Pāhonoa te oro

Everyone laughed at the boy because he was poor. He wore the same clothes to school almost every day, and his shoes were torn. Sometimes he even walked barefoot. Other students mocked him and some teachers ignored him, but the boy never argued. He stayed quiet. Every evening after school, while other kids were playing or watching TV, he sat under a streetlight with his books. There was no electricity in his house. People passing by would ask him why he was studying so hard. They told him that p