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- What we need: Pencils Notebooks Crayons Eraser Sharpener Bag Old Books Whatever you can think of. To send money donations: Send a gcash of 20 pesos to 09065195969. We will accumulate all donations received within a week and would buy the school supplies in bulk. This way we would be able to ask for more discounts from suppliers. We keep an updated list of our [...]
- Do you have an extra twenty pesos? It may not seem to be that much when you just use it to play online games or subscribe to your network provider’s promos. But it goes a long, long way when you use it to buy school materials to help bring back a child to school.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 15 December 2009 10:58
School Supply Distribution and Psychosocial Activities in Montalban Rizal
Last night was a bit stressful coz some of the volunteers backed out the last minute. However, God has planned this before us and made sure we’ll be okay despite the lack of numbers. Today was all about God’s greatness, it’s that with God – NOTHING IS EVER IMPOSSIBLE.
There were 150 kids and only 5 volunteers. Bob, Jin and I handled the kids from 7 up. I think there were around 60-70 inside the room. Although I would have wished for it to be in a smaller groups so that we can really reach out to them. We started the session by talking about the past disasters Ondoy and Pepeng, their experiences and we tried our best to educate them about the past typhoons.
Then we proceeded to drawings, where I told the kids to draw their most unforgettable moment, be it happy or sad. It wasn’t that surprising when most of the drawings we got were about Ondoy, some were really heartbreaking coz it tells the story of their experience, having seen dead bodies floating around, bridge collapsing and their houses being destroyed by the typhoon.
Also, I had the time to talk with at least five parents, while the kids were busy drawing, and told them that this kind of activity is essential for the kids. I found it disturbing that they were pulling the kids out of the psychosocial therapy session. I told them that the kids’ way of showing their inner feelings is thru their drawings, these are the things they don’t usually tell their parents and more importantly, these are the things that need our attention right now. Thank goodness they agreed and didn’t ask for the children again.
All in all, I’d like to say it was a huge success. We were able to give out school supplies to ALL of the children. Congratulations to the organizers of this event, CDRC, Amihan and all others. And to all our donors who continuously support Project 20! You guys are the heroes of these kids!
Last Updated on Sunday, 8 November 2009 12:16