To the first question, the 10 year old tells us for one thing that she has long hair. To the second that she wants to become a model, and to the third that she wants the future world to have clean air, flowers, birds, trees, and that she wants to live in a nice house.

At KHouse Semear (Fortaleza, Brazil ), they pair street kids who cannot read and write with those who can when working with Who-Am-I? This educational program basically trains kids in the act of getting new friends through the Internet.

During the program, kids exchange views with peers in other countries on personal matters. In the process, and particularly when receiving mails, illiterate kids in the two-person teams are very motivated to fully understand what the others have written. This situation promotes the unique phenomena of "learning by doing". The literacy process is automatically realized. "Exciting-learning-without-pain."

The idea is not to teach illiterate kids to write, but motivate them to learn. In the two-person "email-teams," they want to ensure that what is being written also represents them and their opinions. When a kid requires to learn how to write some specific thing, they are shown just what he or she wants. Nothing more. - In most Brazilian KHouses, we work with kids where literacy is low, or non existant.

Omar Fuksman (Uruguay ), reports from his work using Who-Am-I? with kids who have no idea about computers, reading, and writing:

"It is almost like a religion that students have to establish an email communication immediately with other students. It took a lot of time to make them learn how to answer. We spent hours looking at what others had written. Analyzing and comparing. I am very happy with the enormous success we have had. We have receive congratulations from the school's teachers, social worker, school director and from the school supervisor, who came to visit and see what the kids were doing."

Click here to learn how they do it in Mexico City .