Three Schools and A Storm

For this year, Remir and Bles Cueto, our MOP volunteers for the BBBS Project in Marinduque, were in for marathon treks together with the other volunteers.

On the morning of May 7, they went to BOI Elementary School to give the school bags to the student beneficiaries. After a simple program by the teachers, then huffed to another school, the Tambunan Elementary School where due to time constraints, they only made a brief stop to hand-over the 144 sets of school bags to the schools. And off they went for another 2-hour hike under the rain that seems to announce the landfall of typhoon Bebeng into the country. They took the jeepney ride to Poctoy Beach where they spent their night camp. Early at 4:00 am, they woke up and prepared to go to their final destination – Sihi Elementary School where they met Ate Gina (Marinduque governor’s daughter) who also contributed 300 school bags for this cause. After the program and lunch, all the volunteers found themselves the need to be stuck for another day in Marinduque because signal storm no. 1 was already hoisted up and no RoRo boats are allowed to travel anymore. But thanks to the kind-heart of Ate Gina, they were accommodated in a private resort in Boac with free dinner and breakfast whereby the weather is already clear for them to travel back to Lucena Pier an into the waiting arms of their family and loved ones.

For this year, MOP has contributed 18 school bags which were all donated by our generous and humble friends (they want to remain anonymous in their kind donations).

To all our friends, our sincere thanks in behalf of those children who will have another exciting and learning year in their school this coming June.

Congratulations to BBBS also for another worthwhile annual project.

God bless us all.

(originally posted on May 13, 2011)