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Barbi Carroll / John Hawbaker
Our Mission Statement Mission Love Seeds, Inc., was created to feed and clothe the hungry and poor through out the world , to demonstrate God's love, and open doors to tell children and their families about the great gift, Jesus Christ
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Children who need a SponsorID: 35 Birthday 2004-10-10 Village: Binayuyo Christian Andre Leano is a cute 3-year old boy who likes to play with his cousin. He is second from the family?s siblings. He is very shy the first time you meet him, but he is a very friendly little boy with people he knows. He is a very good little boy and likes to attend Bible study. He has learned a lot from the Mission, like how to pray. His parents do their best to give him a good future. His father works as a construction worker who earn $5.39 a day and his mom stays in the house to take care of him and his two sisters. Their house is made of wood and metal as is their roof. ID: 39 Birthday 1994-01-09 Village: Dumpsite Albert Afable is 13-years old. Last year, his mother, Lolita, died of a heart attack. His father, Leonardo, works as a charcoal maker. Albert will be in Grade 5 this coming school year. When we visited Albert in his village, he told us he is tired because he works at night collecting items from the local dumpsite to sell. Even though it is summer vacation, he wants to save for his educational expenses next year. Albert is a shy teenage boy. He does not smile as much since losing his mother, but we pray God will find someone to bless this young man. ID: 38 Birthday 1997-10-02 Village: Binayuyo Joanna Calixterio is 9 years old and in Grade 4 this year. She does not mind having to walk more than 1 km to school because she wants to learn. Her father works as a driver, but is separated from her mother. Because he works so many hours to support his little girl, Joanna stays with her grandmother before and after school. Her house is made from woven bamboo and they collect water from a well not too far from their house. Joanna likes to play with her friends in the village. She is a smart girl, being a second honor is her last achievement in class last year. She wants to have new shoes and uniforms for her everyday use for school. ID: 40 Birthday 2000-03-17 Village: Binayuyo Allysa Baguno is a lovely little 7-year old girl who lives in Binayuyo. She walks 30 minutes to attend school where she is in Grade II. Her mother works as a lady farmer while her father is a construction worker in Manila. Because transportation is so expensive, her father Roger can only be with the family one day a week. Allysa helps her mother Rosemarie carry water from the local well every day for all their needs. She also helps with household chores, like sweeping their backyard. ID: 42 Birthday 1994-09-09 Village: Dumpsite Maricar Coyos is a 10-year old in Grade III. Her father separated from her mother, and she now lives with her father and stepmother, who have a baby boy named Carlo. Their house is made of old linoleum, assorted sacks and scrap materials. Her stepmother works collecting plastic scraps to sell to the junk shop. Her father takes care of the children, but if he finds a job, Maricar will take care of the baby. Maricar wants to finish her studies. She helps her stepmother gather scrap material to sell and save money for her school expenses. She also likes to sing and dance, and her favorite subjects are math and science. ID: 43 Birthday 1997-08-24 Village: Binayuyo Ronald Matillano is 9 years old and in Grade III. He wakes up each morning at 4 a.m. so he can get ready and walk the 1.5 km to school. Ronald is active in school studies and very strong in English, but his favorite subject is Math. a His mother (whose husband died many years ago) suffers from arthritis, but is determined to send her youngest son to school. Ronald helps his mother with laundry and household chores when her hands don?t have the strength to do it herself. Ronald?s big brother, with a family of his own to support, has a small store. Some days, Ronald?s mother watches the store, providing them some money for food and school expenses. If Ronald has any free time, he and his friends gather anything they can sell to save for school. His dream is to finish his studies and become a civil engineer. He wants to build a house for his mother, so he can provide her a safe future. ID: 46 Birthday 2003-01-16 Village: Admiral John Rey Solatorio is 4 years old. His father earns $6 per day doing construction work. His mother sells vegetables to their village neighbors to earn extra money for the family. Their house is made of scrap plywood and plastic with a dirt floor. They cook outside using a wood stove. John Rey loves to play with his little brother, and wants to be a doctor when he grows up. His parents love to hear about his dream, but wonder how it will ever come true when they cannot afford the tuition for John Rey to go to school next year. When Mission Love Seeds visits his village, John Rey loves to be a part of the activities. After Bible studies are over, he smiles and shares his candy treats with friends. ID: 47 Birthday 2003-03-07 Village: Binayuyo Danica Estropigan is a little 3 year old girl. Although shy at first meeting her, she has a wonderful smile once she knows you. Her mother takes care of eight children, while her father works as a farmer. Their house is made from bamboo with a metal roof overhead. Danica is the second to youngest, and plays with her brothers and sisters and friends in the village. Danica is always barefooted and she was naked at the time that we were visiting her. Danica?s favorite food is fried noodles and she knows that it is the very best food. Like other children, she eats with her hands. If you will hand a candy to her she will give you a sweet smile and say ?thank you.? ID: 48 Birthday 1996-08-25 Village: Binayuyo Jemalyn Francisco is a pretty girl. She walks 1.5 km to school to attend Grade 3. She wakes up at 5 a.m. to do household chores before getting ready for school. Jenelyn loves school and received a Best in Himig ng Kulture (Social Culture) award. Her favorite subject is Filipino. After school, she walks home and eats lunch. Jenelyn helps her mother with housekeeping and taking care of her younger siblings. Her mother works on a farm because her father is sick. As a tearful Jenelyn told us, it hurts her to see her father suffering from liver disease. She wants to be a nurse because she wants to take good care of her father and mother and other people who are sick. After finishing her chores, she helps her mother sell vegetables in their neighborhood. As young as she is, Jenelyn does not mind all this responsibility, because she knows the family?s condition can change with hard work. She dreams of someday having their own house and transportation so her parents do not have to walk as far. Jenelyn?s dreams for her family and herself are depending on the will of God, and she prays very hard for the Lord to help them. ID: 49 Birthday 1998-10-06 Village: Admiral Mary Jane Senining is 9 years old and in Grade 3. She is excited for school to start, even though she must leave her house at 6 a.m. The school day lasts until 2 p.m., but Mary Jane likes reading so much she never tires of school. Her mother, Virginia, is a housekeeper who cares for six children. Her father, Sweden, is a construction worker. Their house is made of metal roofing and walls, with scrap wood for window frames. Her dream is to be a teacher someday because she wants to help other children read and learn. If she is able to earn enough money, she would want to buy her mother clothes, and to buy shoes for her father. ID: 50 Birthday 2004-11-11 Village: Admiral Daniela Miraflor, who will be three this month, lives in the village of Admiral with her mother, a housekeeper, her father, who does construction work, and her baby sister. Their house is only 10 feet by 10 feet, very small for four people to live in. They cook on a stove outside, even when it rains. Her mother washes their clothes in a plastic bucket, and uses this same bucket for washing dishes. Daniela likes to play outside her house with friends who live nearby. Although Daniela is not sure why her picture is being taken, she is told that someone is just waiting to bless her through Mission Love Seeds. ID: 51 Birthday 2002-11-11 Village: Admiral Jesabel Salon is a 6-year-old girl who has four siblings. Her father works far away from home as a construction worker, earning $4.25 per day. To save money on transportation, he lives on-site. It keeps him away from his family for days at a time. Jesabel is the second oldest, and helps her mother with the other children. Their house is made from bamboo framing, scrap plywood and plastic for the walls and roofing. The floor is dirt, and when it rains, the water runs into their house. Jesebel hopes to start kindergarten in June. She thinks of becoming a doctor, but does not really understand what school means yet. She likes coming to Bible study, and asks her mother to attend the activities when Mission Love Seeds visits her village. Her family would be so very blessed with the assistance of someone to help them. ID: 52 Birthday 1996-04-13 Village: Binayuyo Michael Nobleza is the youngest child in his family. His mother has raised him alone, because his father died years ago. Michael?s older brother and sister have families of their own. A Grade 2 student, Michael walks 1.5 km to and from school, but he loves school and doesn?t mind this hardship. When he comes home, he eats his lunch and helps with household chores, like washing dishes and cleaning the house. When he finishes, he studies his assignments for the next day. If he has free time, he plays with other kids in his village. On the weekends he gathers cans, plastic, metal and any scrap materials he can sell to save toward his school expenses, and provide food for himself and his mother. Michael wants to be a doctor someday so he can care for his mother and also to help other people in his village because there is not a doctor nearby. It is hard for him to imagine how he can fulfill this dream, but Michael has ambition, and knows studying hard in school is one thing he must do. Mission Love Seeds will keep praying Michael?s dreams can be realized. ID: 53 Birthday 1999-11-07 Village: Sitio Pantay Salve Persia is 7 years old and in Grade 2 this year. She is very excited about going to school. Her mother takes in laundry from other families to make a living. Salve has three siblings; her brother has received medical assistance from Mission Love Seeds in the past. Like most houses in her area, they use scrap linoleum and corrugated metal for the walls and roof. Leftover sacks work as insulation on the walls from the wind. The children help their mother haul water from a well some distance away. Salve and her mother are active in the Sunday School service and other Mission Love Seeds activities. ID: 55 Birthday 1997-06-16 Village: Binayuyo Baby Jane Felisario is a 9-year-old girl whose expression is more like someone much older who faces immense responsibility. Although only in Grade 2, she has many family responsibilities. Her father works as a part time farmer. Her mother helps him with farming when she is not taking care of Baby?s three younger siblings. Baby wakes up early each morning to begin her day?s routine. She walks 1.5 km to school, where her favorite subject is Pilipino. After classes, she walks home with her friends from the village. After she has lunch, she walks to fetch water for the family from a nearby well. She must do this three times to gather enough water for dishes and laundry. While her mother does laundry at the well, Baby will clean the house and watch over her younger siblings. For someone so young, Baby does a lot of hard work around the house. She dreams of finishing school and then working to help her parents and have a nice house. It is important to her that her younger brother and sister can also go to school. ?I don?t know if I will see my dream come true? she says, ?but I want to be able to find a job when I am old enough so I can help my parents.? ID: 57 Birthday 2001-01-13 Village: Admiral Sheila Frias is 5 years old and attends kindergarten. She has two brothers and two sisters. Because her parents cannot afford food and shelter for all their children, Sheila lives with her grandparents. Her grandmother, Angelina, works as a helper in a canteen, and her grandfather, Nicolas, works as farmer. Sheila is a very good and obedient child. She spends afternoons with her grandpa after school, and loves to attend the Bible studies of Mission Love Seeds. Sheila is always smiling when we visit her village. Her dream is to study hard and become a doctor. Studying medicine, she says, could help her look after her grandparents. As young as she is, if she had money, she would buy a motorcycle for her grandfather so that he would not have to walk as far. It is amazing to see a 5 year old who thinks of others needs above her own. She simply wants to help her grandparents, who are the ones taking care of her. When asked how she can