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"I don't really see the point in takling to these "High Risk" about traveling overseas or even universty. Home life is such that they are just dreams, there is no forseable was from getting from their present cirmstance to a position where they could save enough money for a plane ticket or year study.
To me a much better option would be to make them aware of the wider community (which it appears this course is doing)."

If you don't speak as if they have the opportunity to achieve these higher goals, then they won't. They won't consider it and will never do it. Yes, some of them won't, but some of them will. This is not just rhetoric. Educational research has shown that high expectations do yield results in the performance of students. Yes, there are other factors, but this was one of them.

I'll get off my soap box after one more comment... if no one ever believed in you and never told you what you might be able to do or become, where would you be? Most of us would have ended up somewhere worse off than we are now, or just following along in our parents footsteps because the expectations from others when we are growing up significantly alter what we expect of ourselves.