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 Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 5:33 am Post subject: Taking education to the poor |
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Efren Pe�aflorida, who started a "pushcart classroom" in the Philippines to bring education to poor children as an alternative to gang membership,
has been named the 2009 CNN Hero of the Year.
"Our planet is filled with heroes, young and old, rich and poor, man, woman of different colors, shapes and sizes. We are one great tapestry.
Each person has a hidden hero within, you just have to look inside you and search it in your heart, and be the hero to the next one in need.
So to each and every person inside this theater and for those who are watching at home, the hero in you is waiting to be unleashed.
Serve, serve well, serve others above yourself and be happy to serve. As I always tell to my co-volunteers ... you are the change that you dream,
as I am the change that I dream, and collectively we are the change that this world needs to be. Mabuhay!"
Pushcart educator named CNN Hero of the Year
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/11/16/cnnheroes.tribute.show/index.html
Taking education to the poor
http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2010/09/16/heroes.penaflorida.update.cnn?iref=allsearch |
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