earn money for her education, she answers with an incredible smile, ?The Lord will give money to me.? What incredible faith Sheila has! ID: 58 Birthday 1994-10-02 Village: Dumpsite Rowena Bajar is a beautiful 12-year old. Her mother works in a plastics factory close to their home. Her father, works as a construction worker. Rowena is their only daughter, and they work hard to provide the best they can for her future. The family is thankful for the blessings provided to their village by Mission Love Seeds, and the food distributions help them save money for Rowena?s education.Like all parents, Rodalyn and Wennie just want a better life for their daughter. Their house is made from recycled 2-gallon vegetable oil cans (for the walls) and a scrap metal roof. Rowena has a lovely voice and she is active in church programs and Mission Love Seeds activities. ID: 105 Birthday 2000-11-01 Village: Admiral Diobert Cuizon is 7 years old. He goes to school at the Cambridge Elementary School. His mother is a housekeeper who takes care of three children. His father is a construction worker who earns $6 per day. Diobert likes to play with toys and sometimes he takes care of his sister Molo who is 7 months old. His dream is to ride in an airplane and he wants to be a pilot someday. Diobert has the same kind of house as others in the village. The water that they drink comes from the city water. ID: 59 Birthday 1998-07-28 Village: Sitio Pantay Geraldine Castillar is in Grade III. She has a brother, her father works on a construction farm where he earns $5.50 a day and her mom is a housewife who takes care of the tress and fruits on the lot her family takes care of. She has an allowance for taking care of the lot which helps with their everyday expenses. If her husband does not have work, they will plant vegetables so they have something to eat. Geraldine likes to dance, as she always dances at activities at school. She also likes to sing but she likes dancing better. She helps her mom to get water from the well near their house, a 30-minute walk from her house. Geraldine also helps her mom in doing household chores like washing dishes and sweeping the floor. Their house is made of wood, and they use firewood in cooking. Geraldine wants to go to school and finish her studies. When she grows up she wants to have a job to have money to buy a house for her mom. ID: 60 Birthday 2000-01-08 Village: Sitio Pantay Deserie Alejandre, who is in grade I this year, received an award for this school year as a third honor in the class. She is very industrious as her mother told me that she wants to go school and she does her homework very well. She walks 20-25 minutes from her house to school. Deserie has a brother. Her father works as a farmer and her mother works as part-time seamstress. Deserie likes to dance and she is very eager to finish her studies. She wants to buy clothes and give them to her mom if she has money when she grow up. Sometimes she likes to draw, but because she is quite shy she does not want to show her talent because the people might say her drawings are not good. I told her she needs to show her talent because it might help for her future. Deserie is active to join in her school class on her place. The water that she drinks comes from the tank of the city government. Her house is made of bamboo and metal roof. Deserie is a very talented girl, her parents want to give her a good future, so they always pray that the Lord will provide all the needs for their family and especially to Deserie. ID: 63 Birthday 1999-10-22 Village: Dumpsite Eric Ramirez is 9 years old kid and is in Grade I. He walks 45 minutes to an hour to get to school. At his age he needs to be in Grade III. He stopped last year because he had an accident in a dump where there was a fire. He stepped on it without knowing about the fire. His mother is a housewife taking care of her seven children. His father is a garbage collector. Eric helps his parents by collecting some used plastic bottles and some waste materials that they sell to a junk shop. Their house is made of used oil cans and a metal roof. They get their water at the well for washing dishes and washing clothes. For drinking water, they walk up the hill about 20 minutes from their home. Eric?s family eats two times a day. They eat breakfast and lunch at one time, and there is a time they eat in the afternoon. His younger sister drinks hot water and sugar as a substitute for milk. His mom will mix 25 mg of chocolate with hot water for the other children. ID: 64 Birthday 2003-11-27 Village: Dumpsite Riggee Son is 3 years old. His mother is a vegetables vendor who earns $2 a day and his father is a part-time construction worker. Riggee enjoys playing basketball and dream of becoming a policeman someday. Their house is made of bamboo and used oil cans for their wall and a used oil can for the roof. They get their water at the well for washing dishes and washing clothes. They walk down the hill about 5 minutes, and for the water to drink they need to go up the hill. Riggee and his family always attend all the activities of the Mission. ID: 66 Birthday 2002-12-05 Village: Dumpsite Lyca Villaruel is 4 years old who always like to play with her cousins in the village. When you see her you will see her barefooted, and sometimes playing naked. She doesn?t have enough clothes to wear. She eats rice with water and sugar. Sometimes her mother sprinkles salt on rice as her meal. Hot water with sugar is her milk. She very seldom drinks milk. The nicest meal that they have is a rice with a can of sardines and sometimes rice with noodles. She is the eldest of five children. Her mother works in the house, but sometimes she helps her father in collecting plastic bottles, metals, and other things that they can sell to the junk shop for their everyday needs. Their house is made of used can oils for walls and the roof. Her father sometimes work as a construction worker and earns $5.25 a day. Lyca wants to have dolls, which she never had before. ID: 67 Birthday 2003-01-09 Village: Dumpsite Joylyn Pascual is a nice and cute 4 year old girl. She always like to play, and plays with her small sister. They use old dolls that come from the garbage which their mom washes for them. She likes to eat noodles which are always on their tables. The nicest meal here mom cooks for them is noodles with sardines and rice. In this kind of family it?s very seldom they have meat and fruits in the table. There are times that Joylyn cries because she doesn?t have anything to eat. Her mom cries while giving her a glass of water with sugar to ease the pain of hunger in Joylyn?s stomach. Her mother is a housewife who takes care of her two children. Her father is a driver who earns $4.50 a day, but the work is not regular. Sometimes he works in a plastic factory near their house. Their house is made of used oil cans for their wall sand a metal roof. They get their water from the truck which distributes at their place everyday. Joy wants to have a stuffed toy which she will keep beside her while she is sleeping. ID: 68 Birthday 2004-05-06 Village: Binayuyo Elrenge Ramirez is a three-year-old boy. His mother is a housekeeper who takes care of his seven month old sister. His father is a tricycle driver who earns $4.45 a day. He likes to play in front of their house with his younger sister. He likes to eat rice with fish, sometimes his mom uses vegetable as topping on his rice. Most of the time Elrenge walks in their house barefooted. He very seldom wears shoes. Elrenge is a smart boy and has an uncle who is a pastor and someday he wants be like him. Their house is made of wood and a metal roof. They got their water from the spring. ID: 69 Birthday 1998-03-03 Village: Sitio Pantay Carol Rebamba is 8 years old and in grade III. She needs to walk 25 minutes to get to school. Her favorite subject is math and she is always attentive to answer on their recitation. She likes to dance and she is also active in school activities. Carol goes to school in shoes and sometimes in rubber slippers. Her clothes are wash and wear because she doesn?t have enough clothes. Her normal meal is fish and rice; meats are seldom on the table and the same is true of fruit. She can eat fruit if somebody gives her some. She would like to have a nice bag and nice shoes to use for school. She wants to be a nurse someday. Her house is made of all bamboo and the roof is metal. Her father works as a farmer and her mom collects waste plastic and metal to sell at the junkshop. ID: 178 Birthday 1999-08-05 Village: Sitio Pantay Eva Pamorada is 8 years old and lives in a village here in Antipolo. She is in Grade II. When it comes to recreation, she is not like a child who has luxury toys. She will play with her playmates and get some pieces of stick to make a small house. If she plays alone, she will jump rope. She likes walking in fields and gathering some plants which she plants near their house which is made of old sleeping mats on the walls and a couple of pieces of old roof as their shade. In the rainy season they get wet because the rain gets inside when the old roof leaks. Her father works as a farmer on a commission basis. If they harvest 10 sacks, they will get one sack of the harvest, and they can harvest two-three times a year. There are 10 people in this small house, and it is really hard for them to sleep, but they accept it because that?s the way they live. Even though the parents want to have a good job, they are not educated and cannot have one. ID: 179 Birthday 2004-03-03 Village: Sitio Pantay Neil Allyson Rebamba is a 4 year old girl and likes to play. She has a small car toy which is made of wood. She is the oldest of two children in the family. Her father works as a farmer but sometimes he does part time work at a construction firm. Their house is made of bamboo and a metal roof is the shade of the house. As a child she is the same as other children the same age. Her mom needs to be in the house to look after the two children. Allyson will start school next year. ID: 181 Birthday 1996-03-30 Village: Sitio Pantay Jessa Rodrigues is 9 years old who lives in one village here in Antipolo, she will be in grade III this coming school year, she needs to walk for about 7 minutes from her house to the school , its very near so she can go back and eat lunch. She is second to the youngest of 12 children in the family. Its really hard for them in balancing the earnings of her mom as a vendor for $6.00 a day,because her mom needs to stay on their stall in the market she and her sisters are the on helping on all the household chores, Jessa was the one wash the dishes and others do some chores, because of their financially unstable some of the sister of Jessa needs to stop because her parents do not have much money to send them. Its really a big help for this family if there will be somebody who will help this girl in sending school and fulfill her dreams ID: 182 Birthday 1998-10-31 Village: Sitio Pantay Marissa Olvinar is 8 years old who lives in one of the villages here in Antipolo City. She is in Grade II. She is second to the oldest of four children. She loves to play jump rope with her playmates in a common. In most of her free time, she wants to read and write so she will be ready in school. Reading is her favorite subject; math, too. Her favorite food in her rice is fish. She is a very industrious girl and helps her mom in doing simple house chores. Sometimes she will get the water from the water tank, the source of their water. The river is a substitute for a pool in the village so most of the time Marissa and her friends go to the river to take a bath. She wants to finish her studies and have money so she can buy a lot of food for her family. ID: 183 Birthday 2002-08-30 Village: Sitio Pantay Alwyn Rubio is 5 years old and lives in Sitio Pantay, Philippines. He is the second from the eldest of three children. He likes to play car in front of their house by using a piece of wood and imagining that it?s a toy car. He also plays with his baby brother while his mother cleans the house or washes clothes. His favorite animation is Spiderman which he watches on the TV near their house. They don?t have electricity at their house so at 6 p.m. they have already eaten their dinner. Most of the time they eat rice and vegetables. His father works as a construction worker who earns $4.26 a day. Sometimes he farms if there is no available job, like during the rainy season. Alwyn sometimes tells his friends that he wants to have a nice toy car ? a simple dream of a 5-year old who lives outside of this city. ID: 71 Birthday 2001-03-23 Village: Binayuyo Donna Mae Marmol is 6 years old and in kindergarten. She walks almost 45 minutes to get to school. She was guided by her grandparents. Her grandmother works on a farm with her grandfather. They will plant and wait for months to have a harvest from all the seeds that they plant. Her grandparents are doing the best for Donna Mae for everyday food, but they cannot guarantee that they can give her an education. She is very fond of taking care of pets. She has puppies, and she likes to sing and draw. She is a very fond and loving child. She loves her