Imagine Maryam Habibi’s frustration. She has all the ability she needs to become a journalist, but not the means of using it.

We have endured unemployment in our country, but not the suffering of children in Afghanistan. The class should think of a job they would like to do when they are grown up: what will they need, what qualifications, what equipment, what experience? And how would they feel if they had no chance of fulfilling their aspirations, not for want of talent or willingness to work hard, but because the opportunity to receive education and training was not available?

Another matter to consider is what it must be like to be a refugee, as the story is set in a camp. In some of our schools there will be pupils who have experienced this at first hand, so it is a sensitive matter. What would you do if you were suddenly thrown out of your home? Go to relatives (but suppose they were in the same situation)? Leave the UK and start a fresh life elsewhere? Another country might not let you in, particularly if you had no skills to offer them; what might that mean, in practice?

There is the important issue of morality when people are really poor. Maryam Habibi steals the reporter’s notebook. Would you do the same thing? The reporter won’t miss a cheap notebook, but is it still wrong to take it?

Finally there is the difficult question of whether we can do anything to help young people like Maryam. If poor countries are to become better off, education and training are vital. What could we provide through the Children Helping Children campaign?

Blackboards, chalk, paper, pens and pencils are relatively cheap. What about computers (no proper toilets in the refugee camp, let alone electricity)? Wind-up radios, with educational programmes in the native language, or centres where children could go to use educational technology?