We have our first person that will be getting a Doctorate in education with the help of AF, Jek Jek in Cebu Philippines, congratulations to all who have helped Jek Jek and Congratulations to you Jek Jek himself.
In Phnom Penh Cambodia Vanny Puthcan just received her MBA.
In Bacolod Philippines Lorena, an orphan at the Eborda house in San Carlos negro Occidental, received her college diploma in business and has just opened up a Pepsi Franchise.
Also in San Carlos Wenefreda Panuelos just graduated college and passed her Board Exams for primary education.
In the Panuelos Family Angelica is permanently employed at the hospital as a nurse, and Sansin is a civil engineer, doing some big projects including 2 huge solar panel farms.
In Manila Precious Pamela graduated and is now teaching. Nikki Salvador Loro, her mom, has a really good civil service job in charge of trash collection in a big Barangay, about 20 huge trash trucks and a large force of employees to manage particularly difficult during the storms and fires.
In Haiti Maurice is back in business, painting and making frames and selling his art. 2 ladies that shared the large tent after the earthquake are back in business,one a wholesale vegetable business the other the clothing business, in Tanzania, Goma and his neighbors are doing well with their farms that we helped with the irrigation.
In Cebu and Negros Occidental in the Philippines – this year 5 children’s hospitals, a huge function at the Everlasting Hope Party for Cancer Kids and their families.
The most fun was going around Cebu finding really poor areas and giving presents to children that had never seen a Santa or received a present, Santa was on tv and also the front page of the newspaper. We estimate about 9000 gifts given to about 4000 people. Santa was truly ready for a rest after his last big party 30 DEC.
In the Philippines I think we have 7 students in Tesda, which is a trade school program the Philippine education system has.
We built a new school for families from Chenneng that moved to work on the new rubber/banana plantation.
We have 4 girls that went through part of their education at our schools in Chenneng, that we helped send to high school, that want to go on to college. The first from our school.