He has no desk, no chair, not even a lamp.
All he has is the ground of an ordinary street, a notebook, and the light a lamppost lends him so he can see the letters. Beside him, a bag of sweets waits for a buyer. This is how the TikTok account @criselillanes recorded it in March 2023: a child who, between one sale and the next, lies down on the ground and does his homework as best he can, wherever he can.
The video received more than 5 million views. In the comments, thousands of people said the same thing: stop filming and help him. Others said they had seen him before, always the same way, studying between customers. No one confirmed whether someone eventually came over to lend him a hand, but the scene kept circulating on social media as an uncomfortable reminder of how many children struggle just to go to school.