grandparents very much. She said in her tiny words if she grows up and has job, she will buy a car for her grandfather so that they will not have to walk far to go anyplace that they want. A 6 years old child who has dream for her grandparents, but she does not have any idea if it will become real when she grows up. Wish there will be someone to help Donna Mae to fulfill her dreams. ID: 72 Birthday 2004-10-04 Village: Binayuyo Auxterio Marcelino is 3 years old. His mother is a housekeeper who takes care of her two children. His father is a farmer and at the same time is very active in making improvements in the village, especially their school. Their house is made of bamboo and a metal roof. They get their water from the water tank that comes from the spring in the village. Auxterio likes to play army toys which somebody gave to him, and he said he wants to be in the army someday. Auxterio is always barefooted in his house on the floor made of soil. He will have on shoes occasionally. His parents need to feed him three times a day because he has a health problem. Even though he has that, it?s not enough because of a lack of food nutrients. He needs support vitamins and balanced food nutrients. ID: 73 Birthday 2001-09-21 Village: Binayuyo Charisse Caithleen Francisco is 6 years old and will be going to school this year. The day care is near to her house. She is very excited to go to school because she wants to be a teacher someday, as she always plays with her playmates in the village. Her mother is a housekeeper who takes care of her three children. Her father Richard is a farmer and a part- time laborer. Their house is made of bamboo and metal roof. They use firewood for their cooking. They get their water in the water tank near the house. Charisse, as the eldest of the family, helps her mom in doing light chores like washing dishes. Charisse wears a dress in the morning and she will change it every other day. Like other children in the village, she has not enough clothes to wear. Nice foods are very seldom on their table. Their normal foods are rice, fish and vegetables. But most of the time one pound of noodles and half pounds of rice are meals for this family of five. ID: 74 Birthday 1998-07-07 Village: Binayuyo Liezel Aguilar is 9-years old and will be in grade IV this coming school year. She needs to walk for almost 45 minutes to get to her school. She likes to read, and she is very industrious in doing her homeworks. Her Mother is a housekeeper who takes care of her 5 children. Her father Randy is a farmer part-time and a construction worker. He does his best to earn for his family, but because of their poor condition he can't get much to his family. Their house is made of bamboo and wood for their wall and a metal roof. It is not yet finished because of lack of materials. Liezel the eldest child is a very good daughter who does her best to help her mom with house chores. ID: 75 Birthday 1999-06-18 Village: Binayuyo Maritess Agustino is an 8-year old little girl who lives in one of the villages here in Antipolo. She will be in grade II this coming school year. She needs to walk for almost 30 minutes just to get to school. She is second from the eldest of six siblings. Her mom is a housekeeper who take care of her children. Her father works as a part-time carpenter and a charcoal maker and earns $4 a day. Their regular meals are tomato tops, rice with water and sugar. Their house is made of bamboo and sacks for a wall. Their bed is made of bamboo which they also use for their dining. Maritess helps her mom in doing some house chores because her mom is pregnant and will deliver a baby soon. After helping in the house, she will see to it that she studies her lesson for the next day at school. Maritess?s dream is to be educated and have a job someday because she said she wants to help her father to earn money so they can buy lots of food and clothes for her brother and sister. The dream of a mature little girl who said she did not know if this will happen in the future. We do not know what will happen but God knows. ID: 76 Birthday 2003-03-06 Village: Dumpsite Melissa Abay-Abay is 4-years old and always wants to play, just like other childen. She plays with toys made of wood which her father made for her, and sometimes she plays with her younger brother. She likes to eat apples which are seen very seldom on their table. She wears rubber slippers most of the time, but if her slipper breaks, her mom will get sme other kind of old slipper so that she has something to wear on her feet. Their normal meals are fish and rice, and the nicest meal that they have is noodles and vegetables. Melissa would like to have a nice doll which her mom and dad can't afford to buy for her. Her father earns $5.25/day as a construction worker to support six persons in the family. Her mother sometimes helps her father by selling candles in the church in town. Their house is made of scrap metal and wood just to make a shade for living. They don't have a concrete floor which makes Melissa's feet muddy when it rains. ID: 77 Birthday 2002-10-10 Village: Dumpsite Michael Combati is 5 years old. His mother Letty is a housewife who takes cares of her 5 kids. Their house is made up of scrap can oil that makes as there walls.. and the floors are dirt, they live near the used plastic that is not good for the health of this boy. Michael is a good boy, he is a very obedient especially to all old people. Michael is the2nd to the youngest.His father works as a laborer in manila where he will stay only on Saturday because he wants to save money from the expensive transportation. Michael dream is to have a good car toy which he do not have before, his parents can not afford to buy it. His parents know that there will be time that Lord will provide everything fro them by always Pray. ID: 78 Birthday 2003-11-27 Village: Admiral J.M Harley Tenorio is 5 years old who is in kindergarten. he is the youngest of siblings, he has 2 sister, he likes to play ball and toy car, he likes to eat egg.. and vegetables. Meat and fruits are very seldom in their table. he is a very friendly kid who always want to play with his playmates in the village. In School he wants to get up early and go early in school and very attentive of what the teachers lesson. After school he will do his assignments first before he play. His mother is a housekeeper who takes care of him and his two sisters. His father is a driver. His father want to give the best for his youngest kid, he wants to JM to finished her study because he knows that the kid is very talented. In their condition he did not know how to let the kid finish school but in God nothing is impossible that is what his father said. ID: 107 Birthday 1995-04-20 Village: Admiral Maybel Combati is 11 years old and in Grade IV. She is second to the eldest. Her mother is a housekeeper who takes care of five kids. Her father works as a construction workers and earns $4.50 a day. Her house is very small ? 10 feet x10 feet, and includes a dining, living room, and bedroll in one. You can imagine how seven people move in a small place. The floor is soil, so when it rains water leaks from the roof. It?s the same kind of living as others in the neighborhood in the village. Maybel is a talented girl who has a high grade in Pilipino. She helps doing the household chores like washing dishes and taking care of her small sister. Her mom helps her father by getting things in the garbage that they can sell in the junk shop. With the small amount of money she earns, it helps buy food so they can eat their meal everyday. Maybel Combati wants to be a teacher when she grows up. With five kids in the family, she doesn?t know if she can fulfill her dream, but through prayers her parents will do everything to send them to school. Maybel is very active in Mission, and she always attends the Bible study and is a very good girl who wants to learn. ID: 81 Birthday 2001-03-03 Village: Admiral Carlo Navarro is 6 years old and in Grade I. He needs to walk for almost 45 minutes from his house to school. He is always barefooted while playing. His feet are always dusty. He only wears shoes when he is in school and he uses only one pair of shoes a year. Most of his meals consist of dried fish and rice, sometimes vegetables. Meat and fruits are very seldom on their table. His mother is a housekeeper who takes care of seven children. His father is a construction worker who earns $5.31 per day. Their house is made of wood. He is always playing. His dream is to be a policeman someday and when he grows up and has money he will buy food for his family. A Grade I school boy who has a dream that he hopes will be true someday. ID: 82 Birthday 1998-12-11 Village: Admiral Angelica Piamonte is 8 years old and in Grade II. She walks for almost 45 minutes from her house to school. She will use her old shoes when going to school and when they are broken she will use a rubber slipper as some of the kids in the village do. Her mother is a housekeeper who takes care of her four kids. Her father is a construction worker in Manila who earns $ 8 per day. He stays at the construction site to save on transportation. Angelica?s house is made of a metal roof and their walls and windows are made of wood. She likes to read her school books and she play dolls with her playmates. When she grows up she wants to be a teacher because she wants to be like her teacher. ID: 85 Birthday 1999-12-16 Village: Admiral Arnel Romero Jr. is 7 years old. His father is an operator who needs to work far from the family for a week in Manila. Sometimes his mother sells biscuits to help with their everyday expenses. He has three brothers and two sisters. He attends Grade I and walks almost 2 km. to reach the school. His house is made of some scrap metals for their walls and scrap ply wood on the side walls. They use firewood for cooking. Arnel likes to write and draw. He wants to be a pilot someday. Arnel Romero Jr. and his mother are also active in Sunday service and other activities in Mission. ID: 86 Birthday 1998-11-17 Village: Admiral Reynalyn Rabulan is 8 years old and in Grade II. She needs to walk for almost 45 minutes from her house to school. She likes to dance and her favorite sport is Chinese garter. She likes to eat noodles which is usually on their table. Her favorite fruit, which she seldom gets to eat, is an apple. She wears her old shoes to school. Her mother is housekeeper who takes care of five children. Her father is a laborer. Her house is made of bamboo in the kitchen and the walls and a metal roof. They use firewood for cooking. ID: 87 Birthday 2002-01-27 Village: Admiral Merc Kenneth Peralta is a Male 5 yrs old last January,His Mother is House Keeper who taking care of 3 kids, His Father is a Laborer he earned $ 4.68 per day, His House made up metal roof and and the wall are concrete, they lived there with his aunties family because they do not have their own house which he always tells us that someday they will have a big house because he will build a house for his mom and dad,which is amazing to hear from a 5 years old,On his age he always wants to play in the afternoon, most of my visit at the area where he lives he always there to greet and say hi, He is a very good and obedient boy ID: 88 Birthday 2002-11-13 Village: Admiral Noimy Melanes is 5 years old. She likes to play. Because she doesn?t have toys, she will play hide and seek or jump rope with her playmates. She would like to have a nice doll. She wears rubber slippers but sometimes none. She does not change her clothes very often because she has only 6-10 pairs of clothes which included her special dress. If you compare it, it is only a house dress for the richest kid. Her mother is housekeeper who takes care of three children. Her father is a construction worker who does not earn much for the family. Her house is made of wood and some sacks, and there is a metal roof. They use firewood for cooking. ID: 89 Birthday 2000-02-26 Village: Binayuyo Marilyn Felisario is 7 years old and is in Grade II. She needs to walk for almost 45 minutes to get to school. It?s really hard for this girl to do every day but she does it because she wants to go to school and get educated. She likes to play with her friends with Chinese garter, or jump rope, which is normal for the girls in the village to play. She wears a rubber slipper and shoes in school. On her free time she helps her mom in doing house chores and gets water from the tank in the village. She walks 1 km. from her house to school. Can you imagine the hard walk a 7-year old child must make just to be educated. Her mother stays in the house to take care of her younger brother and also they plant some vegetables at the back of their house because her father sometimes has no job. Marilyn wants to be a nurse someday. She said ?I want my mom to experience a good life when I am big enough and have a job.? What a nice thought from a young child. ID: 90 Birthday 2000-05-17 Village: Binayuyo Freshlyn Mae Castor is 7 years old and in Grade I. She needs to walk for almost 45 minutes to go school, even on rainy days. She does this because she wants to be educated and become a nurse someday. She likes to