Bahay Kalinga-Valenzuela Outreach Program

Ever since I was elected as one of the faculty club officers, doors of many opportunities to organize and participate in different school-based activities and community services have opened. It is a fulfillment for me to be part of every activity that encouraged the teachers to explore, grow and develop their full potentials, and most specially those activities that help them connect in the real world beyond classrooms. 

Just last Sunday (February 23), the GTDLNHS Faculty Club organized a community service program titled "To Love and Serve." The program aims to sponsor some goods and foods to the beneficiaries of Bahay Kalinga - Valenzuela. Bahay Kalinga , which serves as the homage for hundreds of homeless adults and street children (who are usually victims of abused, violence and abandoned), is an effort of the local DSWD (Department of Social Welfare and Development) to take care of the abandoned and indigent people. 

With my fellow teachers at Bahay Kalinga - Valenzuela

We conducted spiritual counseling and a short lecture about hygiene to the young and adult clients. Our student teachers even prepared a short dance number to entertain and energize them. 

Mrs. Rosalyn Lo, our faculty club president, pledged that the support of our organization to Bahay Kalinga through in-kind donations will be a quarterly endeavor of the club in year round basis. 

My heart melted when I saw the young clients (ages 4 to 7 year old). I couldn't imagine how their parents abandoned and even maltreated them. I just hoped I could do more than this. 

Please if you are also a teacher, do a community service like this. 

Don't say 'we are only teachers, why bother?' 

We may have a 'just to get by' salary, but it should not stop us for thinking ways on how to reach out for the less fortunate. 

This activity made me realize how blessed I am. :')

You are already blessed to have a place you can call your home... and even more blessed to have a loving family that comforts you.