By RACHEL C. BARAWID
May 27, 2010, 10:41am (www.mb.com.ph)
A few years back, Cris “Kesz” Valdez was like any other streetchild – he begged and cursed on the side. He would rather sleep on the pavements than go home and get a beating from his father or brother.
Instead of being in school, then three-year-old Kesz was digging [...]

By RACHEL C. BARAWID
June 16, 2010, 12:31pm (www.mb.com.ph)
Unlike other teenagers his age, 16-year-old Emanuel “Em” Bagual already knows how his future will pan out. Em can see himself in the future, most probably as a human rights lawyer, a staunch advocate of the welfare of the marginalized and battered children.
Em is just a college freshman [...]

By MA. EMICON M. MEDENILLA
June 5, 2010, 11:12am (www.mb.com.ph)
Just when he thought that he was nothing and of no value to this world, Harnin “Kuya Bonn” Manalaysay, more known as the mentor of CNN Hero Efren Peñaflorida, Jr., woke up one morning to realize that he had just been given a second chance at life.
Kuya [...]