take care of her parents and other people in the village. Her mother needs to stay in the house to take care of her three children. Her father is a farmer who earns on a commission basis. Her house is made of bamboo and the roof is metal. ID: 92 Birthday 2000-04-15 Village: Sitio Pantay John Michael Buenviaje is 7 years old and in Grade I. He needs to walk 20 minutes from house to school. His mother is housekeeper who takes care of seven kids and his father collects plastics and anything that they can sell to the junk shop. John gets water at the deep well but needs to walk for 15 minutes just to get there. His house is made of wood and has a metal roof. John Michael likes to play ball with his friend. His favorite subject is reading. At an early age he learned how to work in the house while his mother was at the river washing their clothes. His inspiration is his mom. He wants to be educated, and when he grows up he wants to give his all money to his mom so they can buy things that they did not have when he was small. Amazing thoughts from a 7-year-old boy. ID: 94 Birthday 1999-11-01 Village: Dumpsite Kristine Lipon is 8 years old and in Grade II. Her mother is a housewife who takes care of her five children. Her father is a welder who earns $5.25 a day. Kristine has three sisters and one brother. Her house is made of used metal oil can and some bamboo. They get their water at the well for washing dishes and washing clothes, but for cooking and drinking water they need to walk up the hill for almost 20 minutes. Kristine walks most of the time wearing flip flops to go to school. Most of the time her meal before school is rice mixed with sugar and water. Her family normally eats two times a day, but sometimes only once a day. This girl has never known what a hamburger and fries taste like, or even a soda. Kristine Lipon is a very nice and obedient girl, and you will see her smile when she approaches you. ID: 95 Birthday 1996-03-02 Village: Dumpsite Manilyn Itang is 10 years old and in Grade V. She needs to walk 45 minutes to get to school. Her mother is a housewife who had a sari-sari store. Her father is a carpenter and who is a chairman in the village. Manilyn is the youngest. She has two sisters who have there own families. Manilyn loves to dance and sing. She also likes to go school and her mother said that she has never been absent from school, in spite of the hard walk. Her house is made of a metal roof and used oil can. They get their water at the well for washing dishes and washing clothes. The water for drinking is up the hill and they need to walk for 15 minutes to get it. Manilyn is a good and talented girl and her mother wants to give her a good future, but how can they? They do not know, because of the condition of their lifestyle. Manilyn wants to be a nurse someday because she wants to know how to take care of her parents when they get old. It is amazing that this girl has a dream for herself and her family, but as she always said to me, she always prays that her dreams will come true someday. ID: 96 Birthday 2001-01-30 Village: Admiral Christina Tarrubal is 6 years old and in Grade I at Cambridge Elementary School. She walks 30 minutes from her house to school. Daughter of Amalia Tarrubal and Bennie Tarrubal, her mother is a laundry woman. If she is not doing laundry, she is taking care of her six children. Her mother is separated from her father. Her step-father is Philip Velasco. Their house is made of wood on the walls and a metal roof. They need fire wood for cooking. Christina wants to help her mother do laundry. She wants to be a nurse someday because she says ?a nurse helps the doctor to take care of the patient.? If she has money she will buy clothes for her mother. She and her mother are also active in Bible study Service and other activities. ID: 97 Birthday 1997-09-08 Village: Admiral Chris Jun Vargas is a ten year old boy who is in Grade IV. He walks for almost 45 minutes to get to school. There is a means of transportation, but they don't have money so he needs to walk. Being the oldest of the family, he helps his mom do house chores when he is free from school. His mother helps the family by collecting plastic scrap, used cans and other things that they can sell to the junk shop to add to their everyday needs. She also takes care of five children. His father is a construction worker who earns $8 per day. His house is made of a metal roof as are some walls. Others are made of wood. In his free time on weekends Chris likes to play ball with his friends. He wants to be a doctor someday because he wants to help people in the village. If he is able to have money when he grows up, he wants to buy food and a nice house for his family. A 10 year old boy who always thinks of his family above his personal needs. ID: 98 Birthday 1998-09-01 Village: Admiral Carmela Tandoy is 9 years old and in Grade III. She is the oldest. Her mother is a housekeeper who takes care of two children. Her father is a landscaper with a minimum $7.44 per day. Carmela likes English. She wants to help her mother clean her small house and wash dishes. Her house is made of a metal roof as are some of their walls and some others are made of sacks. As can you see at the back of Carmela, some are made of bamboo. Carmela wants to be a nurse someday to help her parents. She is a girl who always insists on doing good things for her mom and dad. If she is able to have money in the future, she will give it to support her parents. ID: 108 Birthday 2001-07-01 Village: Admiral John Mart Cator is 6 years old and just began school. His mother is housekeeper who is taking care two kids, and his father is a construction worker who earns $5 a day. Their house is made of scrap wood as is the walls, and there are three security bamboo bars at their door because the mother is worried that the baby might fall from their floor outside. John Mart helps his mom by taking care of the baby while his mother is washing their clothes. This boy helps his mom get water from the water tank 10 feet from his house and he will put it in the water container. This boy, at his young age, knows how to handle his task unlike kids in the city who just know how to play and ask for money from their parents. ID: 100 Birthday 2001-02-22 Village: Admiral Joseph Tenorio is 6 years old and in Grade I. His mother is a housekeeper and she has a little store that she said helps them in their everyday expenses. She also takes care of her five children. Joseph?s father is a construction worker. Joseph likes reading. His house is made of wood and scrap metal at the side of sitio Admiral. Most of their things in the house are donated by his employer. ID: 101 Birthday 2001-06-06 Village: Admiral Jhon Louie Tonacao is 6 years old and in kindergarten. His mother is a housekeeper who is taking care of seven kids. His father is a construction worker and just left them a couple of months ago. His mother says that she will work hard to be a mother and father to her kids. His brother has a job most of the time and helps his mom. Their house is made of wood and metal for their walls and roof. They use firewood in cooking. Jhon Louie uses rubber slipper most of the time. They eat rice with noodles as their normal meals. John Louie never had a nice toy. He is satisfied watching kids playing ball. Jhon Louie would likes to have a Superman toy which he looks at in a magazine. ID: 103 Birthday 2000-02-14 Village: Admiral Jenny Rodrigo a cute 7 year old girl who is very obedient. She is in Grade II and, like others, she needs to walk for almost 45 minutes to get to school. She wears shoes and slippers to school. She would like to have a nice bag for school because she used an old bag last year. Her mother is a housekeeper who takes care of three children. Her father is a construction worker. Her house is made of a metal roof and some walls are made of wood. Jenny likes to sing and dance. Her dream is to be a teacher someday. When she grows up and has money, she will buy clothes and a lot of food for her mom and dad. ID: 104 Birthday 1997-08-17 Village: Admiral Mc. Jayson Comabig is 10 years old and in Grade V. His mother is a housekeeper who takes care of two kids. His father is a tricycle driver, who earns on a commission basis. Mac is a very good child which he always on what his mom told him. Mac on his early age knows how to play electric guitar and he knows how to sing. He is always in the church where he is a member of the band and he is playing drums. He is always in the Church on his free time and try to learn all kinds of instruments. On his smile and all things that he is doing he did not mind his condition where he has a problem on his behind. His behind do not have hole, there is a hole on the side of it where he can urine but its not normal. MC Jayson wants to become a doctor someday because he wants to help sick people on his area as he always in the Church he knows whom he obey. His Lord and his parents where if he grow up and have money he will help his parents to have a nice house. But His dream will be given by the Lord thru prayers. ID: 109 Birthday 1994-05-02 Village: Admiral Sherlyn Bulambao is 13 years old and in Grade V. She walks for almost 30-45 minutes from her house to school, She is tall for her age. Her mother works as a housekeeper. Her father is a laborer. She always helps her mom by doing household chores like washing clothes and cleaning the house, and after those things she will do her assignments. Her dream is to be a nurse someday. She wants to help people who need care. If in time she has enough money, she wants to buy her mom clothes, because she wants her mom to have nice clothes to wear. And also for her father. Her house is made of some wood scrap, metal scrap and anything that they can use to build their house. ID: 111 Birthday 1997-11-28 Village: Admiral Irish Apable is a 10-year old girl in Grade II. She walks one km. from her house to school. Her mother is a housekeeper and her father is a laborer. Her house made of wood and metal. In school, Irish took three years of Grade I because she is a slow learner in reading and writing. She should be in grade III because of her age, but because of her low ability she needed to repeat grade 1. In our conversation Irish told me this coming school year she will study harder. She wants to be a nurse someday because she wants to help other people. She will try the best she can to study harder to fulfill her dreams. ID: 112 Birthday 2001-07-29 Village: Admiral Charlie is a 6-year old boy who is in Grade I. He walks 1 km from his house to school. His mother is housekeeper and his father is a laborer. His house has a metal roof, and there is a big rock inside their house. They don?t have money to get rid of that rock. If you can see the picture the rock is in the middle of the house. They get their water from the delivery truck that goes to the village everyday. Charlie and his mom are always in Bible study to learn more about their spiritual life. ID: 113 Birthday 2002-02-18 Village: Binayuyo Kimberly Garcia is 5 years old and has started kindergarten. She is the second of three siblings. Her mom is a housekeeper and her father is a charcoal maker who earns $ 4 a day. Sometimes her father accepts a part- time job from his friend, who are willing to help them. Her house is made of bamboo, and the roof is scrap metal. Kim, as her friends call her, has a good voice, but she wants to improve. But her parents don?t have enough money to put her in voice lessons. She wants to be a singer someday. At her young age she knows how to do some household chores. Kimberly is a very sweet little girl and every time you see her, you will see her nice smile. ID: 114 Birthday 1998-03-09 Village: Admiral Emily Abiera is 8-years old, and she will be in grade III this coming school year. She walks for almost 45 minutes from house to school. Her grandmother is her guardian. Emily is a very shy girl because she has a lot of questions in her mind, such as why doesn't she have parents like other kids around. Her grandmother is hard of hearing because of the condition of her ear and she does everything for Emily. She sews rags and sells them by walking and offering them house to house. Emily helps her grandmother by taking care of her auntie who also is sick. Her auntie is a Mongoloid, and Emily helps her bathe and gets her food when she is not in school. Her grandma is a very nice lady and does everything for her granddaughter Emily. The grandmother said she holds her faith in God, that there will someday be somebody who will help her grandaughter to fulfill her dreams. Emily wants to be a teacher because she wants to teach kids who don?t have enough money to spend in going to school. She said also that when she finishes her studies and has enough money, she will buy nice clothes for her grandmother who does hard work for her and her auntie. ID: 122 Birthday 2004-12-14 Village: Binayuyo Bryan Saspa is a 3 years old kid, a cute little boy but very shy to other people, its because he only see and know is his family. As other kids on his neighbor he moves only on their small surrounding, he never experience go to malls and other luxuries that