This picture of a 9-year-old homeless Filipino boy trying to do assignments in the road, beneath the dim light of a close by McDonald’s, has caused global donations.
“We’re overjoyed, I don’t know what I will do with all of these blessings.” Said his stunned mother Christina Espinosa, a grocery store worker who makes less than $2 a day.
The picture on this pupil, Daniel Cabrera, went viral soon after a passerby published his photo on Facebook last month. The picture was shared almost 7,000 times. The family had got schoolbooks, clothes, a reading table lamp and a scholarship fund.
Homeless Filipino boy
She described her son as “studious” and motivated to get the advanced degree.
Espinosa said, “He would insist on going to school even without his lunch money because I have no money to give.”
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The lady, Joyce Torrefranca, who published the picture, is touched that the photo made a real difference.
Posted by Philippines Travel Site
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