Across Africa and in over 100 impoverished nations worldwide, the most vulnerable children - AIDS orphans, girls and the poor - are denied access to education. The greatest obstacle between these children and a seat in the classroom and in turn their prospect of a better future is ‘the school fees that schools continue to impose'. So says Joanne Carter, Legislative Director of RESULTS, a grassroots advocacy organisation that lobbies the US government and other developed countries for a comprehensive response to the AIDS and poverty crisis in poor nations.