"I always tell my volunteers that you are the change that you dream and I am the change that I dream. And collectively we are the change that this world needs to be."

This is quoted from the CNN Story entitled, "Pushcart classes help break gang chain."

Efren Peñaflorida,27,founded Dynamic Teen Company in Cavite City in 1997. The teen volunteers take the Kariton Klasrum to unwashed, unshod, and unschooled kids in the least likely learning environments such as public markets, cemeteries, slums, and prison.

Many overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) take the plunge and brave separation from their families because they feel that there is no hope in the Philippines.

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Street-begging children from the Philippines are being fed and taught to read, write, count, behave well and hygiene by fellow children 12 to 15 years of age, volunteers of the Dynamic Teen Company and former members of the group now in their early 20s. They roam around town carrying their books, boards and teaching stuff along with their hygiene kits and food supplies. They have constructed a pushcart to help them mobilize more and carry more equipments like tables chairs and bookshelf around town. They get their funding from recycling junk and other fundraising crafts. Some of them were former street kids, trafficked kids, and trash scavengers who were sent to school by their fellow teens. They find more ways than one in bringing hope to the young and making a considerable difference in society. Dynamic Teen Company's efforts to bring the basics of education, love for learning, food for hungry stomachs, cure for wounds, are unparalleled...

Before I have even seen the dawn of the Earth, I was fearfully and wonderfully crafted by the very One who’ve created all things that existed. It was in the joyous season of 1992 when I finally seen the Earth and breathed its air. That’s where my parents got my name Emanuel, meaning “God with us” for in that season, all of the Earth celebrates the coming of the Messiah. I grew up a simple boy, in a humbling community near the city cemetery. Economically, our family lived in poverty but as a youngster my thoughts were about playing and dreaming. I never felt it because that was normal for me, my younger brother Erwin and with the other people sorrounding me. I was then occupied with hanging out with the naughty and the rebels. I turned out to be little by little more self-serving, day after day after day. But mother was the one who neutralized it all, she again and again taught our young minds of the values of honesty and responsibility...