The posting from Mexico City says, 'My name is Jesus. I ran away from home when I was 13 because the police were after me. They thought I had robbed 4,500 pesos. I did not steal that money. I took a bus, fell asleep and when I woke up I was lost. I miss my mum. It's been a year that I don't see her.'
'My name is Nan Nan,' says a 15-year-old from Fuyang, Anhui Province on the mainland. 'My parents died of Aids when I was nine. My sister was banned from seeing me because I am an HIV-infected child. Now I go to school with friends every day.'
These are two from a roll-call of thousands of examples of youngsters excluded from education who are being helped by a Unesco programme and campaign spearheaded by best-selling children's author Lauren Child.
There are 77 million primary-age children alone out of school across the globe. Although the world's governments have signed up to the Millennium Development Goal of universal primary education, millions of children still fall through the net because they belong to some of the most excluded groups in society; street children, child soldiers, child prostitutes, HIV/Aids orphans, refugees and marginalised ethnic communities.
Now the children's author, well known in Hong Kong and the mainland for her animated series Charlie and Lola, a hit as Cha Li Yu Lao La on China Central Television and broadcast on TVB, is leading a campaign called My Life is a Story.
Her aim is to raise awareness of these children's plights, draw children into literacy projects and provide funds for a Unesco programme, Education for Children in Need, which is finding new ways to reach children who would otherwise never get the chance to go to school. Part of the project will involve gathering children's personal stories from all over the world and giving them a voice by posting them on the internet.