The night before we travel, the rain poured heavily all night long causing the ground to get muddy and wet. It was still early when started the six-kilometer drive from the national highway going to the school. At about the same time, the little boys and girls of Medal Elementary School made their way to their school.\
Rice and corn fields, farm animals and coconut trees lined both sides of a narrow road. It wasn’t an easy trip getting to the school, yet the pictures que views more than made up for the difficulty.
When we got there, though, there was nothing refreshing in what we saw – torn, old bags, mismatched slippers worn thin and Milo viands for lunch! The reality hits one hard, a clear portrait of how many Filipinos in the poor communities live.
Thus, OPEC Kulintang brought second-hand books, four new wood bookshelves, bags with school supplies, a computer set and food to Medal Elementary School last October 10, 2016.
The feeding activity and turn-over is part of M. Lhuillier Philippines’s outreach program intended to touch the lives of children in the country’s primary schools. M. Lhuillier Philippines has been conducting community service events and mass donations in remote and marginalized areas of the region.
The pupils flashed the most genuine smiles as they received their new school bags and materials, one step closer to better learning. The teachers were happy to accept the new computer set that will make work easier and more efficient for them. The bookshelves served to give the school a more organized way of displaying books and other reading materials to facilitate the making of assignments and projects.
Stomachs were filled, too, with the food brought by the OPEC Kulintang Team.
As the Team bade the children, teachers and school staff goodbye, one reflected on the significance of the day’s events. Education remains hard and tough in a developing country such as the Philippines whose red-white-and-blue standard seemed to wave goodbye to the team, too, at the school’s entrance, but, with the help of well-meaning and generous hearts and hands, the battle can be won. One need not worry about the mud that he has to slip through on the way if there is a sure that the medal will surely be his.
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