The two-hour travel documentary special "Chikyu Show Gakko" ("World Elementary School"; TBS, Mon., 9 p.m.) presents children living under difficult circumstances while "working toward their dreams" in various places throughout the world.
One of these subjects is a 12-year-old boy living in New Orleans, where, life post-Hurricane Katrina is still hard for some. The boy, who was abandoned early by his mother, was raised by a nonrelative who has fallen ill. In order to make her feel better, the boy is learning how to play an old trumpet that is one of her most prized possessions.
Another segment follows the efforts of a 9-year-old boy in Bangladesh to learn how to swim. Every year, about 70,000 children die in water-related accidents in Bangladesh, and the boy has been terrified of water ever since he almost drowned a year before.