Donations from the US go directly into the feeding and teaching ministries employing up to eight teachers and lay workers in the Philippines. With the meal they give lessons in English, sing songs and share stories from the Bible. In many cases these meals are the only whole meal these children receive. Each week Lucita prepares and helps deliver meals for over 200 needy children in the Bacolod Area. Barangays farther out are serviced by loading the food into a Jeepney, rented to deliver the food to the feeding areas.
Parents help in the songs and Bible lessons and directing the children during the actual feeding.
Here a feeding under one of the nipa huts shows a few of the children being fed. Children and Barangays are selected for inclusion in the feeding program based on the individual needs. Here the Filipino workers can assess far better than Americans what the needs are. We are not here to Americanize Filipino's but to enable Christian Filipinos to reach out to their own people in a tangible, effective way. While public schools in the Philippines are free the cost of books and uniforms are not.