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Events and Accomplishments - May, June 2012

7/22/2012

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On May 2, 2012, I and my mother (leftmost) signed a contract with Manila Business College officials led by Dr. Thomas Chua for a generous grant to accommodate our college scholars for FULL scholarship for this school year.  
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On May 4, we had accommodated kind visitors from Singapore who have promised us their help in terms of books and awareness. They are Ava Avila (from the National Institute of Education, originally from Davao) and Linda Sellou (a chemistry lecturer at the Nanyang Technological University, originally from France).
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Linda Sellou and Ava Avila (left) meet with the children.
Last May 8, Max's Restaurant and its MEI Employee Council sponsored an outreach activity at KRIS Library - Quezon City. They invited 75 children from Barangay Holy Spirit for a day of book reading, film viewing, feeding, and fun!
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Max's Restaurant employees prepare for the book-reading.
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Children listen closely to the story.
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A Max's employee gives her all in reading!
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Children avidly watch award-winning short film, The Gruffalo, after hitting the books.
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The children all had an amazing time, and so did our friends from Max's!
On May 11, I had the honor of talking to Prince Naquiyuddin Jaafar during his unveiling in Manila of a new anti-dengue technology that would benefit tropical countries such as ours that continue to suffer from this epidemic. Our conversation has inspired me to incorporate further the goal of educating not only about letters and numbers, but also about health, to our beneficiaries. 
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Seated at left is Prince Jaafar while seated at my right is Malaysian Ambassador to the Philippines, Dato Seri Dr. Ibrahim Saad.
Two days after, on May 13, our team had donated a set of computers and books to replenish the resources of KRIS Library in Rodriguez, Rizal. Rodriguez is an ill-equipped relocation area for victims of the typhoons, fires, and demolition jobs from Metro Manila.
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Say hello to my new friends! :)
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KRIS LIbrary, in cooperation with Kapatirang Claretiano Inc. (KCI), turns books and computers over to the community.
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No KRIS Library activity would be complete without a book-reading!
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I also led a short dance of Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star. :)
Last May 17, we were invited to a TV appearance of the Global News Networks' Social Responsibility show, hosted by Consul Annette Ablan. We were invited thanks to the help of a friend, Roxanne Oquendo, who is formerly from K.I.D.S. Foundation.
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L-R. Consul Annette Ablan, me, Armand Nocum (my father), and Ramil Sumangil from Books For A Cause
During my brother Arno's 1st birthday last May 26, we also did not forget our beneficiaries. Instead of gifts, we had asked for several donations and had received monetary donations, books and computers thanks to Quota International, generous family, and friends. We had also asked some of our scholars to come and celebrate with us.
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The family with members of Quota International including Past Presidents Lalu Gopaldas (center) and ....
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Rexann, a KRIS Library scholar from Holy Spirit, Quezon City, joins in the fun with her own mask and painted face!
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Guests and scholars alike clap to the beat of Happy Birthday for Arno :)
On June 12, to culminate the fundraising for the KRIS Library scholars of School Year 2012 - 2013, where we had raised more than P130,000, we had distributed each child's share of the fund in the form of a complete set of school supplies. ABS-CBN had been around to document the event as well as to receive our donation of computers to their Happy Computer project for public schools. 
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Each of our 44 scholars from Quezon City received a complete school supply set.
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Children pose with their new treasures!
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Thanks to Ms. Roanne Duran (right in blue) and Ms. Karen Davila, we had been featured in ABS-CBN's Ako Ang Simula TV. :)
The past months had been very, very fruitful. We'd like to thank everyone for every donation, for every tweet, like, or share, and for every prayer. Here's to more achievements for KRIS Library!
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This Christmas, KRIS Library Would Like To Say THANK YOU!

12/24/2011

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Two days ago, my family and I arrived here in Zamboanga City. After the long ride from the airport to the remote barangay of Manicahan, the first thing I sought to do was to behold the completed spectacle of the KRIS Library here.

