Rappler's latest stories on street children
At 50, Sesame Street still going strong – and big honor awaits
Since its debut in November 1969 on American public television, the famous address has taken on many forms in more than 150 countries
Hundreds of Manila minors taken into custody for staying out past curfew
Manila Mayor Isko Moreno's curfew memorandum seeks to penalize parents for their perceived neglect of underaged kids
Daniel Cabrera, boy in viral FB post, graduates from Cebu grade school
Daniel's life has changed since a photo of him studying outside a McDonald's branch to take advantage of electricity spread on social media
DSWD to 'rescue' homeless kids, IPs begging in streets during holidays
The DSWD says it is closely coordinating with local government units on the effort
Photography exhibit by street children to be held at Museo Pambata
The exhibit features photographs taken by street children living around Roxas Boulevard
'Sagip Batang Solvent': PDEA wants to take in street children for rehab
The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency wants to set up 'homey facilities' for street children addicted to solvent, where they can learn skills and receive counseling
IN PHOTOS: Bikers spend Christmas with homeless Filipinos
Every year, volunteer bikers from the Bike Scouts Philippines organize the 'Midnight Ride' to deliver gifts to homeless kids and their parents
WATCH: Interior design for the poor? UP students make it happen
This furniture project of students from the UP College of Home Economics aims to expose the interior design community to the needs of marginalized sectors
#ShareLove this holiday season, one good deed at a time
Check out this list of organizations with charitable activities you can join this Christmas
McDonald's ad features Cebu street boy's story
Daniel Cabrera now 11 was captured in an inspiring viral photo in 2015 while studying outside the fastfood chain s branch in Mandaue City at night Watch the video here
Public urged to report street kids to DSWD hotline, Twitter
DSWD NCR s hotline 734 8623 and Twitter account @savestreetkids are ready to receive reports of kids seen in the streets
On Trinoma-SM footbrige, boy sells flowers and reads his way to school
His brother does the same in another footbridge With their father in jail they sell sampaguitas so they could go to school
#InspireCourage: The education of Daniel Cabrera
Ever since a photo of Daniel studying on a sidewalk went viral his life has changed He now has a scholarship and his family now has a place to call home
MovePH, Childhope Asia team up to tell street kids' stories
This partnership will allow us to move our audience to action encouraging them to act for the street children that we serve says Childhope Asia executive director Herbert Carpio
Former PH street kids win at Asian Grand Prix ballet competition
Former street kids Edmar Sumera and Benedict Sabularse are among 12 young Filipino dancers who won awards and scholarships at the international competition
The inspiring story of 2 street kids who became amazing ballet dancers
Nothing about ballet is easy they say but it is worth it Meet Edmar and Benedict – former street kids now ballet dancers with scholarships to London s Royal Ballet School s summer program
PH gets taste of Duterte anti-crime war
Across the nation police have already reported killing more than 20 alleged drug suspects over the past fortnight egged on by Duterte who has urged them to begin his war on crime even before he takes office at the end of this month
Advocates to Duterte: Don't imprison parents of street kids
Do you agree that parents of unattended minors mostly street children loitering the streets from 10 pm to 5 am should be imprisoned?
Kids find hope, break from streets in sports fest
The children learn the value of working hard practicing improving your skills says Childhope Chairman Chips Guevara of the sports fest
Drugged beggar babies for rent in Indonesia
The baby was unresponsive when they found him – drugged with Clonazepam a strong sedative used to treat anxiety conditions in adults
Inspiring tenacity, acts of kindness from 2015
Despite the dark moments of 2015 there are still stories of hope thanks to ordinary people s acts of kindness
Pre-APEC arrests: PH urged to release Manila's homeless
Human Rights Watch: Philippine authorities hold hundreds of homeless Manila residents in 3 facilities to beautify the city ahead of the summit
‘Rescue operations’ for street kids done regularly – Manila gov’t
So far 141 kids have been taken off the streets this week says a Manila city official
More children in PH at risk of losing parental care
Children who need closer attention include: child drug couriers underage victims of cybersex teenage mothers and their kids children of indigenous people and children with disabilities
Tuloy Foundation: A house of refuge for street children
We are not only here to fill up the stomach and put a shirt on the back but to develop the totality of the person so that they can face the totality of circumstances and realities in the world says the institution s founder
Street kids turned ballet dancers
Once roaming the streets of Metro Manila ballet dancers from Tuloy Foundation talk about their dreams in the performing arts
Virlanie launches #HelpOurBabies campaign
Donations will help the foundation feed the babies and toddlers 3 complete meals every day
Street kid turned missionary: The story of Paulo
This is a story of how a street child overcame all challenges and became a missionary for others
Busting myths about children of the streets
Bust the many myths about street children Ignorance makes indifference easy and indifference normalizes ignorance
What ever happened to that kid on the street?
