Lapis @ Papel Project 2015 Part II

Our Lapis at Papel Project 2015 did not end at Quinomay Elementary School. After having lunch at Quinomay, we are now headed to Salay Elementary School. We went down the mountain and rode again the dump truck and our other companions the tricycles. I was totally unaware of the hour and the length of our travel due to the bumpy ride that again we must endure. I think one of the consolations that we got from taking the ride at the dump truck is that we enjoy a good view of the town of Mansalay.

Since Salay Elementary School is not located in the mountains, we transferred from the dump truck to a tricycle when we reached a cemented road. Unlike Quinomay, the road going to Salay is less bumpy.

parents with the students waiting for us

We were welcomed by almost the whole community of Salay. Salay Elementary School is bigger than Quinomay, which is consisting of three buildings, in which one is still being constructed. There are also a lot more students compared to Quinomay. 

boys waiting for school supplies to be given to them

The principal and other school officials held a small program thanking The Lapis @ Papel Project for the school supplies that we will give. During the program, the principal told us that classes have not yet started at their school because students don’t have any school supplies that they can used. This is the reason they asked helped from the mother of Ms. Liz for any school supplies donation.

Ms. Liz giving out a message to the school

Students were asked to fall in line for the distribution of the school supplies. Meanwhile my friends prepared the items to be distributed while the teachers facilitates in taking care the line of students per grade level. Just like in Quinomay, we personally handed the school supplies to the students.  

the line of students

a friend of mine giving the school supplies

grade 2 and 3 students receiving school supplies

The school supplies that we have donated are not as complete like the ones in Quinomay. But we made sure that each students can received something that they can used may it be a pad paper, a notebook, pencil or ballpen. After giving out school supplies to every student, there are still some that was left. Games of Question and Answer and Bring Me were played and winners got the other school supplies and even some clothes and slippers. But the games were not just for the kids, there was also a game made for the adults that can win them a pair of slippers.

When all the donations were given out, the faculty and school administration treated us to a merienda of spaghetti, nilupak and suman.