If you saw the documentary, KB, you will have noticed the home conditions of most of these girls. Not only that but in South Africa each child- poor or rich - has to pay to attend school. Unless someone were able to make SA change its policy just building another school wouldn't really change anything. And if you noticed, these children *were* already attending school.

So, no. Given the reality, I don't think your suggestion is valid.

Of these first 152 children, let's suppose that 90 of them finish the course. Oprah has promised to send any and all of them to college "anywhere in the world they wish", so let's suppose that 30 of them get higher education.

Let's suppose that of those 30, five of them become tremendous forces for change, for justice, for opportunity, for growth in their homeland... Think of the people they will influence, the children they will nurture, through all the years to come. These children are currently from 7th grade to 11th- they have a long time to live.

And the likelihood of success is much greater than the odds I postulated.