy green kale from a polyethylene sack that minimizes the soil and water required to grow healthy produce in Kenya’s drought-prone Rift Valley. This simple “multi-storey garden” empowers families to cultivate their own food and diversify their diet. Seedlings are transplanted into the bags packed with earth, and irrigated using recycled water. The vegetables then sprout from holes poked in the sides of the bags and are harvested as often as three times a week for nutritious salads and stews.
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Women are given chickens to raise for their eggs, which they sell at market to buy more chickens, sheep and goats to supplement their family income. Their financial contribution gives them greater clout in their household, which makes it more likely their children will go to school and less likely that their daughters will be forced to marry early.
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Capturing and storing rain water allows women in dry regions to irrigate family gardens, leading to frequent bumper crops of carrots and other vegetables.
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African farm yields are less than half as productive as those in other regions of the world—a challenge that actually represents tremendous potential. With proper care and irrigation, land that was once considered unworkable can produce huge heads of cabbage!
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Kale is a favourite crop in the Rift Valley—fast-growing and packed with minerals and vitamins.
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Simple plastic greenhouses allow efficient, healthy harvests year-round.
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School gardens teach new farming possibilities and also supply healthy produce for lunch programs that allow students to concentrate on their studies instead of their hunger.
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