Bringing school to the kids
Squatters, slums, and ghettos, whatever you call them they are found all over the world. When we pass by areas like these in our cars or buses, in our cities and neighborhoods we do exactly that, we pass them by. Efren Peñaflorida however saw something different.
At 16, Efren didn’t forget his beginnings by garbage-laden beaches as he gathered 3 other friends and began teaching children in slum areas in his home of Cavite, a province bordering the southern shore of Manila bay.
More than a decade later, Efren’s Dynamic Teen Company (DTC) has been supported by 10,000 volunteers, many of whom left the gangs and drugs that plague the Cavite slums.
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(Photo: Lilibeth Frondoso / CNN)