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Will you share a notebook? - A BBBS outreach initiative

October 6, 2009

365 students of Eastern Star Academy in San Mateo, Rizal, Philippines lost everything in the flood. Typhoon Ondoy (international codename:  Ketsana) took their books, notebooks and school items.  The flood has subsided and the students will resume school on Monday, October 12.  The question of the students is:  “How do we go back to school with nothing?”

Yes, they can share books for the meantime.
No, they can not share a notebook with their classmate.
But you can share a notebook with them, WILL YOU?

For only P 120.00 of US$ 2.60, you can give one student the notebooks and writing pads that the flood has rendered useless.  We need to raise P 45,000 or US$ 962.00 to help all 365 children.  Will you share a notebook? (more…)

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