Project Report
| Jun 7, 2016
Students as volunteers
By Cora Sayre | Project Leader
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Student volunteers
Dear Friends,
Greetings and thank you very much for your generous support to send typhoon affected students to college. This initiative is indeed a big support for hard-up students and their families and the best thing is that we don't ask them to maintain a specific grade but only to pass the semester so that eventually they will be able to graduate and be an asset to themselves and their families. This reporting period is summer season and most of the students that we are supporting are back in their families.
In order for them to be productive and earn something while on short vacation, we engage some of them as volunteers to assist in the various projects that we are implementing in Leyte. This reporting period for example we were able to engage 5 students on vacation to assist our safe sanitation project by painting the toilet bowls produced by local artisans. We provide the volunteers with some allowance that they can use when classes open.
Again, thank you very much for your kind support.
Very sincerely yours,
Cora
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Mar 14, 2016
Goat raising as alternative income source
By Cora Sayre | Project Leader
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Goat raising for added income
Dear Friends,
Greetings and thank you very much for your continuing support to our project sending girls affected by Typhoon Haiyan to school. As we mentioned in previous reports, we send our selected beneficiaries to vocational and formal schools depending on their choice. Some selects vocational schools where courses are completed in 3-6 months and then they are able to find jobs after graduating. They choose vocational because it takes time, say 3-4 years to finish formal schooling. We mentioned also that we are encoutering some problems because of the continuing nature of this initiative and thus we took care to encourage our supporters to give this project priority. This reporting period, we are providing small livelihoods to the families of our beneficiaries by encouraging them to raise small animals such as pigs, chickens and goats. Goats is the excellent choice because they are easy to raise, fed only with grasses, prolific, the females produces offspring and they command high price in the market. The income from the goat project the family can use to pay for the daily expenses of the students comprising fare, snacks, school supplies and other small expenses. We are able to buy and disperse a total of 38 goats for our beneficiaries.
Again, thank you very much for your generous support.
Very sincerely yours,
Cora Sayre
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Dec 17, 2015
Multi-year support for college students
By Elmer Sayre | Project Leader
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Thank you note
Dear Friend,
Warm greetings from Leyte and thank you very much for your kind support to our project to send girls to college. During project implementation we included boys as there are also boys excelling in academics but very poor and education will be a way out for them and their families from extreme poverty and marginalization. We also included those taking-up vocational education because the short courses will enable them to get a job in a short time. We did not realize that this project is complicated because of the multi-year nature of expenses, semester per semester. We will try to find a solution to this as support for typhoon Haiyan is now small compared to the early days. This reporting period we provided fund support to 18 of our continuing college students.
Hoping for your continuing support to this project.
Very sincerely yours,
Elmer
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