Ka Cesar, I am eavesdropping on your conversations with Loreto and would like to share the following with you all. My husband and I have a small literacy project called Unang Aklat:First Books for Filipino Children. Since we donate books directly to children and not to school libraries, we chose this name. The books literally are the first books that these children own, and our intention is to empower them. To own something of value in an impoverished community is very empowering, (more so if you are just a child), andthey are books which represent education and your future. Now on its second year, it is still a small project which we fund out of our own pockets, from warehousing to shipping, with our personal labor thrown in. No volunteers at this stage. Momentarily, that is, until it grows. My husband supports my lifestyle financially and whateverlittle my Bookshop earns are committed to this project. Allow meto thank my Bookshop clients for their support. After 25 years in the book business here in the US, and now on the brink of retirement,I have turned my mind into social engineering and wish me luck ! We chose an elementary school in San Jose, Antique and the childrenfrom Grades l-Vl are the recipients. They use the books in theirReading Program because the school has limited resources. It is a five-year program and we know the progress of the school children in readingand comprehension at the end of the school year. Needless to say, thereare other components to this literacy project that are on the backburnerfor lack of resources and supervisory time at our end. I do not mind sharing my imput about this project. This is a project that other people can follow for their own towns or barangays. The project is actually a tie-up between the school (thru the school principal) and ourselves, although we plan to expand it to include other members of the community next year, our third year. Our thoughts are that we want to keep this a private endeavor because it can easily be politicized and used for other people's purposes. According to UNESCO a few years back, there is a large percentage of young people dropping out of school after their 4th grade for many reasons.If we (Filipinos abroad especially) do not extend a helping hand to ouryoung people, what will happen to the next generation of Filipinos? Hopefully, projects like ours will help to alleviate the situation, even in a small way. We want children to develop a love for books and reading at a young age. As we all know, good reading habits translate to good grades, which in turn will mean a good education, which ultimately is a passport out of poverty. So, whatever little we do, in whatever way we can, will help our Inang Bayan. We know that other people have good projects and good intentions. To dream and to speak about it is the beginning but it is important to put our words into action and walk the talk. Plan individually or in small groups because it is faster to start something small with just a few heads put together. In our case, it is just Rob's and mine. It would be nice to hear what others are doing which can be duplicated by other people in a different setting. This is the reason why doable projects like this should be shared, not because we have bragging rights, but because we want to help motivate other people who may have plans to do something similar but are afraid to start. The important thing is to start small, baby steps, until your footing is firmer. Best to all, Linda P. S. - BTW, we send used but clean children's books from the US, properly screened so that they are not totally alien to our culture. Nice,hardbound, colorful books on nature and the enviroment are big hits, as well as folk and hero tales; books that teach human values aside from Reading. We are lucky to have a free supply from some public libraries in our area but sometimes, we do buy them from library book sales. Being in the book business, I know of other sources which I have yet to tap. ---
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Mabuhay. ---- --- On Sat, 11/28/09, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: From: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: [Filam-Forum] Re: A kind hearted chubby angel from Silicon Valley, originally fromPangasinan, is requesting us to contribute kahit magkano para ipadala mgalibro and school materials To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Date: Saturday, November 28, 2009, 1:21 PM Oo Loreto, kaya maghahanap tayo. We will ask Arnel and Pastor Israel Alvaran or Dale Asis for Tucuma. And we will look for some from Samar, preferably from the North, for the San Miguel, Las Navas, Integrated Library. $1.42. $10, $100. $1,000 (naku po), $1 million. Diyos ko. Cesar Torres XXXX -----Original Message----- From: loret...