edges issue 3. the aldc annual newszine
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Edges is the annual NewsZine of Awagoh Learning and Development Center. The ALDC is a nonprofit in the Philippines. It aims to empower communities in Cauayan, in the south of Negros Occidental, in the Visayas region, through literacy.TRANSCRIPT
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P A G E 2
“To catch the reader's attention, place an
interesting sentence or quote from the story
here.”
MESSAGE FROM GLITTER
The peals of laughter were long and crisp and were not exactly unexpected.
Somehow, we knew that we would laugh even before we bowed down to pray that one
breezy quiet night three months ago. Then when one of us actually said it out loud for the
first time, well, we laughed. I learned two important things then. One, I have more of
Sarah in me than I have of Abraham, and that, two, laughter is really a basic need!
Frederic Buchner, on Abraham and Sarah going to have a child, said, "They
laughed because laughing felt better than crying. They laughed because if by some crazy
chance it just happened to come true, they would really have something to laugh about,
and in the meanwhile it helped keep them going."
We are limited creatures and despite our claims that we believe on the God who
owns everything and can do anything, there are times that our human finiteness cannot
immediately grasp hold of that truth. And hence, to laugh is not necessarily not to believe,
but to cope, a stage that one has to go through in stepping out of faith.
At ALDC, there is no question that we are taking a giant leap of faith. We opened
the year 2014 by launching a bigger Advocacy Awareness and Fund Raising Campaign
called the ‘FLASH THE SEVEN' or FT7. This directly refers to the 7M pesos (US$158,000)
that we need as budget to build our Eco-school, and to the hope that we can get more
people to know and support the global advocacy for literacy, specifically through a ripple
scheme where one ALDC supporter will find seven others more to get involved with our
work in any way. In short, the FT7 is both to raise awareness and funds.
In the magnitude of these goals, we are grateful for the gift of laughter to sustain
our sanity, and more so, for the accessibility of prayer to sustain our faith. Indeed, we
have started a whole new commitment to prayer and which we hope that time can mold
into a tradition, so that in the future, there will be no doubt that it is through the faith of
ordinary people that God has been able to accomplish extraordinary things.
Please know that to laugh and to pray are becoming easier for us to do as our
support network is growing and getting stronger. This is a very good time to thank you all
for giving to ALDC, even sometimes sacrificially. May this annual ‘NewsZine’ bring joy and
hope to you and strengthen your resolve in making a difference in your corner of the
world. We continue to invite you to work with us, laugh with us and pray with us.
Together, we can Empower Through Literacy!
Glitter H. Moreño
7 May 2014
E D G E S
The Prayer Hut stands on the land
where the Eco School would soon
rise. Everyday, the ALDC team
regularly gathers and prays inside
this prayer hut.
We use a Prayer Logbook to record
all our prayer praises and prayer
concerns everyday. A prayer log-
book also contains the specific date
and time of prayer and who prayed.
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P A G E 3 E D G E S
Books will always be an integral
part in our advocacy.
We are very grateful to all our
BOOKDRIVERS this school year!
They are Jocelyn Astrom
(Sweden), UPV CD Students
(Iloilo), Maranatha Christian
College (Bacolod), Veronica
Illenberger (USA) and Christine
Babao (Manila).
Book Giving Campaign, we were able
to give books to adults and children in
the villages of Parola (coastal) and
Patol (upland). We also gave books to
Caliling Elem School, Candulan Elem
School, Pinamay-an Elem School and
Caliling High School.
Help us sustain this program.
Be an ALDC Bookdriver today!
The books you give to us are
either given away to marginal-
ized schools and communities
or placed in our own library.
Hence, books to us and through
us, can make a huge difference
in the lives of many.
For the last 12 months, under
our Reading Awareness and
Because books bridge...
Be An ALDC Bookdriver
Donation of English books to Florentina
Caña Recto Memorial High School, Caliling
Extension, December 2013.
