A Fourteen year old Arianne Andrade, fulfils her mother’s responsibilities to her younger Brothers and Sisters( 4 of them), when her mother and two other sisters work as house keepers away from home; going back home during the weekend, and her one armed father making charcoal out of cut trees from the mountain.
Making ways to be always at our Saturday basic literacy and learning review with her brothers and sisters, Gina our Volunteer Teacher finds out that she is more than willing to learn.
She told Gina how she was force to stop her 5 grade school studies because of poverty, that her mother and sisters need to work for a living and she must to attend her little brothers and sisters while their father is up in the mountain.
She shares her dream and vision of being a school teacher someday.
But when Gina shared to her about our ALS ( Alternative Learning System), which gives opportunities for the out of school youth) under our Department of Education in Partnership with Goducate Learning Center; she happily showed her interest for study to finish her Elementary Grade.
For two weeks already she had been faithful attending the class in our learning center, and also earning her allowance through our Goducate soap- making livelihood project of Php 2/ per soap, together with two other students.
– Leo, Goducate Representative, Laguna, Philippines.