Posted in family on March 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We have been soliciting for children’s books, encyclopedias, children’s videos like Disney movies, educational and learning videos. So far, we have few pledges and we are already very excited and grateful. Our goal is to send as much as we can by end of April to Dynamic Teen Company.
If you are interested in donating to [...]
Posted in family on March 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Bon Reonal of Orange County, California started a book drive that would benefit the less privileged schools and libraries in Asia, Africa, South America and other third world countries.
Bon has collected and sent 10 boxes to St. Michael Academy in Albay, Philippines. In 2006, 3 typhoons hit that province and St. Michael’s library was [...]
Posted in family on March 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Below are kids and youth volunteers in the Dynamic Teen Company Program (DTC):
We would like to extend our mission and help Efren and his (God bless them) volunteers. Together with Project Pearls, we would like to raise enough funds so we could support and buy various school supplies for the kids of Dynamic Teen Company.
Part [...]
Posted in family on March 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Embedded video from CNN Video
Efren Penaflorida, a Filipino, has been recognized as one of the “2009 CNN Heroes” for his outstanding advocacy to educate Filipino out-of-school youth through “pushcart” classes. (source:wikipilipinas.org)
His story, his mission is very moving and very inspirational and it touched my heart deeply and greatly. And we would like to extend our [...]
Posted in family on March 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Because of our first success, we are more inspired than ever in continuing this humble mission of helping Tina and family, our farm caretakers’ eight young children. Hopefully, we can somehow continue to make a difference to their lives.
We are in the process of making more bracelets and we are also making earrings and [...]
Posted in family on March 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
During the 2008 holiday season, we launched our first project. We called it “Project Pearls Bracelets”. We made several bracelets using pearls and other gems and sold them to family and friends for $10 each. We,had a huge success with our first project! We were able to raise almost $700! Because of that, we were [...]
Posted in family on March 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Our humble mission is to help these kids and my friend, Tina. My daughter, Francesca and my niece, Pam, met them last summer and they were touched by their story and their passion for school and getting an education. They pledged to help them as much as they can. We called our humble mission, PROJECT [...]
Posted in food, wtf, tagged obama, sushi on March 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
from shirts, posters, key chains, buttons, bumper stickers, dolls, i think this one beats them all! OBAMA SUSHI!!! better taste good with the brown rice!
Posted in family on March 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
(left to right: Desiree, Luz, Tina)
This is their home located in a slum area
Back in the Philippines, I have a childhood friend named Tina who is deaf and mute. Tina was my “sidekick”. She belongs to a very poor family and never attended school. When she was 15, she had a daughter out [...]
Posted in OMG, inspirations, tagged adam lambert, american idol, idol, paula abdul, randy, simon cowell on March 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
okay i admit that american idol is one of my guilty pleasures… my favorite last season was david cook and this season is adam lambert! adam is unbelievably insane! did u guys see him tonight? OMG! I will already pay to see him perform! I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE ADAM LAMBERT! and heck yeah [...]
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