most spoiled kids like him, he eat rice and vegetables but most of the time he eat congee with sugar,he drinks water with sugar as his milk. When i saw him personally his right arm has no energy in handling things, carelessness of the nurse when she is the baby is the cause of what he is experiencing today. Her mom did complain but there is no result because they do not have money and power to fight for their kid. Bryan likes playing toys, his toys is a soil that he molds, a piece of wood that he will pull and imagine its a toy car. He really likes to have a real toy but his parents can not afford to give it to him. I wish there will somebody their who really give an attention to this condition of Bryan. ID: 126 Birthday 2004-07-25 Village: Binayuyo Hazel Ann Arroyo is 3 years-old and, like other children in the village, she plays with friends. Routine foods that she eats are rice with noodles and vegetables which her mom gets at the back of their house. She drink milk, but it?s very seldom. In this village you will not see hotdogs, hamburgers, cereals. The only food that you can see and that Hazel eats are mostly biscuits. Even a loaf bread is very, very seldom sees and eaten. She wears rubber slippers, but most of the time she walks barefooted. Her mother is a housekeeper who takes care of two children. Her father is a farmer. Her house made of bamboo and some walls are made of wood and sacks that cover the kitchen. They use firewood when cooking. ID: 128 Birthday 2004-02-15 Village: Binayuyo Mckinley Ponce is a three year old, the oldest of two boys. Mac, as he is called by his mom and dad, is a smart kid. He lives near the river and his mom plants some vegetables while he takes care of his younger brother. His father uses his bicycle as a seller of ice and ice cream. He earns on a commission basis. The way they live is after he gets his commission he buys their food to eat. Most days he earns $2. If there is nothing to sell, his father helps his mom in planting. Mckinley?s father is a very good man. Anything he can do to earn, he will do for his family. ID: 130 Birthday 2003-02-07 Village: Dumpsite Marisa Bongares is a typical 4 year old who likes to play, but she is not the same as the child in the city who has a nice doll and luxury girl toys. She is the second from the eldest of four kids. She likes to play with her village friend with toys like getting leaves and a stick that they will make as doll house, and sometimes they will mold mud to make a house. Her house is made of scrap oil cans, mixed with sacks and there is a metal roof. Most of the time Marisa is barefooted ? it?s very seldom that she wears shoes. Her father works as a construction worker with earnings of $5 a day, but not on a regular basis. Marisa is a nice little girl who would love to have a nice big doll someday. She is a little girl who has never been to eat a burger at McDonald?s. She is a little girl who is in need from somebody who will give her a little attention. ID: 131 Birthday 2002-12-07 Village: Dumpsite Larra De la Cruz is 5 years old and the second to the eldest, but unfortunately her sister died of diarrhea last year. She has a baby sister. Her father does not have a job so he stays in the house to take care of the baby and her mother works by selling vegetables in the market on a commission basis. Sometimes they have good meals, but most of the time they do not have anything to eat. There was a time when they could get a fish on the floor in the market just to have something to eat with the rice. This little girl sometimes goes with her mom in the market. Larra likes to play dolls but she will just fold a piece of cloth and imagine it is a doll. She likes to hear stories and is a very obedient child. God speed for this child and her family. ID: 132 Birthday 2003-03-01 Village: Dumpsite Vincent Lipon is 5 years old. A shy boy, he will give you a simple stare when you visit him in the village. He plays barefooted in the dusty playground and a toy is a molded mud ball. Sometimes he runs with his barefooted playmates. Very seldom have I seen him wear shoes. One time I saw his family eat rice with sugar and water as their lunch. That is their normal meal; it is very seldom this boy has meat. Vincent never eats a nice meal, or has a nice toy. Vincent is third from the eldest of five children. His father works in construction and earns $5.25 a day but not regularly, so his mother helps by selling vegetables from house to house and earns on a commission basis. His parents are a very good and God- fearing couple who want to give their children a good future. They do not stop praying that God will provide their needs. ID: 135 Birthday 1998-03-14 Village: Admiral Geraldine Lepiten is 9 years old and in Grade III. She needs to walk for almost 45 minutes from her house to her school. In spite of tough walking in the heat and the rain, she does it because she wants to be educated. Her favorite subject is math. After school, she will rest for a while, eat and because she is the eldest of the family she will do most of the household chores, like cleaning the house, washing dishes and taking care of her brothers and sisters. Her father is a driver who earns $4 a day, and if there is no jeep to drive, he will do extra jobs like construction. Her mother needs to take care of her baby sister who is 5 months. Her dream is to be a nurse someday so that she can have money to help her parents. The first thing she wants to buy when she has enough money is food for her family because now, she said, they need to cut the fish in half so she and her sister have something on their rice. Geraldine is very attentive and a good girl, which is very seldom seen in rural areas like this. ID: 136 Birthday 1999-09-08 Village: Admiral Jennylyn Agsoy is a 7-year old child who will be in Grade II this coming school year. If they have money, her mom lets Jenny ride in a jeep to go to school, but most of the time Jenny needs to walk for almost 45 minutes. Her father works as a construction worker who earns $5 a day. Jenny is the youngest of two children in the family. After school, her mother lets her rest from walking and gives her food and has her take a nap. After rest she lets Jenny play, but after she plays she helps her mom in doing their household chores. At night, her mother will see to it that Jenny finishes her assignment and teaches her to pray before bed. Jenny?s dream is to be a teacher someday; she said she wants to teach kids like she does when they play, as she is the teacher. She also wants to give all her money to her mother when she is big enough and has earnings. At this time, her family needs to move to the back of their neighbor?s house because it?s really dangerous to stay at their house because the floor will start to fall because the wood foundation of their house was hit by the last storm and their house was damaged. Jenelyn Agsoy loves to dance, and her favorite subject is math. She is also always concerned for her mom who she gives water or food to if she sees her mom doing hard work in their small house. Sometimes when her mother cried because she does not have money for her food in school, Jenny will just say I can eat a piece of bread. In spite of their condition this girl?s priority in her life is to have an education. We wish somebody would give attention to this little girl?s dream. ID: 137 Birthday 2000-02-16 Village: Admiral Alexander Pangilinan is 7 years old and the oldest of two children. He is in Grade I and walks for 30 minutes to get to school. Sometimes he has only slippers to wear. His favorite subject is Filipino. After school he eats lunch and he plays. When he finishes playing, he will stay in the house to read books and do his assignments. He wants to be a doctor because he wants to help the people who are poor like him. I told him that he needs to study hard to become a doctor and he told me yes. If he had money he would buy clothes for his mother and father and younger sister because he said that they don?t have enough clothes. When I look at him I see an innocent look. Maybe he doesn?t have any idea how his dreams will come true. ID: 140 Birthday 1997-09-29 Village: Admiral Chorlyn Asual is 8-years old and in grade II . She needs to walk for almost 30 minutes from house to school. Her father died a couple of years ago and her mother needs to work far from her so grandmother is the one who takes care of Chorlyn. Her grandma told me that at first it?s really hard for her to take care of the child because she is unemployed, but because of her granddaughter she did a lot of things to earn money just to survive. Sometimes she will wash clothes for some rich people in town and sometimes she sells delicacies in the village. Chorlyn Asual likes to read books. Most of the time she will stay in the house to do her homework. After doing homework, she will play with her playmate in the village or she will help her grandma in doing chores. She wants to be a nurse someday because she wants to take care of her grandma. At night before bed she told me that she did not forget to pray. Chorlyn is a very shy girl. But she has the same dreams as the other children in the village. ID: 141 Birthday 1995-08-25 Village: Admiral Marwin Pastrana, an 11 year old graduating student, is the oldest of the family. His father is a construction worker near his home who earns $6 a day. In his free time, Marwin reads books, and does drawings. He likes to draw cartoons, and sometimes he draws from his imagination. He also likes playing chess. In class his favorite subject is science, and like most of the kids, he has a dream that he wants to go to college and study medicine. He wants to be a surgeon someday, and he wants to help people who are poor like his family. When he becomes a surgeon, he wants to have a house for his family. He will do his best to fulfill his dreams. At his age he has some talents that did not grow because of his family?s condition. But he is studying on his own, using his special awards drawing kit. He said that when he grows up and has money the first thing that he will do is buy materials and build a home, and he will see to it that he will give enough money to his mom to buy their food. This child is an inspiration to most of the kids, that in spite of their condition, he is doing his best to develop his talents. He has a dream, that at this time he does not know how it will happen but he said ?I will pray and pray so the Lord will hear me.? ID: 142 Birthday 1999-12-03 Village: Admiral Geron Herbabuena is 7 years old and in Grade I. He needs to walk for almost 45 minutes to get to school. His mother works as a laundry woman, and his father works as a mason at a construction site. Most of his time after school is with his mom at her work. This child is active in Bible study. He is always attentive and knows how to pray. At his early age he has a dream to fulfill. He wants to be a sea man because he likes to ride on ships, and when his dream comes true, he will give his money to his mother to buy all she wants. This family is in the same condition as others in the village. Their house of 10 feet x10 feet includes a kitchen, dining and bedroom all in one. It?s really amazing to see this child who, even though he doesn?t have any idea of what will happen to his family in the future, still has plans and ambitions to get his dreams. This in spite of the fact that he doesn?t know where he will get the money he needs to support this ambition. Dreaming is free and everybody can have it. ID: 143 Birthday 2001-10-22 Village: Admiral Angelo Belmonte is 6 years old, but he is not yet in school because he is a special child. His mom said that she is always at his side because there was a time when he runs out of the house to play but most of the time he hurts other kids. She said that this boy might need attention and this condition of his is the same that happened to her other kids. On my observation, this child needs some attention from a specialist. They live in a small house with soil floor. His father works as a construction laborer who earns $2 a day. His father stays in the house on Sunday only because he needs to stay on the construction site to save money from going back and forth to work. Angelo is a nice little boy but because of his condition, he cannot do what the normal kids do. ID: 145 Birthday 2000-01-21 Village: Admiral Leslie Cardino is a 6-year old Grade I student. She is second to the eldest. She needs to walk for almost 45 minutes to get to her school, just as other children in her village. Her mother stays in the house to look after them and her father is a driver who earns $5 a day. Leslie is a very obedient child, and at her age she can do house chores such as cleaning the house by sweeping the floor. Only 30 minutes of playing is enough for her because she always wants to study her assignments. She wants to be a teacher someday and teach free so that she can help kids who don?t have money to support them for school. She is good in school. As a matter of fact, she was a first honor when she was in kindergarten. She got an award as best in Pilipino subject. The thing that I was amazed at about Leslie is that she is very