This box which contains toys, clothes
and books, is the third package that
Veronica Illenberger has donated to us
from California, USA, since 2010.
Ms Illenberger found out about our
work online.
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P A G E 4
Flash the 7 in china
SPOTLIGHT
|Website. We
launched our offi-
cial website in
August 2013. Our
online space is a
very good way to
tell people about
our work and to
update our sup-
porters about our
progress. We also
actively use
Facebok and
Twitter for ALDC.|
|Bamboo Banks.
The ALDC Eco
School project is
participatory. We
do not only en-
courage the peo-
ple living in the
cities or overseas
to help us, but we
also empower the
families in the
ALDC community
to take part by
saving up coins
for the ALDC Eco
School using a
bamboo bank. |
The number 7 is a significant number to ALDC.
Our ‘FLASH THE 7’ or FT7, is all about the 7. We
are raising 7M pesos to build our Eco School, and
we hope to encourage each of our supporters to
tell 7 other people more about the global crisis of
illiteracy and how they could get involved with
our work in changing the situation.
Beginning this year, 2014, we hope to take FT7 to
key cities in the Philippines and overseas, where
there are Filipino communities that will be willing
to host us.
We lobby, primarily, for Filipinos (ALDC Sponsors)
to help Filipinos (ALDC) help Filipinos (ALDC bene-
ficiaries). Of course, we hope to receive all the
help, too, from our non-Filipino friends, as our
need is great, but our primary dream is to mobi-
lize Filipinos to help their country through us.
For the whole month of March, ALDC founder,
Glitter Moreño, was in China, specifically in Bei-
jing and Shenyang, to give talks to various groups
about the FT7.
In Beijing, Glitter was able to meet and share FT7
with Ahmed Faqihi and Zafer Alqarni, Arab educa-
tors and who previously gave to our SPED pro-
gram, the core team of the Philippines-China
Friendship club, the Filipino Congregation at Bei-
jing International Christian Fellowship, the inter-
national academicians and PhD students at Bei-
jing Normal University and more. The China Radio
International also guested and interviewed
Glitter.
While, in Shenyang, Glitter gave a talk to a Filipi-
no group and to international students and ex-
pats in Shenyang International Christian Fellow-
ship. She also gave a seminar on Community De-
velopment and Missions to short-term missionar-
ies.
We are grateful to volunteer FT7 coordinators in
China, Velessa Dulin (Beijing), Joseph and Lucelle
Appleton and Tad and Vickie Natividad.
(Shenyang).
E D G E S
FT7 at Beijing Normal University
FT7 at Biejing Int’l Christian Fellowship
– Filipino Congregation
Filipinos organized a lunch gathering
for FT7 in Shenyang.
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Adult Literacy Students Finished Level 1
P A G E 5 E D G E S
We are happy to report that our first batch of Adult
Literacy Curriculum (ALC) students in the upland village
of Patol has finished the Level 1 of learning.
Joining our Preschool and SPED students, in our 4th
Moving Up Ceremony and Closing Exercises, last 24
March, our ALC students proudly received their
certificate of accomplishment, too. The group which
was led by our oldest student and former chief of Patol,
Cervando Chavez, 64, rendered a song number and
recited a poetry on literacy written by their teacher,
Ms Amelyn Elladora.
This batch is moving up to Level 2 on June this school
year. We hope that through them, many will be inspired
to enroll in ALC.
lage called Lawiswis and rule
forever.
But then there is Alamwiz, the
good wizard that tells Marikit
and her friends how to defeat
Libroster. The only way is by
having a change of heart and to
start reading books!
Glitter wrote the play Si
Marikit, Si Libroster kag (and) Si
Alamwiz to be used as the offi-
cial campaign tool of the ALDC
team when visiting schools and
communities for its Reading
Awareness and Book Giving
Campaign.
The play has been very effec-
tive and is always a crowd
attraction.
ALDC performed to students
from 25 schools during a scout
camp (Nov 2013) , and to chil-
dren and parents in the upland
village of Patol (May 2013).
