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Article: Homeless but not aimless.(Education)
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- Manila Bulletin
- Article date:
- July 3, 2009
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For homeless people who worry primarily about finding their next meal for the day, hopping on a plane to travel to another country is certainly asking for too much.But if you are good at playing football, this is not an impossibility.With divine intervention, a few good men and sheer talent, some homeless youths around the world now kick their way out of poverty and into the promise of a better future.FROM THE STREETS TO THE WORLDLast year, a bunch of homeless Filipino youngsters represented the Philippines as members of a national team in the Homeless World Cup (HWC) competition in Melbourne, Australia. Composed of male and female teenagers aged 16 and above, the team ...