Philippines: Former bedkit recipients

From Philippines 2009 Photo Album

Rabundy Simbulan (Centre in photograph) from Manila received a bedkit in 1983. He is now age 31 and teaching Choreography in a Manila college. He brought to the distribution clothing from his original bedkit to show us proudly. His mother saved these articles because she was so impressed with the quality. His clothing had the SCAW identification on them but this practice was discontinued because it was thought that it would mark the child as being poor but in fact we learned today that it was status symbol and he told us he proudly wore these pyjamas to school.

On left is Fatima Salazer, 17 years old, from Manila area who received a bedkit at eight years of age now is a student at PSBA college in business management.

On the right is Christine Joy Evangeliste, now age 19, who received a bedkit at ten years old. She is now quite proud to be a McDonald's employee and we extracted from her that she is going back to a college in June for computer programming.

From the Philippines 2009 SCAW Travelling Team

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