This is a story about a girl,
Marikit, who lives in a village
called, Lawiswis. Marikit does
not like to read books. All she
wants to do is play and play all
day long. Her mother, Celia,
buys her books. Her friend,
Lourdes, gives her books to
read, too. Her father, Dencio,
also tells her that reading is
learning and when you don’t
read, you don’t learn.
Marikit, however, ignores their
efforts. She does not like books
and nothing could ever change
her mind. Or so she thought.
Living in the deepest of the
deepest swamps in the village
called Lawiswis, there is a crea-
ture that is growing in strength
and size as more and more chil-
dren reject the reading of
books. He is Libroster, a mon-
ster! His goal is to eliminate all
books from the face of the vil-
The ALC Batch 1 students of Patol, proudly showed their certificate of
accomplishment, with Teacher Amelyn, during our 4th Moving Up
Ceremony, 24 March 2014.
Si Marikit, Si Libroster, kag Si Alamwiz
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28 students have graduated from Tumalawas Elem. School. Apart from
the Love Letter, we also gave each graduate two High School books to
encourage them more to pursue High School. Tumalawas is four hours
away by foot, one way, from the nearest high school.
P A G E 6
E D G E S
The “Love Letters” is a newly-launched
annual initiative of the ALDC that hopes
to bridge love and encouragement be-
tween people who support our literacy
advocacy and the teachers and elemen-
tary graduates in selected mountain
schools through letters, every school-year
end.
The chances are always high for elemen-
tary school graduates living in the moun-
tains to not continue on to high school,
primarily because of the long distance.
We hope that through the Love Letters,
we can make a small but good difference
in encouraging these students to pursue
high school to get closer to their dreams.
Similarly, we hope that the Love Letters,
will make a big impact, too, on the teach-
ers who will receive them. They risk their
lives, traversing dangerous roads, just to
teach in mountain schools, every day.
LOVE
The hills are alive with the sound of learning! Our dream is to see these children move on to high school, and later on, to
higher education. Presently, we are working to get the class valedictorian to live in the ALDC and make her our high school
scholar after we found out that her parents did not intend to enroll her in high school because of the long distance.
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P A G E 7 E D G E S
To go down from Candulan Elem. School, the ALDC team had to climb down steep hills and crossed seven rivers, something that the teachers of the school do everyday!
LETTERS For our first year, we have identified
three school beneficiaries. These
were, Patol Elem. School,
Candulan Elem. School,
and Tumalawas Elem. School.
We gave a total of 82 letters to 15
teachers and 67 graduating pupils.
Our letters came from different plac-
es in the country, as far as Manila,
Mindanao and Antique.
“Receiving words of encour-agement from someone, somewhere, I believe, can lift the spirit up of a hardworking teacher. I am glad to be a part of this project!”
Jeanette Madas, Love Letter Writer
General Santos, Mindanao
The principal and teachers of Patol Elem. School were happy to receive a love letter, a book, and a copy of the Freedom Writers Film!
THANK YOU to all our 82 Love Letter Writers!
Be a source of encouragement to a student
or a teacher in an upland school.
Be an annual ALDC Love Letter Writer!
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August 2013. TV hosts,
Christine Babao and Edu Manzano,
have generously donated a new
computer and printer to our office.
We are very grateful to their kind-
ness.
Ms Babao, a children's author has
also donated her books to ALDC in
2011, the very first Pilipino books
in ALDC library.
SA DOON
MAY TALINO
MALAYA
KAHIT PA
ANG PAGTUNGO SA DOON
AY MAHIRAP
MATIRIK
MAGALASGAS
MAHABA
MALAYO
NGUNIT ANG NAIS NILA
AY MAGTUNGO SA DOON
SA DOON
MAY TALINO
MALAYA
KAMI RIN
ANG TUNGO AY SA DOON
KASAMA NILANG
NAGTUTURO
NATUTUTO
KAHIT PA MAN
MATIRIK
MAGALASGAS
MAHABA
MALAYO
BALANG ARAW
ANG DOON
AY DITO
MAY TALINO
MALAYA
Computer Donation
P A G E 8
E D G E S
Our mothers
stretching
their stress
away.
