How do we celebrate humanity? Do we wait
for June 21st of every year
just to be human? Every day should be humanist day. However in our case, we
just want to celebrate it as grandly as we can. And that is how we did it here
in Central Luzon, Philippines. We
decided to have it on June 12, 2019 which coincides with Philippines 121st
Independence Day. We have enough collections and donations to cover the celebration.
We really wanted it to coincide with our national holiday and independence day
at that because we are making a statement that as we celebrate World humanist day we also would want
to be free from poverty & illiteracy. Free from corrupt ideology that
hampers the growth of the indigenous people.
As tradition would have it, any
Independence Day celebration we have, we start it by feeding the group of
children and adults who were with us from the time we started the program. It
is also the time when we can share and give out the collected school supplies
needed for the academic year. It is a work in progress. Usually, as June starts
we would collate the school supplies we needed for the academic year and
collect some more for other needs. My students are like rainbow as we accept
pre-loved uniforms of other children from other schools and we wear them
proudly in the mountain. See, lowlanders sees these uniforms as useless but in
our community we see them as brand-new and something the kids would really look
forward to. They are always excited to see if I did bring new donated uniforms
and bags.
We did pretty good this year as we were
sponsored to have a good set of sandwiches and drinks to start the day.
“True generosity never expects a reward”. Pete Nelson
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