It is with mixed emotions that today we conclude our SCAW bedkit distribution of 1000 kits. In total 6000 children will be sleeping much better thanks to SCAWs’ most generous donors. As Sue said “it is surreal”.
Some children were very excited while others were apprehensive and shy but overall all were overjoyed as were their families.
Our first site was in a community centre while the second one was at a secondary school.
At the first site we had a significant number of mountain kids , Aeta, who are significantly smaller in stature.
At the second site many of the children were engaged in a special reading program.
As always our local partners , the Kiwanis members plus others readily and happily stepped up to get the job done and resolve any and all challenges we faced; such as when the truck carrying 500 bedkits was too high and would hit the electrical lines necessitating unloading and the relocation of the 500 kits, as anxious children and families waited.
All stepped up to help: some on foot, others by a small vehicles and to our amazement even the local ambulance and its people helped out.
These pictures say what words can not.
