Hi we completed the playground by Tuesday evening in order to spend as much time as possible building houses for the small village of Lower Bantigue. This is a smashing little fishing village full of friendly people just outside Daanbantayan. Springboard and Hope charity foundations are providing materials and some labour for the families to …
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Another good day we should finish the playground tomorrow as we just have to concrete in the last 4 posts and clean up relaying the turf. We had a growing audience as we get closer and closer to completion. At the start of the day we went down to a community just outside Daanbantayan Bantique …
We have had 2 more days building the playground and today, Sunday a day off. The playground is now really taking shape we have completed the area for the young children with the wooden wigwam the totem poles and the mushrooms. We have put in the elephant and the mushrooms and rocker and 5 spinners. …
We are at the end of day 2 building the playground. Daanbantayan is a lovely seaside community which was very badly hit by the typhoon. It hit the village for just 6 hours and left most of the buildings without a roof and many people with a loved one lost. It is very different here …
We are all sitting about 30 m from the beach in Skips beach resort in Daanbantayan just had dinner lovely food very cheap. The tide comes in for 6 in the morning and we are all planning to go for a swim maybe by the morning we will get to our senses. It is quite …
Little did I know when we said an emotional farewell to the staff at the Shalom centre seemingly for the last time just a few months ago that within weeks I would be back. And the welcome is as warm as ever nothing’s changed about the hotel but it seems so strange without Sholing students …
Hey gang! So we have now been back well over a month, the Ageas bowl event done and dusted, and the 2014 project officially brought to a close. It has been a fantastic experience, and one which I know all involved will cherish for many years to come. A number of people have asked me …
I expect, now that the trip is over this blog may not be read. But I wanted to write about the two weeks, that can only be described as life changing, I have spent with some of the kindest and most caring people I know. There are not words that I can think of that …
I alpologise for this being nearly a week after our return , I don’t even know if people are still reading these but I’m going to blog anyway:) “You Can’t Change The World , But You Can Change Sombodys World” – Freazer This quote has stayed in my mind for the last week and has …
So this is my blog, sorry it’s late and sorry I didn’t blog while I was in the Philippines. But 18 months ago we all applied to go to the Philippines and applied for a life changing experience and boy was it!. The first thing we did to fundraise was a 50k walk but just …
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