Volunteer’s Journal
Mar. 28, 2015
Tulong sa Kapwa Kapatid
Through the website Ivolunteer, nakita ko ang org. na ito. They were looking for volunteers that could join them and since I am free naman every Saturday morning, I joined them.
Our call time is 7 a.m. and the meeting place is at U.P. Palma Hall. Then there will have a van that will fetch us and will drive us to the adopted community area and it’s on Payatas.
As I stepped out of the van, you can smell that the area is really a dump site or disposal area of Metro Manila garbage but who cares?! Nandoon kami para sa mga bata. Para maturuan sila magbasa and share with them some values.
The ratio is one is to one. One volunteer per kid and the kid that I chose is AA. She’s a ten year old out of school kid.
We have red two different stories together. Then after that we had an art activity. Ido-drowing namin ang isa’t isa imagining what we will be look like five years from now. I drew her as a high school student wearing a uniform and with high grades. Gusto niyang maging nurse in the future and I told her na pwedeng mangyari iyon. Para kasi sa kanya, hindi daw iyon matutupad since mahirap lang sila at hindi na siya makakayang pag-aralin ng Mama niya. I told her not to lose hope. Na maaari pa rin niyang matupad ang pangarap niya at makakapag-aral pa rin siya. Basta mag-aaral lang siya ng mabuti aiming for high grades then maaari siyang maging scholar. I do hope na sana ay hindi siya mawalan ng pag-asa.
Then to my surprise, she drew me being married to someone. Hahaha! Masaya na daw ako at nagmamahalan daw kami. The picture says it all.
That day was also their graduation. And I stood as her stage parent. She received certificates and I am so proud of her. They sang a thank you song for us and presented some dances also.
Before our session ended, she gave me a thank you card and I was so touched that I am already close to tears. She then hugged me saying, “Thank you, Ate. I love you.”
Sobrang heart melting lang talaga. I never thought that in a very small thing that I can give, sobra sobrang gratefulness yung makukuha ko from it that I didn’t expect. This activity made me realize so many things.
Na marami palang mas deserve pa sa pagmamahal ko. That someone out there needs my love and care more. Unconditional love can be felt everywhere at hindi lang iyon umiikot mula sa pagmamahal ng isang kasintahan.
I hope to see AA among other kids in the next school year or by June for I would so much love to teach them again some moral values that I know by heart.
At 12:30 p.m., we were back at UP Palma Hall and this day changed my life forever.
This is now my lifetime advocacy and I am proud of it. I do hope to help more kids in the near future with all my might.
March 28, 2015 Fb status post:
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To join this organization, or to donate, click the link below.
2KK Tulong sa Kapwa Kapatid Facebook page: https://tl-ph.facebook.com/tulongsakapwakapatid
Website: http://www.kapwakapatid.org/
Ivolunteer website: (to look for other organizations that you can join) http://ivolunteer.com.ph/
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