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Founded in Norway in 2004,
Streetlight’s efforts extend around the
globe. Its work in Tacloban began in
2006 through Neva Homeres and
Erlend Johannesen; and with the
help of volunteers, they ran a shelter
for orphans and tutorial sessions for
kids who might have been shoeless at
first, but who were full of wonder and
curiosity, willing to learn. Children were
provided with the most basic needs:
breakfast, lunch, school uniforms,
school books and help with homework.
Four years later, when Streetlight
needed to build a study center in a new
location, they called on their friends in
Norway — Alexander E. Furunes, Trond
H. Hegvold and Ivar K.V. Tutturen,
three students completing a degree
in architecture at the Norwegian
University of Science and Technology
(NTNU). Although they had each
traveled through Asia, none of them
had ever been to the Philippines. But
for four months that year, they made
Tacloban their home.
I N S P I R I N G S T R U C T U R E S
“Most of the youths in Barangay 37 are out
of school because of poverty,” says Nerren.
With the study center, that need not be the
case. Clockwise from left: tutorial sessions
at the center; kids as young as three attend
school; about 10 fathers and 15 to 20
mothers worked on the school
PHOTOS
NELSON PETILLA, TROND HEGV
OL
D (WORKSHOP)