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The heartbreaking picture that shines a light on education plight of millions of children by Gordon Brown, United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education #upforschool education funding Picture:  Facebook/Joyce Torrefranca A young boy from the Philippines - pictured at a makeshift desk doing his homework in the street, under the lights of a McDonald's restaurant - encapsulates the great paradox of global education today: more young people than ever before realise the importance of the right to education but too few adults are making that right into a reality. Most of us have a home and yet find it difficult to persuade our children to do homework.  Daniel Cabrera, just nine years old, lives and studies on the streets of Manila because his home was burned down shortly after his father died suddenly.  Left homeless, he now lives with his widowed mother and brother in the same street food stall where she works. Sleeping rough, he needs the brig...