Updates

Teacher and Kids at Pag-asa

July 2012 Update

It’s been 15 years! And together we continue to help more and more children and their families – despite the economic crisis all of us are experiencing for the last years. In fact, 10 new sponsors joined us since February! For this reason we start this update letter with so much gratitude, and our warmest welcome, for them! We assure you: Your help will change the lives of “your” children for the better! In a special way, we want to thank all of you – who remained faithful over all these years.

Family Day 2012

Pag-asa Summer Activities 2012

Pag-asa has just wrapped up its yearly summer activities which include Family day and series of outings for high school and grade school students. View the Pag-asa festive 2012 summer photo albums.

December 2011 Update

Our future SPED (Special Education) teacher, RONALD MANGUIAT, the very first beneficiary of Pag-asa Social Center, is blind and currently doing ‘practice teaching’ for blind children. He has already received public recognition as one of the three BAYANING GURO’s (a hero teacher) during the commemoration of World Teachers’ Day and National Teachers’ Month. The event was aired on local TV last October and inspired all our children, even those without disabilities—to work hard and study well.

Letter from the Mayor of Tagaytay City

Dear Friends,

Allow me to extend to all of you my warmest greetings!

The city of Tagaytay is going ahead with its social economic, cultural and spiritual development, thanks to the close collaboration of various civic and religious groups.

One of the groups whose presence I appreciate is the Focolare Movement, in a particular way, for the concrete contribution they have made to their neighboring indigent communities through their social centers. The PAG-ASA Social Center (“Pag-asa means: hope) has been working steadily since 1998 carrying out several activities in the line with social action, such as:

Christmas Letter to Pag-asa from Chiara Lubich

In questo Natale noi focolarini festeggiamo, oltre il Natale di GesĂč Bambino, anche il 60Âș anniversario della nascita del Movimento dei Focolari: il 7 dicembre 1943.