With the Mission to give hope and help our needy
countrymen, Akyat Aral Org is on a look out once again for another
community to help and conduct its charitable projects. A friend of one of
AA's Officer, Mr Dave Macariola, the Tourism Officer of Gen. Tinio,
Nueva Ecija got to introduce to us the the Dumagat Tribe
of Sitio Bulak in Rio Chio, N.E., Though he is really promoting their
municipalities priced gem, the "MINALUNGAO" National Park, he also asked
the group to help their Minorities ,and that's how it all
started.
The
Dumagats are of the Agta Negrito group found in Luzon, another indigenous people living in the Sierra Madre Mountain
range. The Dumagats are semi-nomadic. They are moving from place to place in
search of better habitation. Recently the Dumagats learned to live permanently,
in the different location of Luzon.
Akyat Aral deployed it 2 officers
namely; Sherill Bacani & Emer De Jesus to went for an
ocular inspection of the place. With the assistance of Mr Macariola
& a member of an NGO in Gen. Tinio, Ms Carmen Manuel, they were able to
climb up to Sitio Bulak riding a motorcycle locally called as
"Kolong-kolong" owned by the family of Ms Aileen Pajarillaga, the
Volunteer teacher of the school situated in Sitio Bulak.
Armed
with the belief, advocacies and personal commitment to reach out and touch
thousand of children and families in
different community and ethnicity. The Akyat Aral two
man team never wasted time and immediately proceeds to Sitio Bulak, a
two hours ride with the Kolong Kolong( a kind of
tricycle) to find out the needs of the people and most especially the kids
Getting
more time for an interview with the teacher, they learn more about the teacher,
and they discovered a new breed of (unsung) heroes of our nation, in her own
little way, but a big help on her students as well as the Dumagat community in
Sitio Bulak.
Teacher
Aileen was teaching the Dumagat for over 4 year. She together with her family
had devotedly been helping and teaching our “DUMAGAT” brothers and sisters
residing in this mountainous areas of
Nueva Ecija. Enduring the travel the travel up the muddy and treacherous trails
going to the sitio just to teach these people is already a big challenge.
She
had been teaching the Dumagat kids with little less school supplies and
utilizing all resources just to ensure that her students would be able to learn
to at least read and write.
In Sitio Bulak, there is only one classroom,
and it is not either a formal learning school accredited by DEPED, it is only a
DSWD Day Care Center, with only an integrated learning system only focusing
only basic skill learning like reading and writing. With an interview with the
school Teacher Aileen Pajarillaga
She
is very concern about their classroom, since the rainy season has arrived,
she's afraid that the room would not withstand storms/typhoons since it is only
made up of "sawali"(a thin sheet of weaved bamboo strips) and that
the walls and flooring are already dilapidated and the roofs are leaking.
Our goal for this place is to be able to repair or much better to build new classroom for this community
To our two man team congratulation, job well done..
To our two man team congratulation, job well done..
Big thumb up. Continue the good work
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