Hong Kong OFWs help poor students in PHL
JEREMAIAH M. OPINIANO,
Institute for Migration and Development Issues
05/24/2011 Hong Kong-based overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) have been helping poor students in Mindanao by providing them with scholarships, among others.
Hong Kong-based Filipino foundation WIMLER Partnership for Social Progress has helped 19 other scholars in Mindanao whose families earn less than a dollar a day.
Darylle Asuncion, 12, one of the scholars at Mlang Pilot Elementary School in North Cotabato, received new school bags and notebooks .
“I am also enjoying free schooling," said Asuncion, who finished his elementary schooling during the last school year with academic honors.
Marilyn Cabardo, Asuncion’s adviser, noticed that Asuncion's attitude has improved greatly.
“I observed some changes in (Darylle’s) attitude. He started to join school activities and recite before the class. He did well in his subjects," Cabardo said.
Asuncion and 19 other students were recommended by the schools’ parents and teachers’ association (PTA) for support by WIMLER.
WIMLER president Leila Rispens-Noel, a Filipina-Dutch, said WIMLER will continue finding sponsors for poor students from Mlang.
WIMLER partners with the PTA, not just for scholarships but also for a school-based vegetable garden and poultry project, one of the highlights of the two-year-old foundation’s 2010 projects.
Rispens-Noel says WIMLER's fund balance at the end of the year 2010 was below a million pesos but the foundation remains committed to continuing its projects.
On graduation day at Mlang Pilot Elementary School, Asuncion wrote a “thank you" note to WIMLER, saying he would definitely have missed Grade VI if WIMLER had not helped him.
“I hope WIMLER can continue to support me," he said in Ilonggo.
The WIMLER Partnership for Social Progress helps women and out-of-school youth. The foundation can be reached at leila.wimler@gmail.com or at info@wimler.org. - VVP, GMA News
Hong Kong-based Filipino foundation WIMLER Partnership for Social Progress has helped 19 other scholars in Mindanao whose families earn less than a dollar a day.
Darylle Asuncion, 12, one of the scholars at Mlang Pilot Elementary School in North Cotabato, received new school bags and notebooks .
“I am also enjoying free schooling," said Asuncion, who finished his elementary schooling during the last school year with academic honors.
Marilyn Cabardo, Asuncion’s adviser, noticed that Asuncion's attitude has improved greatly.
“I observed some changes in (Darylle’s) attitude. He started to join school activities and recite before the class. He did well in his subjects," Cabardo said.
Asuncion and 19 other students were recommended by the schools’ parents and teachers’ association (PTA) for support by WIMLER.
WIMLER president Leila Rispens-Noel, a Filipina-Dutch, said WIMLER will continue finding sponsors for poor students from Mlang.
WIMLER partners with the PTA, not just for scholarships but also for a school-based vegetable garden and poultry project, one of the highlights of the two-year-old foundation’s 2010 projects.
Rispens-Noel says WIMLER's fund balance at the end of the year 2010 was below a million pesos but the foundation remains committed to continuing its projects.
On graduation day at Mlang Pilot Elementary School, Asuncion wrote a “thank you" note to WIMLER, saying he would definitely have missed Grade VI if WIMLER had not helped him.
“I hope WIMLER can continue to support me," he said in Ilonggo.
The WIMLER Partnership for Social Progress helps women and out-of-school youth. The foundation can be reached at leila.wimler@gmail.com or at info@wimler.org. - VVP, GMA News
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