Day 4: Today was one of the most overwhelming experiences of our trip so far! We both thought it was going to be another day of packing books at Tondo, but then Bezza (Mr Berry) offered a place for 2 people to work with the feeding programme at the dumpsite, and we both jumped at …
Continue reading “Charlotte and Zoë’s day feeding the families of the dumpsite”
On day on we arrived on the plane (13 hours )then got off with shocked looks on our faces it was amazing and it was boiling, day 2 we hiked up a volcano and I took forever, day 3 some of us went on a school trip with some of the Tondo school children they …
Tuesday 9th February: Today was our first proper day of work, we split into three groups to do different jobs, one group worked in the Tondo school to prepare food for the children and do other jobs, another took grade one and kindergarten kids out on a field trip, and the last group (including me) …
First day of work and it was HOT! Different groups got spilt up to go to the dumpsite, the container school, Tondo school and field trip. I went to the container school with Grace, Charlotte, Alex, Ben, Mick, Nozza, Daniel, Stephen Jeffers, Hutch, Tom, Mark and Julia. We arrived at the school and started digging …
We have arrived in Manila and settled into the accommodation. Today we took a day trip out to the Taal Volcano, and tomorrow we begin work at the PCF schools… More soon!
We have arrived in Hong Kong after over 11 hours on the plane… two hours to recover then another 3 hour flight to Manila!
When Eric Freeman and Dave Berry first talked about walking from the south coast of Wales to the north coast of Wales, it seemed a good idea at the time. The plan was to start from Caswell Bay just west of Swansea, journeying north through the Carmarthenshire Fans to Llandovery. Then to travel via the …
Anyone who has witnessed at first hand the poverty of Manila’s underclass knows that they are amongst the very poorest people on the planet. Men, women and children forage an existence from the mountains of garbage discarded by more fortunate Filipinos. For almost ten years, the Hedge End based charity, the Philippines Community Fund (PCF) …
Margaret, a lay preacher at a local church holds a coffee morning every year in aid of action for children. This year she invited me along so that I could raise money for my individual sponsorship. In the weeks before the coffee morning I contacted Laura, a member of the Philippine Community Fund. She gave …
For our team building we went to Woodmill and done a number of activities, Low Ropes course, Tunnelling, Raft building, and three other excercises but i cant remember the names of . When most of the members were here Mr Berry took most of the lads first to Woodmill then when everyone was at Woodmill …
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