The Boys of Baraka

The documentary follows boys living in Baltimore. The boys are twelve years old. Violence is common in the neighbourhood where they live. Conditions at their schools are hard as well. An education programme opens another road for them. The programme sends the boys to Kenya. There is a boarding school there in the countryside. The school was set up for these boys. The programme is to run for two years. The documentary follows four of them closely. The boys learn to live away from their families. They make progress in their lessons. The programme is stopped before the second year comes. The security situation in Kenya is the reason. The boys go back to Baltimore. Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady directed the eighty four minute documentary. It is a Kenyan and American production finished in 2005.