They came. They saw. They helped.
We were greatly encouraged by
the visit and help of individuals
who supported our advocacy.
In July 12, 2013, Zinnia Villarin,
a triathlete and fitness coach in
Manila came to lead our ‘FIT IS
HIT’ Nutrition Day. Our goal was
to promote regular fitness and
exercise to have a healthy body.
Coach Zinnia taught our children
and parents Yoga and Zumba.
A month later, in August 9, Faith
Dumaligan, a landscape architect
in Manila came to see how she
could help us start the design for
our Eco School building.
Community Development faculty
and students of UP Visayas also
visited and helped the ALDC in
August 29-31, as their Alternative
Learning Event (ALE). The 34-
member contingent which was
comprised by four CD classes,
31 students, and three profes-
sors, were divided into three
teams. More on page 11.
Our children
enjoying yoga.
Arrival of CD
faculty and
students from
UP.
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4th Moving Up Ceremony
P A G E 9 E D G E S
“Hindi Natitinag ang Pusong Pilipino” or “The Filipino Heart Cannot Be Moved”, was the graduation theme in every school in the Philippines at the end of the school year 2013-14.
Both our baccalaureate speaker, Mr Ryle Moreño, and graduation speaker, Pastor Nick Balinas, emphasized the importance of Christian education and a personal relationship with God, as ways to have a heart that is resolved and cannot be moved.
We held our 4th Moving Up Ceremony last 24 March. Just like the years before, this
event was very special to our chil-dren and their families. Dressed in their best, grandparents and par-ents, proudly walked up the stage to pin ribbons or put medals on their children for their special awards. The ‘Little Dreamers’, an annual number, was also very spe-
cial. Children painted a bright future around by dressing up in their future dreams.
What made this year’s Moving Up Ceremony more special were the accomplishment of our first batch of ALC students, and the confi-dence in the performance of our SPED children. Indeed, it was one memorable day!
Lean Magbanua, has completed the three levels of preschool at ALDC through our Scholarship Program, from 2011 until 2014. She graduat-ed as second in her class last 24 March, and will be attending Grade 1 this June in a public school nearby. In all her time with us, Lean has served as a good inspiration because of her courage in facing her illness.
Lean, 6, is now all set
to enter Grade 1.
OVER THERE
IS LEARNING
FREEDOM
THOUGH
GETTING THERE
IS HARD
HILLY
ROUGH
LONG
FAR
BUT WHAT THEY WANT
IS TO GET THERE
OVER THERE
IS LEARNING
FREEDOM
WE TOO
ARE GOING THERE
WITH THEM
WHO TEACH
WHO LEARN
YES
THE ROAD TO
OVER THERE
IS
HILLY
ROUGH
LONG
FAR
BUT SOMEDAY
OVER THERE
IS HERE
LEARNED
FREE
Our children in their ‘Little Dreamers’ costume during the 4th Moving Up.
LEAN, AN ALDC SCHOLAR!
Glitter wrote the poem
‘Sa Doon’ (0ver There)
and it best captures
the long struggle
towards literacy.
In July 2012, Lean got sick and was diagnosed with nephrotic syndrome. This means that Lean’s kid-neys were damaged, caus-ing protein, particularly her albumin, to leak from her blood into the urine. The illness is cureable for some but for others, it can be a life-long condition or worse it can lead to kidney failure. More on page 13.
Teacher Hazel with Kent and Kristian of SPED.
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P A G E 1 0
At the Estancia port.
We crossed to Sicogon
by renting one of these
small motored boats.
Relief Drive for Carles Shortly after the typhoon
Haiyan had devastated the
Visayas region in the Philip-
pines, we launched our
Relief Drive for Carles in the
northernmost part of Iloilo,
one of the most affected
places.