close to God, and I see her praying while we are praying in Bible study. She prays to God that someday her dreams of being a teacher will be fulfilled in spite of the condition of her family. ID: 147 Birthday 1999-09-06 Village: Admiral Irene Castillo is 7 years old and in Grade I. She walks for almost 30 minutes to get to her to school. Her mother is a housewife who takes care of the children. Her father is an electrician near the village and earns $3 per day. Irene, like other kids, is fond of playing, but most of the time she is always with her mom collecting waste products or digging metal craft in some places that have abandoned buildings. Irene wants to become a teacher someday because she likes teaching kids. When asked if somebody gave her money, what would be her first thing she would buy, she said she wants to buy food for her family because most of the time they have to share small fish and rice for the meal. Most of the time this family eats twice a day, unlike other families that eat five times a day. There house is made of used metal roof as are the walls. Also the upper walls are made up of sacks and some scrap and when you go inside the house you see old curtains that come from the dump. The kitchen, dining room and bedroom is all in one. Irene has a dream that somebody someday might give her support to fulfill her dreams. ID: 148 Birthday 2000-04-07 Village: Admiral Ricky Zabal is 7 years old and in Grade I. Like other children in the village, he walks for almost 45 minutes to get to school. His father works as a driver, but he works only three times a week. His mom works by collecting scrap so they can sell it in a junk shop to have money to buy food. Ricky is the youngest of the siblings. Their house is made of cartons and there are sacks on the walls inside. There is a big hole inside, and when it rains, the water comes inside the house. They live on a soil floor and there are five parts of the house. Ricky has a dream that someday if he has money he wants to buy a jeep for his father and clothes for his mom. He said that he wants to go to school and finish his studies to have money to fulfill his dreams. A dream and plan that comes to a child, but he does not know how it will come true. ID: 149 Birthday 2001-07-15 Village: Dumpsite Louie Medalla is 6 years old. He is second from the oldest of four siblings. Unfortunately his sister died two years ago because of drowning in a bucket of water. Louie is a child who likes to play. His happiness is having a small car. His playmate is only his brother and some cousins who live in the neighborhood. His house is surrounded by trees. His father works as a construction worker, and his mom takes care of them. In her spare time she peels the skin off cashew nut and earns on a commission basis. They live in a 6 foot x 5 foot house that includes their dining and bedroom in one and a place for their personal clothes. Louie is a very pale child because he does not have the vitamins that he needs. ID: 150 Birthday 2001-06-09 Village: Dumpsite John Mark Ponpon is 6 years old and just began school. He has two brothers. His father works as a mason and earns $3.50 per day. His mother is a housekeeper and sometimes she collects plastic scraps and waste metals that can be sold to the junk shop to help with their everyday needs. Most of the time if John?s mother is not in the house he takes care of his brother. Their house is made of oil containers. In the summer season in the Philippines ,you can imagine how hard it is for this child and other children of this village to face the heat of the sun. There is no electric fan that can ease the heat. When you enter his house, you can see first the place for cooking. Inside the house they will use it as their dining area, place to stay and also a bedroom, all in one. This boy has a dream ? to be a policeman someday. He said in his little voice that if he has money when he grows up, he will buy a house for his family. And lots and lots of food for his brother. A dream that he does not have any idea how it is going to come true. ID: 151 Birthday 2002-08-05 Village: Admiral Aaron dometita is a 6 years old boy, and he is in kinder garten, its near from their house. In the first day of school, he was very excited because he wants to go to school earlier, He likes to write and draw something, he wants to draw house, family, flower and all things that he saw around him.... He is also active in reciting in every lesson in the school., his mom said. Her favorite is toy car, and his favorite foods are fish , vegetables and bread, his mom always gives that food because it very nutrition and meat are very seldom in the table. He also loves to sing and dance.. Aaron is very thin child because he did not drink nutritionist milk because they have lack of money to buy it, He is a very good child who likes to go to school and finish. ID: 152 Birthday 2002-05-02 Village: Binayuyo Luise Andre Agustino is 5 years old and is attending kindergarten this school year. Luise has three sisters and two brothers. His mother is a housekeeper and his father is a tricycle driver who earns $ 2.12 per day. His mother helps his father by planting some vegetables and sells them to the big market, but sometimes if there is no harvest, she will stay in the house and take care of the children. This boy is a very shy child. He always plays with brothers and sisters and his cousins. Their only playground is in front of their house and sometimes in the shade of the tree. The house that he lives in is made of bamboo walls and the roof is metal. They put old tires on their roof so it will add weight so that it may control the wind when there is typhoon. At the back of their house, the walls are made of sacks. Inside the house you can see a soil floor. Luise is just like any other child and would like to have nice toys, nice clothes, a good education and a good future. But in their poor life conditions, I do not know if his dream will happen. Faith is always on my mind that it will happen because God knows what is the best for this little boy and God provides. ID: 153 Birthday 2001-05-28 Village: Binayuyo Myrene Estrada is 6 years old and began school this year. Like other children in her village, she walks three minutes from her house to school. She has two brothers. Her father works as a construction worker who earns $ 4.25 per day. Her mother is a housewife who takes care of her siblings. Her house is made of bamboo walls, and when you walk inside the house you will see the soil flooring and when you look up to roof, you will see the holes. You can imagine the water that leaks in when it rains. On the upper part of the walls you will see the waste metal that covers the upper wall of the house. They use firewood in cooking. Just like other kids in the village, Myrene is a very happy little girl who has a dream of going to school and being educated. ID: 155 Birthday 2000-08-24 Village: Admiral Rhea Mae Sanchez is a 7 yrs old she will send to school this coming June at a 30 Minutes Walk from her house to school her Mother is a plain Housewife who taking care of her sister and doing all the household chores and sometimes she is doing something that she know that she can earn money that will helps her husband, her Father is a Construction Worker at Bulacan which is 6 hours travel from Antipolo her father needs to stay to the construction site to save money for the transportation he earned $ 5.00 per day, he will stay with his family on Sunday only. Rheamay always wants to play and sometimes draw. Her dreams is to become a Policewoman she wants to protect her Hometown from bad guys, Rhea wants to build a new house for her family when she had enough money when she grow up. Her family's house is made up of more on metal roof as there walls, they do not have concrete floor, there is only 3 division on there house, one is the kitchen, the other half divide in 2 so it will have closet and bedroom, the bed is only a green cloth that put on the flooring, so i am thinking how do they sleep if there is rain and the water come inside of their house. Rhea may dreams may look up to somebody who have great heart to help her in fulfilling her dreams. ID: 156 Birthday 1998-05-12 Village: Admiral Reggie Guarin is 9 years old and in Grade II. He walks almost 30 minutes to get to school. He has two sisters and two brothers. His mother is a housewife who takes care of his younger siblings. His father works as a construction worker and earns $5 a day. Sometimes Reggie is the one who takes care of his brother and sister, as well as helping his mom get water from the water tank 5 minutes away from his house. Their house is made of ply wood scraps that comes from the construction site. You can see the cement stick on the wood on their walls, and their front is made of a wire as their window. Reggie?s dream is to be a policeman someday. If he had money he would give it to his mother to buy food because he said he wants his brother and sister to have food to eat. This boy?s dream is to have a job and get sufficient food for his brother and sister. ID: 157 Birthday 2002-09-12 Village: Admiral Jay Arnon Sinahunon is 4 years old and has one brothers who is a baby. His mother, Arlene, is a housekeeper and his father, Nonito, is a construction worker who ears $5 a day. Jay always plays and sometimes he wants to help his mother do something, but because he is too little to work his mom doesn?t allow him to work in the house. So he just plays with the neighbors who are the same age. Their house is the same as other houses in Admiral ? a metal roof and their walls are scrap woods. Jay would like to be a policeman someday because his uncle is a policeman. ID: 158 Birthday 1995-09-05 Village: Admiral Ladylyn Baguio is a sweet smiling 12 year old girl who is in Grade VI. She needs to walks for almost 30 minutes to go to her school, just like many other kids in the village. If Ladylyn wants to be educated, she needs to walk hard everyday. She likes to sing and dance ? she sings with songs from the radio and sometimes she dances with her girlfriends in the village. Her mother is a housewife who takes care of five children and her father is a carpenter who earns $6 a day. Ladylyn?s dream is to be a nurse someday because a nurse here in the Philippines has many opportunities to go abroad and work. She wants to bring her family out of this village and have a nice place to live. Her house made of scrap wood which her father did and metal is used on their roof. Ladylyn does not know if she will fulfill her dreams, but with faith in God, nothing is impossible. ID: 159 Birthday 1999-03-11 Village: Binayuyo Angela Saspa is an 8 year-old girl in Grade II. She needs to walk 45 minutes from her house to school. Angela is a very smart girl and gets an award in her class. Her favorite subject is Pilipino. She likes to play jump rope and hide and seek with her playmates. Her auntie is the one who is taking care of Angela because her mom has another family. She wants to be a teacher someday. She is a very obedient and prayerful child. She never forgets to pray, especially before she goes to bed. ID: 160 Birthday 2001-06-07 Village: Sitio Pantay Marjorie Dubario is 6 years old and just entered school. This cute shy girl likes to play hide and seek or jump rope with her friends. They use a rubber rope. She plays doll house by using a stick and small wood to make a small house. She plays with her small sister. She eats rice with dried fish or with vegetables which her mom gets on the farm where her father works. Her father is a farmer who earns on a commission basis. Marjorie is third to the eldest of six children. Her house is made of bamboo with unconcrete floor. ID: 161 Birthday 1997-07-19 Village: Admiral Joshua Montecalvo is 9 years old and in Grade II. He walks almost 30 minutes from his house to get to school. His mom works as a helper in a canteen and his father works as a carpenter, so most of the time Joshua is the one who stays in the house to take care of his brother. He works hard doing the household chores. In spite of his parent?s hard work, they do not have enough money for them because they need to pay the loans that they used for hospitalization last year when Joshua was sick and needed to be hospitalized. Joshua is a very quite child. He talks in an obedient manner. His favorite sport is basketball, and he would like to have a nice toy car which he saw on his neighbor?s. He wants to be an engineer someday because he wants to build a nice home for his parents. Building a dream for this child is a challenge for the people who really appreciate the needs of a poor child like him. ID: 163 Birthday 2000-07-21 Village: Admiral Danica Juliano is 6 years old and is in Grade I. She walks for almost 45 minutes just to get to her school. There is means of transportation which is a tricycle, but because her mom needs to save money for her allowance and school expenses, she needs to walk everyday. Danica eats a meal of rice, fish and noodles. In their financial condition Danica has never experienced what it is like to have the nicest dolls, or what a doll house looks like, or what is inside McDonalda. She is a pale