Somewhere in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta, out-of-school kids are learning to read and write in the streets through pushcart classrooms– the same unique learning platform that CNN Hero of the ...

MANILA, Philippines - CNN hero of the year Efren Peñaflorida’s “pushcart classroom,” which provides free education to out-of-school youth, has come a long way. A new two-story school building donated ...

On January 28 the Department of Education (DepEd), in partnership with Dynamic Teen Co. (DTC), “relaunched” the Kariton Klasrum program to bring and replicate this to more sites in National Capital ...

MORE than 1,200 street children have completed the latest edition of the Kariton Klasrum program spearheaded by the Department of Education. At graduation ceremonies held on Thursday, Education ...

MANILA, Philippines - More than 100 mobile classrooms known as kariton klasrums will be deployed in Metro Manila, Cavite and Tacloban City for the benefit of street children and other out-of-school ...

Manila: Building on the success of pushcart classrooms that won acclaim from CNN in 2009, government agencies have now come up with innovative aids to bring education to more indigent Filipinos.

Brother Efren is easy to find. Trace the curve of Manila Bay south, past the skyscrapers, through the urban sprawl. Inch across a jammed highway flanked by fishing huts on flamingo stilts. From there, ...

The simple heroism of Filipino Efren Peñaflorida and Filipino-American Robin Lim was once again in the limelight during the recent “CNN Superhero” poll to mark the 10th year of the yearly tribute.

President Rodrigo Duterte wants to appoint CNN hero Efren Peñaflorida Jr. as the next chairman of the Presidential Commission for the Urban Poor, presidential spokesperson Harry Roque announced ...

Brother Efren is easy to find. Trace the curve of Manila Bay south, past the skyscrapers, through the urban sprawl. Inch across a jammed highway flanked by fishing huts on flamingo stilts. From there, ...