Iran's tiny Kalou village is being laid in honor of its elementary school, now recognized by UNESCO as the world's smallest. Kalou is a tiny village situated 180 kilometers from Bushehr in the south of Iran. Its population is made up of 34 people - seven families.

Kalou's school has four students; two boys and two girls, taught by their enthusiastic teacher Abdol-Mohammad Sha'raani. It was Sha'raani who introduced the school to the world through his Web-log. Now the school is internationally recognized.

When asked how the school was introduced to UNESCO, Sha'raani said an Iranian friend living in Australia created an English version of his blog for him. Soon after, a reader sent a link to UNESCO which then recognized the school as the smallest in the world.

Sha'raani is very proud of his charges, Parisa, Mahdi, Hamideh and and Hossein who study together at the same time, although they are in different grades. The students have one computer among them, that was sent to them by the ministry of education after seeing pictures of their wish lists, one of which was a computer. They have access to the Internet and Sha'raani tries to incorporate computer studies into the curriculum.

Source: PressTV