It’s just so awesome to know that grass-roots efforts to effect social change are being given attention by the mainstream media. It certainly does a lot of help to such efforts.
One particular effort is by Efren Peñaflorida who has made it to the finals of the 2009 CNN Heroes. He leads the The Dynamic Teen Company which is a group of volunteers that has been teaching basic reading and writing to children who live in slum areas in the Philippines using the pushcart classroom or “kariton klasrum”.
He needs all the help we fellow Filipinos can provide. Head over to the 2009 CNN Heroes page and vote for him.
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Julius aka "Jhay" Rocas has been blogging since 2006. He is a certified geek. New Media publisher/Professional blogger and Internet ninja. Youth activist. He blogs about tech news, gadgets and social commentary. 
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four more days 'til voting period ends! for an easier multiple voting, better to power vote at this sites:
http://www.dynamicteencompany.org/powervote http://www.ironnie.com/supportsefren
be pruod to be filipino!!!!!!!!!!!!!vote now
when will the voting end? i think i have voted a number of times already.
btw, kudos to his ideas.
not to sound “clannish” but it might interest you more to know that kuya ef and the dtc is based in cavite city… go cavitenos!
Cavitenos are really something! We almost met him and his group here at DLSUD, but the typhoons have disrupted everything. Hopefully, the meet and greet pushes through this second semester.
i heard from them earlier that they will be doing a school to school visit to ask school admins to support this week. im just not sure if they plan of going to DLSU-D.
Actually they were slated to visit DLSUD. The class suspensions just disrupted everything.