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News December 2006 Since the visit by Alyssa and Nelli EVACF have held their annual fundraising event and have raised the money to support the building of two new classrooms at the Serendipity School. These will be ready for students in 2007. ALso Marie Wallum Blom from Sweden, recently requested donations to EVACF in place of birthday gifts. This, along with our recently raised "Return to Serendipity" funds will pay for the construction of a new school building at the Serendipity School complex named "Marie Serendipity School Building", due for completion mid April 2007, in time for the new Filipino school year. |
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On June 15th 2006, the 15th Anniversary of the Mt. Pinatubo's greatest eruption of the 20th century, two ISM teenagers, Alyssa and Nelli, joined EVA charity Foundation's Vice President Alain Antonio and officers of the National Commision on Indigenous People, Region 3 on a journey to open Serendipity Aeta School. The villagers built the school in as traditional a style as was feasible, in accordance with the Traditional Origins Ethnic Education School principles adopted by EVA (click for details). They donated labor and natural materials as their contribution to the project. The school is owned by the village. NCIP Regional Dir. Salong Sunggod cut the ribbon of dried leaves to mark the formal opening of the Serendipity school. |
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| The two roomed school, with toilets, is a source of community pride. Teachers for the school have been provided by the Department of Education. The two friends gave speeches, distributed supplies from "Hope for Children, UK" via EVACF and T shirts from Sime Darby, Manila via EVACF. They also witnessed the signing of contracts with the Aeta Tribal Chief. All this proved appetite stimulating and the feast, all locally grown food, was delicious: buko, bananas, papayas, sweet potato, chicken and even freshwater shrimps. Definitely a day worthy of inclusion in the memoirs of two teenage girls. |
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