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Children’s Relief Library

Tagum City Children’s Relief Library

Tagum City Childrens ReliefMISSION & VISION

Children love to read stories and watch colorful pictures. Such eagerness is powered by the innate hunger to learn, discover, play, dream, and experiment. By reading, children can travel to magical places. It expands their horizons and breaks limitations. It brings beautiful smiles, joy, and laughter every time.
Reading encourages logical thinking among children. A well-read individual does not only seek self-empowerment. Reading has the power to open minds, unlock secrets and create inventions beneficial to the community. Reading brings progress.
In the Philippines, however, children living in slum areas or belonging to less fortunate families have no access to good books. It seems like they have been robbed of their future. This malady resulted to poverty, corruption, injustice, and loss of hope.
The Rotary Club of Tagum Hope Library will earnestly strive to uproot such evils by giving children hope and progress through reading good books. It will seek contributions here and abroad for new or used books and bring them to slum areas and less fortunate communities in Tagum City. This program carries the tiny voices of children for equal access to good books.
MISSION & VISION

To develop and improve the reading and analytical skills of children especially those coming from less fortunate families and communities in Tagum City and the country at large by giving them free and unlimited access to good and age-appropriate books and materials during reasonable hours.

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Contact Persons:

Borge Galgo ( Tagum )
Galgo Racho & Wakan Law Firm, 2nd Flr., CTC Business Center, Rizal Street, Tagum City
Cellphone #:09479927490

David Wasson
4208 Venus St, 8100 Tagum City
(084)655-9320; 09202368890

Reginald Cua ( Davao )
Magallanes Residences Bolton Extension Davao City
09228240625

Kitchen Donations

This is the first time I have publicly appealed for money. We really need this kitchen and I am counting on the generosity of people like you to get it done. Please help.

$1,000.00 British expat here in davao
$250.00 Robert King
$2,500.00 Fred Lange
$100.00 Shannon Faythe Brown
$50.00 Cassies Confectionary
$100.00 Patsy Wood
$25.00 David Patterson
$50.00 Lee-Anne Robinson
$50.00 Jennie Vu
$1,000 Sammi liaw
$100.00 Carol Kittrick
$100.00 Jonathan West
$75.00 Pamela Powell
$10.00 Audrey Ortega
$50.00 Lillian Moeller
$100.00 Yolanda Jernigan
$100.00 Nancy Hindman

$4,340 USD remains

Will keep updating please share. thanks…

Kitchen Relief Upgrade Costs

This is the first time I have publicly appealed for money. We really need this kitchen and I am counting on the generosity of people like you to get it done. Please help. If you have any questions please feel free to ask me.
Donations for the TCCRI kitchen: (all amounts in USD)
Proposal for the Tagum City Children’s Relief Community Kitchen
1. A 30 sq meter building with tile floors and lots of sliding glass screened windows
2. Secured parking outside for the Mobile Kitchen vehicle
3. 1 double gas oven with 6 burners and a griddle surface @ $2,000 usd
4. 1 3 compartment stainless dish sink with a spray hose @ $1,500 usd
5. 1 two door commercial reach in refrigerator, stainless @ $2,000 usd
6. 1 small commercial chest freezer @ $1,000 usd
7. 2 stainless shelving units for storage @ $1,000 usd
8. 4 stainless or wooden work tables @ $1,000 usd
9. 2”, 4” and 6” full and half hotel pans 24 pieces @ $600 usd
10. 6 Stock pots and 10 stainless mixing bowls , various sizes @ $400 usd
11. Ladles, metal and rubber spatulas, solid and slotted serving spoons @ $300 usd
12. 20 each full sized sheet pans, 12 each ½ sheet pans aluminum @ $400 usd
13. 6 each chafing dishes with fuel for serving @ $400 usd
Total estimate @ $10,600 usd
*The above are estimates only.
(continued)

Why we desperatley need a new Kitchen

Why we desperatley need a new KitchenGod has blessed me with everything I can ever ask for, most especially by winning the love of everyone that knows me well. Something surely money cannot buy. Therefore it is my duty to help the least fortunate in every little way I can,

This is my mission for 2017, to make it a reality! the food bank and why we desperately need a new kitchen. I could talk about sanitation, the 4-hour rule between cooking and serving, about how many more kids we can help with a real kitchen.

The commercial kitchen will cost approx $10K…… will publish more when I get the final quote

Please help in any way you can. (continued)

But just watch and you will know why.

Is the help really helping

Is the Help really HeplingIme asked me a very important question today:

“Is the help really helping or is it just creating more dependence and not empowering people to work hard to get out of their situation? How do we draw the line between help that helps and help that further traps beneficiaries in the cycle of dependency?”

Well it’s a compelling question, isn’t it?! I have been asked this question ever since I started feeding severely malnourished babies in Mindanao back to health (2010). Please notice that that has a VERY defined goal embedded in it, maybe because I am a child of the 60s and after the Vietnam war we realized that any armed action should have clearly defined and obtainable goals, and after all, charity work IS a type of armed action, it’s just that we are armed with food and education and books instead of napalm and bullets.

I strongly believe that any type of help to any person anytime (including you and I) is simply a sharing of hope and that is by itself a very powerful message. I see “learned helplessness” in the eyes of the children and their mothers every day. They know that their life sucks even at such young ages (pre-school) and they are starting to think it will always suck. None of them ever look at us and think, “Oh boy, free food today, I’ll worry about tomorrow when it gets here.” By the end of the 13-week program they are not only back to health (our stated goal) but they also have a smile back in their eyes that says to me “Maybe my life will not always suck so bad.” Hope.

David Wasson of the Tagum City Food Bank, Mindanao
David Wasson of the Tagum City Food Bank, Mindanao
There are always collateral benefits to any charity program that are not so readily noticeable. We let the kids check out a book every week from our little library. We give the mothers classes on things like budgeting, breastfeeding, nutrition, growing vegetables. We give them vegetable starts so the kids can grow their own food and share it with the family. We give the 3 kilos of rice every week after lunch directly to the kids; they know that is their rice, not mom’s or uncle Bobong’s. We give them shoes and vitamins. Those are all the noticeable things. But we have also given 30 other mothers in the same situation (empowerment as women) as we introduced to them the programs and people in their barangay that can help them—and they meet an array of people dedicated to helping them, and that gives them hope. You have to be looking to see hope in a child’s eyes.

There is a lot to be said for charity work, but watch out for feel good projects. I mean it feels good to do a mass feeding but it doesn’t really help much beyond a one-time hot meal (usually lugaw and not nutritionally balanced). Again I want a clearly defined attainable goal. I have restored 700 severely malnourished pre-school children to health. All 700 will do better in school, be taller, and have less trouble with health, the law and many other correlated results of being malnourished as a baby. This made a measurable difference and helped them toward an education and a road out of the crushing poverty they live in.

One last question—the idea that parents don’t care about their children. If what you see is abandoned kids on the streets, living in garbage cans, (the abuse they endure is really unimaginable), it would be easy to come to the conclusion that they don’t care. But I will never believe it. ALL parents—drug addicts, criminals, alcoholics—wish they could take care of their children even if they can’t. There is a difference between being lost and having no idea how to love your kids and not wanting to. Even if their own capacity to deal with life is destroyed, the child still has a chance. We can’t really know what the back story of each child is, or the parents whose own stories are likely just as bad as the child’s. We take them one case at a time and do whatever we can from our own perspectives and pray for a lasting change.

(Ime’s note: If you would like to know more about Tagum City Food Bank, or to help Chef David with his programs, please visit http://tagumfoodbank.org for more information.)

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