‘Graveyard shift’ informal teacher among 11 TOYM honorees

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by Miguel R. Camus

January 9, 2019

MANILA, Philippines – In 2003, a 19-year-old Jaton Zulueta Jr. started an informal teaching career on a literal graveyard shift.

He would gather out-of-school youths living in mausoleums in the Manila South Cemetery to give them basic reading and math lessons.

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