Maganday Nobokah Aeta School
Sitio Monicayo Calumpang, Mabalacat, Pampanga

donating school supplies with evacf
2010 visit to Maganday school

News January 26th 2010: EVACF volunteers with Dr. Catherine Ramos of NCIP visited the school to distribute school supplies and gardening tools donated with the help of British Chamber of Commerce (Philipinnes) and Elks Club Manila. They found that there were now THREE teachers, including one Aeta. These are supplied by the Dept. of Education. The school is still in good condition. The play area in front of the school has been concreted through cooperation with another NGO. This will help in the wet weather. All three teachers were crying out for two new classrooms to be constructed as soon as possible.

 

maganday children at school
maganday visit
school children

maganday january 2009 aeta school
maganday aeta school

News January 29th 2009: Dr. Catherine Ramos and the NCIP outreach team visited the school to distribute generous gifts and school supplies to the staff and children resulting in huge smiles everywhere. They found that there was a new teacher, the Dept. of Education having rotated the lowland teacher but retained the AETA teacher - the policy being to have one of each wherever possible. The school is in good condition and the middle room has been properly organised into a teacher facility. The children are thriving and the village is growning in pride of its TOES facility. Their TV which we supplied earlier, stopped working last year but is now being repaired by the community. We have visited this school many times in the last two years but don't always take our camera.

 


the sign for magandhay school

News September 27th 2007: EVACF volunteers and a British School Manila (BSM guest) visited the school which BSM helped fund. The generous guest had baked banana cup cakes which were enjoyed by 50 pupils plu s teachers plus visiting nursing students from Angeles and the staff of NCIP RIII. Happy tummies and happy TOES.

News September 6th 2007: A group of EVACF members visited the school on September 6th. They met the new teacher (who is AETA and from Sitio Monicayo itself and shown on the right). We were informed that next year the middle room, currently a teacher office/rest/store room will be needed for a classroom.

Good News. As the school has been given new school furniture the excess tables and chairs will be removed by NCIP RIII to be placed in other TOES schools.

 


During the visit in September 2007 the garden was clearly providing a good place for learning about the environment and providing for oneself. Inside there were many children going about their school business and occasionally posing for a photograph for our school history.


Maganday Nobokah School was funded with the help of children of The British School, Manila (philippines) and is the first TOES facility with electricity. It is also only the second to feature teacher accomodation. It is a multigrade school but concentrates on the younger grades, with older children walking up to a larger school not too far away. Other charity groups and medical missions also use the school facilities. The school officially opened in June 2005.


September 2006:On Wednesday, 20 September, Dr. Ramos of NCIP visited our schools in Bataan. The wonderful photographs show Teacher Ms DeLeon & Children at the School trying on their very special T shirts donated by British School Manila. The school has recently been given a wonderful coat of new paint by Unilever.