The Story of a Postal Parent
What happens when a charitable sponsor in Britain wants to actually meet the Third World child she's helping? This is what a London woman. Clare McCarthy , wanted to do. For three years, she had been sending a pound a week through a charity to sponsor the education of a little Indian boy. As the bond grew, she decided she had to fly to India - to see him and his village.
Journalist Dennis Shutte accompanied Clare on her long trek to rural Andra Pradesh , recording her graphic impressions of childhood poverty along the way. And what of the encounter ... what did sponsor and child make of each other face to face?
Writer and narrator
DENNIS SHUTTE
Producer GAYNOR TANZER