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It’s been a long journey but by God’s grace and through the prayers and financial support of our friends and donors, we’re almost there. We’re getting closer to opening the doors of our orphanage facility in the Philippines.
The work to shelter and care for orphans, abused, neglected, and abandoned children is monumental and needs to be shared by every sector in society. We’re contributing to this work by constructing a Christian orphan care facility in Tanjay City, Negros Oriental, Philippines.
Here are some highlights from this video report by the Managing Director of Philippine Mission Casa Esperanza of Angels, Mr. Ronald Brown:
:: Opening date of the facility
:: The need to construct a family cottage to administer the orphanage
:: The Sitio Baybay Community Outreach initiative
:: Progress on the construction of the first children’s home
There were some unavoidable delays during the construction of the first children’s house and the facility might not push through with the planned opening this year, but Mr. Brown confirmed that the facility will start accepting orphaned children late this year or early next year.
Graphic color enhanced images of a wonderful display of drums, music and dancing. Enjoy Tanjay City Sinulg Fiesta Month of July.
Graphic color enhanced images of a wonderful display of drums, music and dancing. Enjoy Tanjay City Sinulg Fiesta Month of July.
Graphic color enhanced images of a wonderful display of drums, music and dancing. Enjoy Tanjay City Sinulg Fiesta Month of July.
Graphic color enhanced images of a wonderful display of drums, music and dancing. Enjoy Tanjay City Sinulg Fiesta Month of July.
The boy in blue shirt bought this bangka as his means of transportation from their place to the city & vice versa for him to finish his schooling which he believes that will help him change his life forever.
History of Bangka:
Outrigger canoes were originally developed by the Austronesian speaking peoples of the islands of Southeast Asia for sea travel, and were used to transport these peoples both eastward to Polynesia and New Zealand and westward across the Indian Ocean as far as Madagascar during the Austronesian migration period. Even today, it is exclusively among the Austronesian groups (Malay, Micronesian, Melanesian and Polynesian peoples) that outrigger canoes are used.
When Magellan's ships first encountered the Chamorros of the Mariana Islands in 1521, Antonio Pigafetta recorded that the Chamorros' sailboats far surpassed Magellan's in speed and maneuverability. In fact, the Micronesian sailing canoe, the proa, was the fastest sailing vessel in existence well into the 20th century.
The technology has persisted into the modern age. Outrigger canoes can be quite large fishing or transport vessels, and in the Philippines, outrigger canoes (called bangka, parao or balanghai) are often fitted with gasoline engines.
Graphic color enhanced images of a wonderful display of drums, music and dancing. Enjoy Tanjay City Sinulg Fiesta Month of July.
Graphic color enhanced images of a wonderful display of drums, music and dancing. Enjoy Tanjay City Sinulg Fiesta Month of July.
Rent motorcycle for only Php 100.00 for 5 hours. Leave your valid IDs and sign a contract, go and explore Dumaguete. Enjoy your trip!
Noli C. Narvaez and Jose Mari Diago
Graphic color enhanced images of a wonderful display of drums, music and dancing. Enjoy Tanjay City Sinulg Fiesta Month of July.
Picture of me in front of a scenic vista on the side of a mountain overlooking the Tanjay Valley, Negros Oriental, Philippines. The lighter green areas in the valley are sugarcane fields.
(Photo by Debra K. Green.)
Update: I've decided this is a terrible picture of me! :D
Graphic color enhanced images of a wonderful display of drums, music and dancing. Enjoy Tanjay City Sinulg Fiesta Month of July.
Casa Esperanza of Angels volunteer Vergielyn Cubol befriends some of the Sitio Baybay kids during our community outreach initiative last January 28. Photo taken at Tanjay City, Negros Oriental, Philippines.
Graphic color enhanced images of a wonderful display of drums, music and dancing. Enjoy Tanjay City Sinulg Fiesta Month of July.
Graphic color enhanced images of a wonderful display of drums, music and dancing. Enjoy Tanjay City Sinulg Fiesta Month of July.
Graphic color enhanced images of a wonderful display of drums, music and dancing. Enjoy Tanjay City Sinulg Fiesta Month of July.
Graphic color enhanced images of a wonderful display of drums, music and dancing. Enjoy Tanjay City Sinulg Fiesta Month of July.
Graphic color enhanced images of a wonderful display of drums, music and dancing. Enjoy Tanjay City Sinulg Fiesta Month of July.
Graphic color enhanced images of a wonderful display of drums, music and dancing. Enjoy Tanjay City Sinulg Fiesta Month of July.
Graphic color enhanced images of a wonderful display of drums, music and dancing. Enjoy Tanjay City Sinulg Fiesta Month of July.
Lazi
Siquijor Island
The Philippines
"My Parents' Dream"
After the end of WWII in 1946, my parents decided to build a house and call Lazi, in Siquijor Island, our permanent home. This, instead of Tanjay, in the main Island of Negros, where my father's family came from.
Sadly, all plans took to a stand-still, when my father all so suddenly died of a heart attack in January 1949, whilst bathing with my older brother Jerry, at a river bank in Tanjay.
I was barely three years old.
In spite of all odds against her... of only a 4th grade schooling, and no income to fall upon, yet with the help of my older siblings who took to odd jobs as College students in the big City of Dumaguete, my mother still, decided to pursue my father's dream.
In a property purchased earlier by my parents... column after column and piece by piece, in a little corner of Lazi, a house was slowly beginning to stand.
Of a main door with no lock, of missing walls and of missing shutters, through these long and lean years of the mid-50s, this skeleton of a house stood proud and strong for us all.
It would also still take a few more years for a roof in place, to cover the whole house.
A distant horizon far beyond reach to complete, it was then realized that only one large room would be safe and comfortable enough for us younger and early-school-aged siblings... a safe haven for everyone to live by.
In a storm, wind, rain and the cold, would fill our room through open walls and missing shutters... and yet, we endured.
For a change we knew, in the calm of evenings, a gentle breeze, the sounds of crickets, a flicker of moonbeam and dancing shadows of leafy fronds... these and beyond would instead rule over and lull everyone of us to a state of dreamy slumber, to welcome a new morrow.
In what would later be the Miraflor Manors, at 52 Jose Romero Street, in Lazi, Negros Oriental, this two storey house, of missing walls, of open windows, of missing shutters, a single room... stood as the pillar that held us together, for those long and lean years.
But alas, wear, tear and a fading horizon would then take over my parents' yet unfulfilled dream.
The house... our pillar, still remained unfinished, losing its fight and deteriorating fast against time. It needed repairs. But it was just too out of reach for all, of the never-ending challenge to pursue and catch the dream.
Soon and in the mid-60s... a family decision was reached. With a new Architect in the family, it was then decided to start fresh, over again.
Although of similar odds on limited resources, brighter days and happier times were seen ahead. It was then time for a new beginning, a change for a better life of happy days.
A renewed future and then... a new house was born.
It has now been over 50 years since.
Today, we the living continue to pursue the dream our departed parents and our departed siblings, have always and ever wished for.
Perhaps soon enough, this dream will now finally come true.
And I will make sure that it does...
In memory of all our dearly departed. - Island Lures
Photograph by : Alannis Richen aka Lazi
Original print : Island Lures, Family Archive
Male (left) and female crabs in the mangrove mud, seconds before they started to mate.
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Graphic color enhanced images of a wonderful display of drums, music and dancing. Enjoy Tanjay City Sinulg Fiesta Month of July.
Graphic color enhanced images of a wonderful display of drums, music and dancing. Enjoy Tanjay City Sinulg Fiesta Month of July.