We appealed for toys,
clothes and funds. Happily,
we were able to raise
78,217 pesos ($1,760) and
collected a good volume of
clothes.
On 13-15 December 2013,
the ALDC team went to
Sicogon Island, in Carles, to
contribute in the relief
efforts and deliver help in
the area.
There, we conducted a
stress debriefing activity to
children and teachers in
two elementary schools .
We sang songs, played
games, prayed, and led the
children to write letters to
God. In the letters, the chil-
dren expressed their fears
and their wishes and
dreams. Almost all of
them asked for the com-
plete restoration of their
houses and schools.
Through our relief fund,
we were also able to pro-
vide housing or/and liveli-
hood assistance to eleven
families.
Thank you for sending
your help!
E D G E S
Mesalie, 38, ands her son, Arjhan, 11, know
well how devastating typhoons can be. They
lost Arnel, Mesalie's husband and Arjhan's
father in May 11, 2006 when typhoon Caloy
hit the seas of Masbate. They never recov-
ered his body.
Arjhan was only four years old then.
Mesalie was so devastated that she
had to go away and find work in Ma-
nila to cope with her loss. Lola Trin-
ing, Mesalie's mother, was the one
who raised Arjhan. She did a very
good job as Arjhan turned out to be
a respectful, happy and helpful boy.
Earlier this year, Mesalie decided to
come home to Carles for good. So it
was quite a bitter joke to experience
the devastation of a super typhoon
Bensurto Family, relief recipient.
several months after she came back.
It did not only cause a lot damage in the
family's house, but it also brought back
the painful memories of losing Arnel to a
strong typhoon. Mesalie, however, is
much stronger now, and she knows that
this recent struggle in her familly will also
pass.
We gave the Bensurto family funds to
finish the repairs of their house.
ALDC, Philippines 3,730 pesos
Cornerstone Church, Cambodia 6,235 pesos
Philippine Self-Help Foundation, Philippines 15,000 pesos
Shekinah Glory Baptist Church, Philippines 2,025 pesos
Student group in Beijing Normal University, China 7,960 pesos
William Struse, USA 43,217 pesos
TOTAL 78,217 pesos
ALDC RELIEF FUND
We spent 35,000 pesos in
December last year for relief
in Carles. We discovered the
donation from Mr William
Struse only a month later
and this now makes up the
balance of the ALDC Relief
SPOTLIGHT |The New Internationalist
(NI), a prestigious and pro-
gressive publication, fea-
tured the Adult Literacy
Curriculum of the ALDC,
two months ago in its Pho-
to Essay section. The NI
also asked its readers to
donate their NI magazines
to the ALDC Library. |
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They came. They saw. They helped. From page 8.
Lastly, we were blessed
by the visit of our mis-
sionary friends and ALDC
supporters, couples Jo-
seph and Lucelle Apple-
ton and Tad and Vicky
Natividad, from China,
last 26 January.
For Day 1, each group had a
lowland school to visit and
promote reading to, and for
Day 2, the groups went up
to their designated upland
communities.
Please read above the in-
sights of some UP students.
They brought goodies for
the team and craft materi-
als and medicines for our
school!
Their presence was a great
encouragement to us!
The Natividads and the Appletons.
UP Students Reflect of their Visit to ALDC
P A G E 1 1 E D G E S
The CD 135 Class comprised the
Team Josephine, one of the
three teams during the visit of
Community Development facul-
ty and students from the Uni-
versity of the Philippines in the
Visayas.
Team Josephine campaigned
for reading in three schools,
two of which were located in
the mountains.
Here are some bits taken from
the insights of some CD 135
students.
“We let the children draw their
dreams on paper. I was sur-
prised to see some of their
drawing. One of them drew a
fish. I asked him why did he
draw a fish and he answered
me this “Kay wala pa ako kati-
law sang isda.” (I have not eat-
en fish yet.) I did not know what
to feel. “
Brian Rose Iquina
“I have been through different
devastating situations but what
I witnessed in this visit
has changed my perception
about life satisfaction, and left
me burdened and motivated.
