Since last Saturday, Goducate has been setting up tent schools or putting tarpaulin on schoolrooms that lost their roofs in the villages in North Panay that were hit by Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda). There are four teams going round doing this.
At each school where these structures are set up, a Teachers’ Appreciation Day is held. The teachers deserve the appreciation because many have themselves lost homes, yet they turn up to teach under very difficult conditions. Each class appoints a representative to say words of appreciation to their teachers, and the students sing for their teachers, and present their teachers with thank-you cards that they have made and flowers they have picked up from the roadside. In addition, the Goducate massage team offers the teachers some stress relief.
The teachers have been touched by the gestures of appreciation, in some cases to the point of tears.
