{"id":30849,"date":"2015-07-10T14:13:30","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T11:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acakuwait.wpengine.com\/?p=30849"},"modified":"2015-07-10T14:13:30","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T11:13:30","slug":"filipino-boy-receives-scholarship-after-photograph-of-him-studying-on-the-street-goes-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acakuw.com\/?p=30849","title":{"rendered":"Filipino boy receives scholarship after photograph of him studying on the street goes viral"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The photo showed Daniel Cabrera, 9, doing his homework on a wooden stool placed close to a McDonald’s window to catch the light from the store.<\/div>\n
A homeless Filipino boy has been overwhelmed with aid after a photograph of him studying on the pavement using faint light from a McDonald’s outlet went viral on the Internet. Nine-year-old Daniel Cabrera will fulfil his dream of becoming a policeman after donations of cash, school supplies and a college scholarship poured in, his mother, Christina Espinosa, told AFP news agency\u00a0on Friday<\/span><\/span>.<\/div>\n
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“We’re overjoyed. I don’t know what I will do with all of these blessings,” the stunned 42-year-old grocery store employee and domestic helper told AFP.<\/div>\n
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“Now, Daniel will not have to suffer just to finish his studies.”<\/div>\n
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The photo, posted on Facebook last month by a college student, showed Daniel doing his homework on a wooden stool placed close to a McDonald’s window to catch the light from the store.<\/div>\n
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The 20-year-old medical technology student, Joyce Torrefranca, captioned her Facebook post: “I got inspired by a kid.”<\/div>\n
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It was then shared close to 7,000 times on the social networking site and reported by local television.<\/div>\n
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Ms Espinosa and her three youngest children, including Daniel, have been living in her employer’s mini-grocery store since their shanty home was gutted by fire five years ago.<\/div>\n
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The 20-year-old medical technology student, Joyce Torrefranca, captioned her Facebook post: “I got inspired by a kid.”<\/div>\n
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Their grocery store home is close to the McDonald’s outlet that had served as Daniel’s study nook, she said.<\/div>\n
She described the boy as a tenacious child with a single-mined focus on getting an education.<\/div>\n
“He is a very studious and determined boy… he would insist on going to school even without his lunch money because I have no money to give,” Ms Espinosa said.<\/div>\n
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“He always tells me: ‘Mama, I don’t want to stay poor. I want to reach my dreams’.”<\/div>\n
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Ms Espinosa said, aside from the cash, school supplies and scholarship offer that would guarantee his education through college, people had given school uniforms and a reading lamp.<\/div>\n
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The local church and government social welfare office had also received aid on his behalf.<\/div>\n
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“He has become a symbol of poor slum boys in the city who can’t study because they don’t have electricity.”<\/div>\n
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