BIG BROTHER BIG SISTER
If you are reading this on a weekday, consider yourself lucky. First, you can read. Second, most likely, you are clean and dry.
In another part of the country this very same day, a wide-eyed Marian in ponytails has woken up before the roosters crowed, has trudged through mud, crossed streams on barefoot and arrived hours later with wet muddy legs to attend a small community school.
This is a day in the life of Marian. Never mind the muddy trails, there are those who have it this tough to learn to read and write, only to be deterred by the lack of school materials to get through even one semester.
The Big Brother Big Sister (BBBS) Community Outreach Program in the Philippines is here to help children from deprived families stay in school to keep parents from worrying where to get money for a school bag, notebooks or a mere pencil. On May 18 – 19, 2013, BBBS sponsors and volunteers will carry school supplies, trudge through the same trail as Marian and hand them to the Dumagat children in Casiguran, Aurora Province.
Would you like to be a big brother or big sister to six hundred of these children? Here’s how:
Pledge to sponsor one child for P300 (USD 7.00) – Email to helpbbbs@gmail.com or contact Mai Pudol +639328458388 or Sharon Sarmiento +639152172964.
Come and meet the kids yourself, sign up as a BBBS volunteer.
Send this message to your friends, relatives or colleagues who might wish to help.
Visit us on Facebook: BigBrother BigSister (helpbbbs@gmail.com) for more information.
Marian walked hundreds of small steps to school today … help her stay in school and realize her dreams … because big dreams begin with small steps!
BIG BROTHER BIG SISTER
Big dreams begin with small steps!
Big Brother Big Sister Philippines 