In anticipation of the International Day for Street Children on April 12 the world asks What would you change about your streets?
After Frederico: 'No more children at RAC'
The Reception and Action Center in Manila can only resume its operations after meeting standards of government run residential facilities
Probe of Frederico’s former shelter pushed in House
Aside from Manila s Reception and Action Center RAC lawmakers also want to look into the state of all other child shelters in the country
Volunteerism: Changing the world one child at a time
On weekdays Te Candano works at a bank processing remittances from seafarers On weekends she serves as a volunteer helping put a smile on kids faces
DSWD spends P4.8M on street families' Batangas trip
DSWD Secretary Corazon Juliano Soliman during a Senate committee hearing defends her department s decision to take street families to out of town trips called family camps
The return of Baywalk’s banished ‘bedspacers’
Strange how a day before Pope Francis comes to Manila 100 or so people seem to have vanished They seem to have magically disappeared from the same place where the sea swallows the sun
Palace defends sending street kids to resort
We don’t make it a point to lie about these things also because you see that one of the administration’s biggest program is poverty alleviation
Hidden from the Pope?: Netizens, DSWD speak up on #streetkids
Discussion on the disappearance of street families in Manila during the papal visit
Conversation: Were #streetkids hidden from Pope Francis?
Join us at 5pm today January 21 Share your thoughts and suggestions using the hashtag streetkids or tag our offical Twitter accounts @moveph and @rapplerdotcom
Were street families hidden from the Pope?
About 400 individuals from street families under the DSWD s MCCT program in Malate are brought to a resort in Nasugbu Batangas during the papal visit
Pope Francis and a young girl’s question
The young girl’s question highlights in a huge way the most difficult problem this country has not been able to solve – massive and extreme poverty
Street kids: Pope Francis showed us God is here
We are poor but when I saw Pope Francis I realized we are rich after all We are rich in God s love says street child Jason Reyes
Girl breaks down before Pope
UPDATED Two street children tell their stories to Pope Francis at the University of Santo Tomas in Manila a law student wants to know how to love and a Typhoon Yolanda volunteer asks what more the youth can do
DSWD to shut down facility where Frederico was found
Remember Frederico? The center where his infamous photo was taken might soon close says DSWD
Street kids meet pope in surprise, private encounter
Children from the Tulay ng Kabataan meet Pope Francis and Archbishop Tagle after the Mass at the Manila Cathedral
#HungerProject 2014: Untold stories of children
On the first year of Rappler’s HungerProject we learn about the untold stories of children: the abused and abandoned the nomads the unwanted and sadly the ones who could not make it to 2015
On 2nd chances: Children in conflict with the law
Give them a chance they re victims too say child s rights advocates
Street kids ask Aquino for hug, photo, Christmas carol
President Benigno Aquino III distributes gifts to 1 000 street children in Malacañang
The invisible kids of the streets
Street children with disabilities Ever thought of them?
Do not give alms to beggars this Christmas – DSWD
Giving alms encourage street kids to go caroling on the streets is risky squeeze themselves between vehicles tap on car windows jump from one public utility vehicle to another
Frederico: From Facebook to the Senate
Two Senate resolutions have been filed seeking a probe into the rehabilitation centers for street children