little girl. There are five in the family which her father does his best to support by working at a construction firm where he only earns $5 a day. Her mom needs to stay in the house to take care of the children and a baby. Danica has a dream of finishing school and having money to buy things for her mom and dad. This innocent-looking girl has no idea of what her life will be like after 10 years, but because of you she will have a good future, in God?s will. ID: 164 Birthday 1998-06-02 Village: Admiral Laddy Lara is a shy boy who is 9 years old. He is in Grade II, and like other kids in the village he needs to walk for almost 45 minutes to get to school. He wakes up early so he can eat his breakfast which sometimes is rice with salt or a piece of bread and water. After school in the afternoon he will rest for a while and help his mother in getting water which is a 5 minute walk from his house to the water tank in the middle of the village. His father works as a construction worker who earns $5 a day, which is not enough for a normal meal for six members of the family. Laddy likes to play ball, and sometimes chat with his friend in the village. Their house is made of wood scrap, and a metal roof. He wants to grow up fast so he can get a job and buy food for his family. It will happen if there is somebody who will support him in prayers and help, because in faith God provides. ID: 165 Birthday 1999-06-28 Village: Admiral Jhurey Doligon is 7 years old and will in Grade I. This pale-looking child walks for almost 30 minutes to get to his school. He is a very good child and a big help to his mom, who has four children. He gets the water, and does some of the household chores. He also likes to play ball, but because he is really pale most of the time he does not go out to play with the children. Instead, he will play with some kids in the village by flying a kite made up of plastic and scrap threads. He is happy seeing kites fly. Like any family in the village, he depends on her father who works as construction worker and earns $5 a day. Most of the time they will eat twice a day by making breakfast and lunch one meal. Before going to school he has a piece of bread and coffee, and if there is none, he has water. Education is important for each child so his mom does all she can to let him go to school and get an education. Jhurey needs some vitamins so he can have a nice healthy body. A good meal also helps him so his mind will work while he is studying. A good education for this child is the best support that can be given to him. Education will give a good future to every child in the world. ID: 166 Birthday 1999-09-03 Village: Admiral Michael Cator is in Grade II this year, and walks for almost 30 minutes to get to school. He needs to wake up early, tidy up his things, eat a breakfast of bread and coffee and start walking. After school, he goes home and gets some rest. The first thing that he will do is to get water which is near his house and start washing all the dishes that were used at lunch. He was left by his separated parents with his grandmother who gets earnings from gathering scrap metals and plastic and sells it to the junk shop. This boy, at an early age, did hard work in doing all the household chores. In his spare time, he will get his school things and study all his homework because when it gets dark it?s not comfortable for him because there is no electricity in his house. His favorite subject is math, and he likes to play ball with his neighbor friends. He wants to be educated but he said in his tiny voice that his grand mom doesn?t have the ability to give him total support for his education. This boy has a lot of dreams, and it will happen if you will give him help. God provides. ID: 167 Birthday 2000-04-23 Village: Admiral Arnold Dagimon is 7 years old and began school this year. He is the second to the youngest of five children in the family. This boy has a moody attitude, and according to his mom he has tantrums which is not normal for a kid. She does not have an idea if he is sick or not because they did not yet take him to the doctor for a check up because of their financial condition. She works as a seller of fresh fish in the neighboring village and earns only $3 a day, and her husband is sometimes working and sometimes not. If this boy Arnold will go to school this year his mom needs to be with him because of his mind deficiency. She wants him to be in school the same as his brother. Arnold?s only playmate is his sister, because she understands him a lot. May God provide all the needs of this child. ID: 168 Birthday 2003-04-03 Village: Admiral Jeanna Mae Lipon is 4 years old. She is a shy little girl who likes to play with dolls made of rags and play outdoors with her neighbors. She is the oldest of two children, and sometimes she helps her mom look after her baby sister while her mom is doing chores in the house. Jeanna?s father works as a farmer and earns on a commission basis. Their house is made of wood, scrap metal for their roof. They use firewood in cooking, and need to get water from the water tank which is a five minute walk from their house. Jeanna?s normal meal is rice and fish; fruits are very seldom on the table and the only snack that she has is a biscuit. If Jeanna wear clothes in the morning she will change in the afternoon, but sometimes she will not because she does not have enough clothes to wear. She will have new shoes only at Christmas, and sometimes none, but most of the time flip plops is enough for her. ID: 169 Birthday 2002-01-04 Village: Admiral Camela Mandia is a cute 5 year old who always likes to play with her playmates at the village. She also likes to be with her mom because she is the eldest of five children in the family. Camela is a girl who always likes to hum a song while playing with an imaginary doll made by folding her father?s shirt. Her favorite toy is a doll, and a toy house. Most of the time she likes to wear shorts and shirts. Her father works as a construction worker outside of Antipolo, so the family sees him only on Saturday. Their house is made of woods as are their walls, and the roof is metal. She needs to go her neighbors to see cartoons in TV. A A quiet, cute little girl, Camela has an ambition to be a teacher someday but she does not have any idea how it will happen. ID: 170 Birthday 1998-06-19 Village: Admiral Victor Lucenda is 9 years old and in Grade III. He needs to wake up early everyday to clean and eat before he starts his walk for almost 30 minutes to get to school. He is good in school as it shows on his report card. He likes to play basketball with his friends, and sometimes hide and seek with girls and boys in the village. He would like to have a ball of his own. He is a very good son, and helps his mom do household chores like getting water from the water tank in the middle of the village or going on an errand to get something to buy for their meal. He is second to the youngest of the family. His father works as a construction worker who gets only $5 a day. Being a doctor is his dream someday because he wants to help people in the village. Victors dreams will be fulfilled if there is somebody who will help him. ID: 171 Birthday 2002-11-06 Village: Admiral Reynalyn Marcilla is 5 years old, a cute little girl who is in kindergarten. She is the oldest of two children. She is very fond of dolls that she saw on the TV of her neighbors. She would like to have a Barbie doll which her parents cannot afford to buy. She likes playing toys with her cousins. Their toys are made of cans, a piece of wood or something that can make a doll house. In this kind of living condition, children use their imagination to have toys that the rich children have. Her mom stays at home to take care of her and her baby sister while her father works at a construction firm as a mason and earns $4.26 a day. Reynalyn wants to be a nurse. She saw one in a health center and she told her mom that she wants to be a nurse someday, an ambition that she might get if it is in the will of the Lord. ID: 172 Birthday 1999-06-27 Village: Admiral Jessa Non is 7 years old and in Grade I. Like other children in the village, she needs to walk for 30 minutes just to get to her school. She needs to wake up early to do the everyday routine of being a school girl. Jessa, called ?Negra? by some of the children because of her very dark complexion, do not mind what they call her. She will just smile and she is beautiful. Jessa likes to play with her cousins and friends in the village. They like to go up to the hill to get some plants and make a play store. She likes to read. Her mom does the laundry for other people and gets paid a commission in the afternoon so that they can buy food. Her father is sometimes a carpenter, sometimes not. Their house is made of bamboo and wood. She lives in a muddy place where most of the time she walks barefooted. ID: 174 Birthday 2002-07-02 Village: Admiral Timothy James Indaya is 5 years old and the youngest of the family. His house is made of a metal roof and their walls and the other half of the house is made of wood. His father works as a carpenter who earns $4.50 a day. This cute little boy ,who always shouts my name when I visit the village, is a very smart boy. He likes playing kites with his friends, and sometimes they will play with broken balls that they get from the garbage. He is also likes to help his mom get water. Because they are at the top of the village, they need to walk down to the water tank just to get water. He is a very loving son to his mom, and has dreams that when he is old enough he will get a job and give the money that he earns to his mom. ID: 175 Birthday 2000-06-20 Village: Admiral Acelyn Dolontap is 7 years old who is in Grade II. She is a very smart girl and she received an award when she was in kindergarten, and her report card this year is very good. Lyn, as her mom calls her, is a help in doing house chores. Acelyn is the second to the eldest of three. She likes to draw and her favorite subject is math. She is very shy girl but in school she is always attentive to her teacher. She likes to go to school, so her father does his best to get a job for the family, but because of the labor employment here being very poor, sometimes he has sometimes none. In spite of their condition Lyn is very confident that she will be a nurse in the future. She has a lot of dreams. ID: 176 Birthday 2001-12-11 Village: Admiral Laica De La Cruz is 6 years old and is in kindergarten. She needs to walk almost 30 minutes just to get to the school. Laica always plays with her playmates with her rag doll. Her house is made of scrap wood as are the walls, and has a metal roof. Her father works as a vendor and sometimes as a construction worker. Her mom is a housewife who takes care of two children, and Laica is the youngest. Her mom says little Laica likes to sing and she also loves to play nurse with her playmates. She plays it now, but in the future she wants to be a real nurse. If she had money, she would give it to her mom to buy a lot of food. Big dreams for this child in a village where it could happen if in the will of the Lord. ID: 185 Birthday 2003-11-13 Village: Admiral Teresa Besmonte is 4 years old. She is a very shy girl and some other kids are self-conscious in asking her to play. But when you talk to her she will answer you in polite way with a simple smile on her face. She is the second to the youngest of the family. As most of the children, she likes to play doll or jump rope with a little girl that she knows. If she is not playing she will stay in the house with her mom. She also wants to read and write and wants to be ready for her first school year. Her father works in a construction firm on a regular earnings of $4.26 a day, and her mom needs to stay home to look after the children. Her house is made of woods and their roof is metal. Sometimes when it rains, the water from roof leaks because of a big hole in the roof. The regular meal that they have is rice and very seldom do they have meat. ID: 187 Birthday 2003-05-18 Village: Admiral Daniela Espiridion is 4 years old who lives in one of the village here in Antipolo. She would like to have a doll of her own because she borrows dolls from her playmates. She is a very cute little girl whom the village adores. Her father works as a part-time messenger and sometimes a vendor. Daniela is at the middle of the family of three. She likes to dance, and whatever sounds she hears, she will dance in front of her playmates. Their house is made of plywood with a metal roof. ID: 190 Birthday 2001-11-24 Village: Sitio Pantay Baby Joy Fajardo is 6 years old and she is in kindergarten. Her father is a farmer who earns on a commission basis and at the same time he looks after the land that he is farming. Her mother stays in the house to look after two children, and sometimes she will go to market to take some vegetable that they harvest from their yard. Their house is made of Nipa, and they live beside the river. On most rainy days, they can not cross to go to the other side of the place because of the fast running water. Baby is always with her father, and sometimes she goes to feed the chickens