The children of Sitio Looy have
opened my eyes to give value of
what I have today. “
Maris Pylene Espero
“I have seen many documentaries in class that showed
how hard it is for people to get education in far flung
areas, but witnessing it in reality is different. “
Hannah Faith Enriquez
“I kept going, once again focusing my energy into
breathing and walking. I was so exhausted when we
reached the primary school that I headed straight to-
wards heavenly cold buko juice and a chair. I turned to
my right and saw little faces peeping through the class-
room windows. After almost two hours, I had the ener-
gy to smile...I was also resenting the politicians who
steal billions each year to invest on their new houses or
wonderful vacations. And I think it’s really stupid to
spend billions on this road widening crap while some
places don’t even have roads. I hated politicians be-
fore, now, after ALDC, I’d gladly shoot them point
blank.”
Joni Mae Berador
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GIVE
Commit to a monthly
pledge to ALDC and we will
allocate it accordingly. The
pledge starts at 1,000 pe-
sos ($145) for a maximum
of 12 months or one school
year. Alternatively, you can
give a one-time donation.
We provide a regular and
transparent reporting.
Help Us EMPOWER THOUGH LITERACY!
There are many
ways that you can
support the ALDC!
P A G E 1 2
E D G E S
BOOKDRIVE
You are a bookdriver to
ALDC when you donate
your own books or when
you organize a system to
collect books to send to us.
The need for books is ex-
tremely great in our target
schools and communities.
Send your donation to our
address, located at the
back cover.
VOLUNTEER
Tell us your skills and there
might just be a scope for
you to do at ALDC. Also,
please consider visiting us
and helping us on site for a
short time. If you’re one
for adventure then you will
love our mountains and
our beaches, the additional
perks, when you are in our
communities.
HOST THE FT7
We hope to take FT7 to key
cities within and outside the
Philippines where there will
be people who are willing to
give us a platform.
In March of this year, we
were successful in sharing
our literacy advocacy in
China because there were a
few people there who
walked the extra mile to
organize meet-ups and
events for ALDC, and even
took care of our lodging and
food.
We hope that the FT7 in
China will not be our first
and last this year. Help us
take our advocacy to your
area. HOST THE FT7!
CAMPAIGN
We cannot reach your fam-
ily and friends, but you
can! Will you take some
time to tell them about us?
One of them might be will-
ing to support our work.
Also you can campaign for
us by encouraging people
to like us on facebook, and
follow us on twitter. We
always post new updates.
JOIN
We always have random
projects every now and
then. Take our Love Letters
Project, for instance, which
is only happening once a
year. Or our fundraising
drive to help a particular
family or a calamity-
stricken community. So
please always check our
website for the latest.
SEND YOUR GIFT: The ALDC has three official bank accounts. You may transfer your funds to us through any that will be most convenient for you. Please make sure to notify us when you make a deposit. Bank: Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) Banco De Oro (BDO) China Construction Bank (CCB) Name: Awagoh Learning & Devt Center Inc. Glitter H. Moreno Glitter Moreno Account: 1043-7549-78 1960-1066-68 6210-8107-3001-2347-424 Branch: 0104-Bacolod Main 196-SM City Bacolod Swift Code: BOPIPHMM BNORPHMM Routing No: CH005873
There is no fee when depositing in BPI anywhere in the Philippines.
There is a 50-peso charge when depositing in BDO outside of Negros Occidental, except if you transfer funds online.
Our China account is especially for those living in China. Please remember to add 30CNY for withdrawal fee.
Our paypal account will be activated within the year for online donation.
PRAY
Our need for prayer part-
ners is as great as our need
for financial supporters.
When you commit to ‘Pray
Daily for ALDC’ you will
pray with us and for us. We
have a prayer calendar
which you can download
and print. Whereever you
are in the world, you can
help us this way.
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LEAN, AN ALDC SCHOLAR! From page 9.
