Senegal: Better life for beggar boys

A low hum rises from a row of rough wooden shacks in the winding, sand-covered back streets of the Fass neighbourhood in Senegal's seaside capital, Dakar. More than 30 children, known as "talibe", sit on the dirty concrete floor of a daara, or religious school, chanting verses from the Koran in Arabic. These children are lucky -- they have been spared the worst abuses of a centuries-old system of religious education that some say has been perverted.