into prostitution or working in garbage dumps or had been coerced into gangs. and efren is helping them learn and get back to school. we gather all the children. we hold our programs here for health care, for feeding the children. and we have activity like school supplies giving. we have regular volunteers gathering, providing them encouragement, empowering them as much as we can. very good. my life before was really a miserable life. i have been also in prostitution, child prostitution, child labor. the classroom is not just a school for me but also a family for me. this year in one month alone, efren and his team got more than 1,200 kids from the streets back into the school system. [ applause ] on top of decreasing the drop yacht rate in his hometown dropout rate in his hometown,
after we were featured, people were like, you re doing a good job. it changed everything. it changed the perspective of a lot of people. in a country where nearly a quarter of the people live below the poverty line, efren s story of hope helped put a struggling population on the map. as the world began to focus on the plight of children living in poverty, more kids got the chance to learn. whenever we go from one community to another community, children were like swarming around, running towards us. they were waiting for us and smiling. they really have this hunger for learning. today, efren s simple little cart and a team of passionate volunteers have brought education to an estimated 40,000 children around the world. many of these kids were sold into prostitution or working in garbage dumps or had been coerced into gangs. efren is helping them learn and get back into school.
of hope helped put a struggling population on the map. as the world began to focus on the plight of children living in poverty, more kids got the chance to learn. whenever we go from one community to another community, children were like swarming around, running towards us. they were waiting for us and smiling. they really have this hunger for learning. today, efren s simple little cart and a team of passionate volunteers have brought education to an estimated 40,000 children around the world. many of these kids were sold into prostitution or working in garbage dumps or had been coerced into gangs. efren is helping them learn and get back into school. togethewe gather all the chi. we hold the programs for health care, feeding the children. we have activities like school supplies giving. we have regular volunteers gathering, providing them
she was one of the most accomplished and beloved people of the 20th century and the catholic churchgoing to declare mother teresa a saint. reporter: she was born agnes into a middle-class albanian family in 1910 in what was then part of the ottoman empire. she left home at 18 to become a catholic nun, calling herself teresa and traveled to calcutta, india, to serve the poorest of the poor. in calcutta, she received what she later described as a call within a call. mother teresa left her position as the headmistress in a convent school to follow jesus into the slums, she said. she sheltered orphans abandoned in garbage dumps, comforted the insane, cleaned the elsers of
took place. those services protected by armed guards. and for millions of coptic christians today it s palm sunday. they ll celebrate easter next sunday. many holding services even under the threat of attack from groups like isis but helping many of them overcome the struggles is this woman. she s known as mama maggie. known to many as the mother theresa of cairo. lauren green is laif with more on mama maggie. you know coptic christians live as second class citizens in egypt many living in literal garbage dumps. this woman has shown them a new hope for the future despite their present sufferings. her name is mama maggie. her two decades she has served the children living in egypt s slums but her organization. seven of those beheaded came out