A long, long time ago when I went to work as a journalist in northern Canada, I was fascinated by kids and day care centres. A colleague once joked that we should rename the paper “cute kids of the north”, as I recall.

So when I saw this video from Wallah We Can, which means ‘Yes we can’ in the Tunisian language, I was enthralled. These are students at an unusual public boarding school attended by 570 students in Makthar, Tunisia. It is one of the projects run by the group Wallah We Can to support children and youth in that country, whose once proud educational system is in sad shape.