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09 Dec, 2008
Please click back to this post to check if your transfer or remittance has been received into the marketmanila.com feeding program bank account. So far, more than PHP110,000 has been received through this account. Many thanks for your donations. The children will truly appreciate your assistance. This account will remain…
08 Dec, 2008
There are still over 250 Christmas ornaments left for the Marketmanila.com feeding program. I hope you can drop by the second pick-up date/location at Heel Sew Quick shoe repair and alterations shop at the basement level of Megamall near the underpass (under the street that dissects the mall at street level), near the…
05 Dec, 2008
Just a reminder if you wanted to drop off a donation for the marketmanila.com feeding program and get an ornament and card from MM, Family & Crew in return, that we will be at the Saturday Salcedo market on Saturday 6 December 2008 from 8 – 11 a.m. We will be located near…
05 Dec, 2008
Her name is Elizabeth, aged 7 and in Grade 2. She was the photogenic girl whose image I used in the cards printed for this year’s fund raising program. She comes from a large family with many siblings. Mother is working in Manila, father struggles to feed all of the family….
05 Dec, 2008
I attended a marketmanila.com reader sponsored feeding at the Banawa Elementary School in Cebu the other day and here are some of the photos. It was sort of a special event as it signaled an extension of the feeding program through the end of the school year in 2009. Over 100 kids…
26 Nov, 2008
Thursday is Thanksgiving Day in the United States, the country that records the largest number of readers of this blog, vying closely with readers based in the Philippines. Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays, and I love the idea of celebrating a bountiful harvest, to have a big gathering of family and…
25 Nov, 2008
Perhaps as many as 60-70% of all Filipino students today never manage to finish and graduate from high school. The data is a bit sketchy and less than reliable, but I suspect the range is pretty accurate. I am not sure what percentage then go onto finish a four year college program,…
24 Nov, 2008
Finally, after the eyeball and a horrible cold/cough that followed it, I can concentrate on the marketmanila.com feeding program for 2008. In a post a few weeks ago, I asked you how many would be willing to continue to support the feeding program that we started last year, and which has so far…