The first week has been amazing. 2 weeks just doesn’t feel like enough any more! On Monday, we toured around the place. We saw Tondo school, the dumpsite, the new container school and Novatas, the cemetary school. It was a shock seeing so many people living in these conditions, but everyone still smiles at you …
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Experiences Revisited
After one week into our stay here in manila, it has been a week leaving many both physically and mentally drained. I have spent most of the working week on the playground, and having undergone more digging, carrying, and cementing in those few days more than any other time in my life, seeing how much …
New Photo’s
We’ve put a new album of photo’s from the first week of the trip on the website in the Photo’s section – go check them out! There should be a new video up soon too…
So far – Mrs Lewis
What an incredible experience and it has only been a week. What has struck me the most is despite the poverty of the people that we have met they all say ‘hello’ and ‘what is your name?’ and smile at you. This has helped when we have been in the old library clearing books to …
Building a house
Eric Thursday 11th Feb Day 1 Tuesday Having offered to do anything PCF wanted me to I suppose I should have been prepared for just that, but nothing I have ever done before prepared me for the challenge that materialized. The visit to the dump site is like nothing on earth. The lasting image is …
Charlotte and Zoë’s day feeding the families of the dumpsite
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 …
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Rosie’s blog
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 …
First Day Of Work In the New School.
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) …
9th February
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 …
In Manila… rest day!
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!
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