Adorned with a glinting yellow parol in front, the door to the library was already open as about a dozen children were inside hovering over books and an intense game of chess. Several flew from shelf to shelf as their eyes zoomed from Science to History to Art in our simplified categories of selections. With around 10,000 books in our arsenal of learning, the smaller kids would usually pull up chairs to retrieve reading treasures shelved in nooks taller than them. And they would nestle themselves in the tables in the first floor. Going up the staircase, I smelled new varnish layered on the surface, and saw some more boxes of new books stacked in the corner. To my left was a wide space with a conference table and to my right was a busy computer room with three veiled Muslim girls chatting over their newly-made e-mail accounts. I then took a peak into a wide, clean guest room fit to be occupied by our visiting volunteers in the future. Finally, a little boy ran past me to go down to the comfort room. After he left, I checked out the two new comfort rooms for both genders whose glinting blue tiles and fixtures were kept clean for the kids. 

Today, KRIS Library - Manicahan is not just a hub of reading and learning; it is now also an internet oasis in a quiet town where our beneficiaries have at their fingertips so much instant information and so many opportunities. Today, the library is not just a library: it is a complete home -- of literacy, of joint learning, of peace.

This is the spirit of expansion displayed not only by the library there, but also by the KRIS Library organization as a whole. Including Manicahan, we now have five libraries. KRIS Library - Quezon City has been remodeled with a roof and new shelves of books to accommodate the multitude of children coming from Barangay Holy Spirit's vast slum areas. Meanwhile, the foundations for the libraries in Brgy. Tungawan and Brgy. Timbabauan (that both stand near MILF camps in Zamboanga Sibugay) have been forged. Construction will hopefully be underway in 2012. Furthermore, KRIS Library - Rizal, built in the relocation area for poor victims of Ondoy and fire incidents in Metro Manila, is up and running thanks to our partnership with several Claretian missionaries. And beyond the libraries, thousands of smiles have been sparked and a hundred minds ignited with our numerous books and school supplies distribution, and our prolific scholarship fund that has already given 101 scholarship grants from elementary to college.

Definitely, much has been done. We have taken our advocacy to new frontiers. We have reached further. And we owe it all to you.

KRIS Library, without its sponsors, media partners, volunteers, and many supporters, is nothing. Your every book, your every peso, your reaching hands have gone a long way to uplift education for thousands of children in the Philippines. You, dear KRIS warrior, have made an impact in the life of a child who could be the next Jose Rizal, Albert Einstein, or Mahatma Gandhi; you had helped us give the opportunity of a lifetime. Peace, they say, is a long, complicated process. But we believe this is a good start.

More than three years ago, my family and I arrived here in Zamboanga City. After the long ride from the airport to the town of Manicahan, the first thing I sought to do was to arrange logistics for the upcoming soft opening of KRIS Library - Manicahan. Back then, we were unsure if we could keep the advocacy running. Back then, we couldn't believe we could reach this far. But then we found out the many amazing things people go all the way for to be able to help out.

Now, I am typing from an internet-connected computer in KRIS Library-Manicahan. The place buzzes with life even as Noche Buena is a few hours away. Two of our KRIS scholars huddle between a group of younger lads and teach them the alphabet. Upstairs, veiled Muslim girls who knew nothing about computers three years ago are now expertly discovering their way online.

I have no doubt: this joyful season, KRIS Library owes itself to you, because the wishes of many children this Christmas have already come true.

God bless!
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Rumaida weaves her way online like a pro already. She first learned to expertly use the computer in the KRIS Library.
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Girls from the neighborhood fill KRIS Library - Manicahan's computer room.
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Nhurhaina (in purple veil) and Sitti Mara check their newly-made e-mail accounts.
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Don't be fooled by their innocent faces; these children are very skilled in chess. I myself couldn't beat them!
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Yesterday, I met up with library users to reinforce their knowledge on the internet. These are the kinds of activities that keep the library alive!
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KRIS Library - Manicahan and the other libraries are a dream come true for us. Thank you to everyone involved!
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    Arizza Ann S. Nocum, 18, is the Administrator of KRIS Library - a role which had earned her accolades from Zonta International, the National Library of the Philippines, the Senate, and more. An Oblation Scholar, she is currently taking up BS Industrial Engineering in the University of the Philippines.

     

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