@yahoo. com To: Worldwide-Filipino- Alliance@ yahoogroups. com Sent: Sat, Nov 28, 2009 11:39 am Subject: Re: [Worldwide-Filipino -Alliance] A kind hearted chubby angel from Silicon Valley, originally fromPangasinan, is requesting us to contribute kahit magkano para ipadala mgalibro and school materials I don't collect money, Kuya Cesar. You do that as organizer then make check payable to LBC or Manila Box or ask someone to sponsor one box. I will get all the materials, donated and bought. Used books and a few new ones, stuffed toys, crayons, pens/pencils, craft paper, safety scissors, educ puzzles if avail, etc para medyo kumpleto rekado. Maliliit na projects lang pero nakakatulong din naman kahit papaano. Sources are my family members, friends, library book sales, Border Books and even Goodwill. Anybody can do this, tiyaga at lakas ng loob lang and no one is making money out of these; we just want to help to promote literacy one balikbayan box at a time. Nasa recipients na how they can optimize these limited resources to benefit the schoolchildren and teachers. Kailangan lang talaga na me mga literacy programs that are fun, creative, easy to implement and effective. Maybe, Manang or Ading Amanda Bueno can help in this regard esp re: First Five. Thanks a lot po! Loreto Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry From: ceasar1...@aol. com Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2009 13:39:16 -0500 To: <initiative2010@ yahoogroups. com>; <Filam-Forum@ yahoogroups. com>; <UP-alumni-in- cyberspace@ yahoogroups. com>; <moonglowplanet@ yahoogroups. com>; <gugmahansamar@ yahoogroups. com>; <tal...@yahoogroups. com>; <worldwide-filipino- alliance@ yahoogroups. com>; <globalfilipinos@ yahoogroups. com>; <ofw-core_group@ yahoogroups. com> Subject: [Worldwide-Filipino -Alliance] A kind hearted chubby angel from Silicon Valley, originally from Pangasinan, is requesting us to contribute kahit magkano para ipadala mga libro and school materials To a Barangay Integrated School in poor Samar. Pati sana sa Tucuma, in Paranaque, a very, very poor community of the poorest of the poor in Metro Manila. Below is a discussion on the books intended for Barangay San Miguel, in Las Navas, Nothern Samar. The donations puede naman ng $1.00 pero ang stamp is already $0.42 cents, medyo sayang kung $1.00 lang. Sa Tucuma, puede seguro kay Dale Asis, Executive Director of the Global Coaltion Phlippines. I will get the full address. Sa San Miguel, we will ask Gov Daza or Mr. Quintin L. Doroquez for their contacts. Salamat. Cesar Torres XXXX UPDATES FOR THE BOOKS IN BARANGAY SAN MIGUEL, LAS NAVAS, NORTHERN SAMAR Yes, it would be nice to have a reading program. The schoolchildren should be given time to go to the library to read or be read to esp the younger ones or it could be done in the classroom. I am also sending small stuffed toys to be used with the books. The librarian/teachers must be creative to use the books together with the toys to make reading fun. They can also have a contest on who could read the most books, how many new vocabulary words the students learn and using it in a sentence, spelling contest, translation contest, word association contest. They can have group spelling contest wherein each student in a group have a big flash card with a letter and compete against another group in running to the front and form the assigned word. They can also have a buddy reading program where the older kids read to the younger ones, one on one or one is to sml group. They could do this under the trees, in the library, or in the classroom. The teachers could also have a "Word of the Day" program by introducing a new vocabulary word each day to be used in conjunction of what they will be reading on that day or several words. They can also tie this in with an arts class (cut up paper and form letters and words and color them). They could also ask the older students to read a book and write the gist of the story and have a class discussion. It all depends how motivated and creative the teachers are in inspiring and teaching their students using whatever materials they have. But don't worry, the younger kids will have fun with the books I will send, very colorful, interactive( pull out and pop up books), very educational but in English. Translation maybe needed. The older ones will have pang-young adults/teenagers like Twilight if they are following this extremely popular series(twilight, new dawn, etc), Harry Potter and other series reading books and some Math, Science, English books incl dictionaries also fiction and non-fiction books for the teachers. These are used books in good condition and slightly used ones whatever I could pack in a 20x20x20 balikbayan box.I wish I could give more but many are asking and I only have limited resources esp for shipping costs. I hope this small donation will help inspire the teachers to be creative in teaching and ignite in the students a deep interest in reading so they discover the magic of knowledge and appreciation in each book. Maraming salamat po! 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