and dogs. She plays by herself because their house is far from the neighbors. Her favorite color is pink and she loves to play doll. ID: 191 Birthday 1996-05-09 Village: Sitio Pantay Maryann Rustia is 8 years old and in the second grade. She is the oldest of five siblings. Her father works as a farmer, on a commission basis. It's 1 sack for 10 sacks of rice every harvest. If there is no work in farming, he works as a part time helper in construction and earns $2.50 a day. Her mother is a housewife. Maryanne walks 30 minutes to school everyday. She helps her mom do household chores like washing the dishes, and getting water from the well to be used for their cooking, laundry and washing dishes. The well is 30 minutes from their house. Her house is made of bamboo and has a metal roof. At first Maryann was very shy and she didn?t mingle with other children in the village or the Mission staff. After a time she opened up to the children and to the Mission team. ID: 192 Birthday 2001-02-10 Village: Sitio Pantay Genesis Dulot is a 7 years old boy who will be in grade II this coming school year, he is the second from the eldest of the family. he lives in Sitio Pantay.. as a little bot he always wants to play with his playmates by running from the rice fields, they do not have fancy toys but they share their laughters by means of hide and seek. He likes to be a policeman someday which he always tell to his mom. Genesis is a very shy boy but he is very attentive in his school. His favorite toys is a car toy which he is very seldom to have. His father works in manila and he only stay with his family every Saturday. His small earnings afford only for their every day food but sometimes it will not. The only thing that his father works hard because he wants His child to attend school.And with Prayers He knows that the Lord will answer Him. ID: 193 Birthday 1995-12-09 Village: Admiral Angel Reviral is a 12 years old girl who is in grade VI this school year. She is the eldest of the siblings. She lives at sitio Admiral. She is a very active girl in School and in the community where she attends the Church and active in doing the activities of the Church. She is a very good girl where she helps her mom in doing the house chores, and taking care of her younger sister and brother. Angel likes to do her assignments before she plays with her playmates in the area. She likes to eat Chicken which is very seldom to see on their table. As the eldest of the family she knows their condition so as much as possible she saves money, she will walks 45 minutes from the house to her school, because she said that education is important to a kid like her. She wants to finish her study so she can helps her parents to get out from poverty, as a child she knows also how her father do hard work in earnings just to give them a good future. In spite of their condition Angel always pray that the Lord will Bless Her family. She wants to be a teacher someday. ID: 194 Birthday 2004-10-21 Village: Admiral Jayson is a 3 years old boy, and second child, he is very thin because he do not want to eat much, he did not want to eat some of vegetables, he only at squash, even though her mom wants him to give meat but because of the condition of earnings of his father they can not afford to buy.. His favorite fruit is mango and banana, on his health condition most of the time he is sick because of his lungs, most of the time he has fever and flu and running nose, most of the time his mom brought him to the center to get medicine. He always like to play ball and toy car which he just play shared with the kids on the village. he is very good boy which he did not fight with his playmate. But most of the time he stay in the house, which sometimes he is crying if he saw new face. ID: 198 Birthday 2002-11-28 Village: Other Jerome Lazaro is a 6 years old boy which lives in his small stroller, he is the eldest of 3 siblings. Jerome as He suffered His illness since birth. He lives in Sitio galilee, he is very very shy when i look at him, His mom is always in tears whenever we talk about the condition of this poor little boy. Even though her mom wants to work to help his father she can not because she needs to look up to Jerome first. Jerome use an old baby walking stroller that comes from a friend of a family. Her mom do not know if how can she helps her son, but she do help him by carrying whenever she will go giving food and other personal needs. On this condition of Jerome His mom knows that there is Lord who will provide everything for Her son. ID: 207 Birthday 1999-11-27 Village: Other Bryan Collado is 7 years old and in grade I.He walks 30 minutes from his place to school. In spite of his condition he wants to go to school and learn. He is the youngest of 2 children. He is a very active boy where he always run with his playmates in Galilee., But before he play he will see to it that he study his assignments, and help his mom in doing a house chores like getting water from the water faucet near their house.His mother is a housekeeper who takes care of two kids. The mother can't go to work because she has problem on her heart. His father is a construction work, and he is there in the house only on Saturday because he works in Manila. The parents had a dream that someday the Lord will hear their prayers that He will bless their son to live normal and away from teasing of other kids because of his condition. ID: 208 Birthday 1997-08-24 Village: Other Jonalyn Baltazar is 9 years old and in Grade III, She is the oldest of the 4 kids. Her father died last 2 years ago, her mother remarried and has another kid who she taking care of , her step father works as a construction worker, on her age she must be in grade V but because of their condition she needs to stop for couple of years to help her mom. their house is made up of bamboo. her favorite subject is Pilipino, her favorite fruit is orange but very seldom to eat, her favorite to play is chinese garter which is made of rubber band, most of the food that she eats on their table are fish and vegetables, but sometimes just to ease the hunger they use soy sauce as toppings on their rice to eat, or they congee as their meal, her mother do laundry from other people to help her step father so she is the one who taking of her brothers and sisters. Junalyn wants to be a teacher someday ..as she said she wants to help her mother in the future. ID: 227 Birthday 1997-08-27 Village: Admiral Marynel Romero is 9 years and she will be in grade III this coming school year. She walks almost 45 minutes just to get to her school. Her favorite fruit is apple which she is very seldom to eat, as she said she just eat it on Christmas time. Her favorite food is Chicken with rice, which she eat with family on christmas time, her favorite color is black, ans she loves to play doll which made up of rag, having a nice doll is one of her dream, as she always see what the mission is doing she herself wants to be one of them when she grow up., she is the second from the eldest of the family, being the eldest girl in the family most of the time she helps her mom in doing household chores like washing dishes and taking care of her younger sister. Her father works as an operator in a truck which earns $6.00 a day, her mother needs to stay in the house to take care of her 5 kids. Their house is made up of scrap wood, with sack walls and used roof just to have a house to live in. Marynel is a very good girl who wants to go school to have educated. She is a girl that needs help for her education. ID: 233 Birthday 1994-01-26 Village: Other Danica Marie Tarubal is a 13 years old girl who will be in grade V this coming school year. She walks for almost 45 minutes just to get her in to school. Her wanting to be educated is to do hard work especially in going back and forth to school everyday. Her favorite fruit is mango, if she will ask what is the best that she want, she want to have vegetables on her rice which she is very seldom to eat in the house. her favorite color is yellow, her hobbies is to playing chinese garter, and she wants to be a computer engineer someday, Her father works as a driver who support 8 members of the family..Its hard for them especially in giving an education to their kids., like this girl Danica she has a lot of dreams someday when she is able to finish her school. ID: 246 Birthday 1995-05-15 Village: Admiral Marcelino Salinas is a 12 years old boy who will be in grade VI this coming school year. He walks for almost 45 minutes just to get him in to school. He wanting to be educated is to do hard work especially in going back and forth to school everyday. His favorite fruit is lanzones, if he will ask what is the best that he want, he want to have chicken on his rice which he is very seldom to eat in the house. his favorite color is white, his hobbies is playing basketball, and he wants to be a lawyer someday, They Had a little store who support 7 members of the family..Its hard for them especially in giving an education to their kids., like this boy Marcelino he has a lot of dreams someday when he is able to finish his school. ID: 250 Birthday 1999-04-05 Village: Other Alberto Daguimol is an 8 year old boy who is in Grade I. He walks for almost 45 minutes just to get to school. His favorite fruit is an apple, and if he is asked what he would like to eat, he wants to have fried chicken on his rice, which they seldom eat in his house. His favorite color is blue, and his hobby is playing cards. He wants to be a policeman someday. His father works as a fish vendor to support six members of the family. Alberto has a lot of dreams someday when he is able to finish his schooling. ID: 260 Birthday 1999-04-23 Village: Other Arlen Dolentap is 8 years old and in Grade I. He, too, walks for almost 45 minutes just to get to school. His favorite fruit is an apple, and if asked what he would want to eat, he ays chicken on his rice, which they seldom have at his house. His favorite color is blue, and his hobby is playing basketball. He wants to be a doctor someday. His father works as a driver to support six members of the family. Arlen has many dreams someday when he is able to finish his school. ID: 268 Birthday 1999-04-11 Village: Admiral Kevin Casumpang is 8 years old and in Grade II. His mother is a housekeeper who takes care of two children. His Father is a laborer. Their house is made up of roof as walls, which is very uncomfortable inside because of the heat. He is a very smart kid. Kevin wants to play ball around the neighborhood, and most of the time he i always with her mom. His favorite subject is writing, and his favorite fruit is apple which he said he just got it on Christmas. Kevin wants to be work as a Police someday.He said that if he has money when grow up he will give it to his mother. ID: 273 Birthday 1996-01-02 Village: Admiral Jesmar Hermogeno is a 12 years old who is in grade VI this year, Jesmar got sick when he is in 1 and half years old, he got measles but he survive by the helps of some people concern, his parents work together for their son. Until he got at this year he is a very good child, he is very good in class, he likes to be an engineer someday, his parents will do everything they can to get their son in school in spite of their condition they know that there will God who will provide of everything they need. His favorites sport is to play chess which he always did in school sports fest, he likes to eat spaghetti, burger even though its very seldom to eat. Jesmar is a very quiet and obedient kid who always there in any activities of the mission. ID: 283 Birthday 2003-02-15 Village: Admiral Danielle Ann Fetizanan is the eldest of the 2 siblings on her 9 months her mom experienced hard to deliver Danielle and she needs to be undergo cesarian in spite of their condition where her husband works as cigarrette vendor, but in the grace of God somebody helps them for the expense of the delivery of the child.on her 3 years her parents give her the best but because of her health condition she is very pale,she got sick of Dengue, her parents do not know what to do with her, her mom needs to stop working because she wants to taking care of her so in spite of their condition they survive. And She thank God for guiding them in everyday of their lives.Now Danielle is on her kinder school and she hopes and pray that the Lord will guide her family especially Danielle. ID: 285 Birthday 2004-02-21 Village: Admiral Gian Lloyd was born on February 27,2004, and he is 4 years old as a typical kid he likes to play ball, he likes the color of blue which he always looks up the sky. He likes to eat bread, and he never eat Chicken and Meat because he is very seldom to see it on the table,he eat most of the time fish and vegetables, at this time he is not yet in school but his mom see to it that she teach basic likes writing, so he will be ready for the next school year. On his 2 years he got sick and they brought him to the doctor but because they do not have money they just ask the prescription and let Gian go back home and they take care of him. Gian is a very happy child and a thoughtful kid. |
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