P A G E 1 3 E D G E S
Since her diagnosis, Lean has been under regular medication. Indeed, there were times when her tummy and cheeks bloated and she had to be absent from school for a long time to get better.
Her faith in God, however, was remarkable. She would some-times comfort Leny, her moth-er, by saying, that she was not afraid to die as she knew that she would go to Jesus in heav-en.
When she said her little speech during the graduation ceremo-ny, many were moved to tears.
Lean’s triumph was truly a picture of God’s grace, of her own courage and the unity of care and love given to her by the ALDC commu-nity.
The ALDC has truly provided Lean and her family with a reliable support system. Many thanks, too, to Lean’s sponsors for supporting Lean’s learning at ALDC.
Lean is not yet out of the woods so please include her in your prayers.
Glitter’s Interview in China
Our Scholars SY 2014-15
L-R: Jade Xian (station manager), Glitter, Ramon Escanillas, (Filipino broadcaster), and Machelle Ramos (host of the show).
SPONSOR
AN
ALDC
SCHOLAR! Our Scholarship Pro-gram has enabled many children to study in ALDC Preschool for the last three years. We have had kind individu-als who each sponsored a child for a whole year of studies. This school year, 2014-15, we are taking things into a whole new level as we expand our Scholarship Program. One, we will start to have SPED, Elementary and High School schol-ars. We hope to have five SPED scholars, and we are also keen to start helping selected poor Elementary and High School students, including Lean, who are studying in public
schools in Cauayan.
Moreover, we will open a preschool branch in the upland community of Mayab so that many more children living in the mountains will be able to have a high quality basic education. Would you sponsor an ALDC scholar? Take a look at your left. Contact us for details.
Lean, with mother Leny,
brother Leonard, and teacher Hazel,
after the graduation ceremony.
The China Radio International (CRI) Filipino Service
in Beijing, interviewed Glitter in its show
‘Mga Pinoy sa Tsina’ (The Filipinos in China).
The interview was a good opportunity for Glitter to
talk about the global crisis on illiteracy and what
the ALDC is doing to contribute in solving this prob-
lem in the central part of the Philippines.
The interview was in Pilipino. It was aired in the
Philippines on April 2, over DZME 1530.
Online, it can still be accessed at:
filipino.cri.cn/401/2014/03/31/2s127559.htm
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Hear now! FT7 is the latest trend in town
for posing for a photo! Make sure to blend in.
And when your friends ask you
what the five and two are all about, grab the chance to tell them
about the global problem of illiteracy.
There are now 7.2 billion people in the world.
16% of this are non-literate. More than half of the 16%
are living in South and West Asia. A half of the 16% are women.
Tell them, too, about the ALDC. And what we do to contribute
to the solution of this global crisis through our efforts in the Philippines.
Calaogao, Caliling, Cauayan Negros Occidental 6112 Philippines
Website: www.awagohldc.org Phone: +63 917 552 1296 E-mail: [email protected] Facebook: www.facebook.com/ALDC.Philippines Twitter: www.twitter.com/aldc_glitterhm
ALDC Inc.
Ready, lights camera, FLASH THE 7!
EMPOWERING THROUGH LITERACY
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The Awagoh Learning and Development Center, Inc., is a nonprofit organization in the Philippines. It aims to empower communities in Cauayan, in the south of Negros island, in the Visayas region, through literacy.
The ALDC hopes to meet its goals, through its Outreach and 5 FOR 5. The ALDC's Outreach includes Adopt-A-School, Reading Awareness and Book-Giving Campaign, and Outdoor Class. The 5 For 5, on the other hand, is a program which entails five literacy services to address the needs of five specific sectors. SEC CN201226479 TIN 006851065000 DepEd R-VI E-345 S. 2014
On the cover is Corazon Pontenegra, a student of ALDC’s Adult Literacy Curriculum (ALC), and one of the Level 1 finishers last March. Corazon is a farmer in the upland village of Patol.