Abandoned babies need your help

Grace to be Born is a Pasig-based shelter for abandoned babies and pregnant mothers. Last November, Isang Bata donated medicines and vitamins for the children and pregnant moms.

The shelter currently needs more support. The babies need Bonna infant formula, and the moms and shelter staff need rice. Donations in kind or cash will be accepted.

If you have extra, please please send them to these babies and mommies in need. Get in touch with me through this site, email (imelda.aznar@yahoo.com), or mobile phone (09062457910). Thank you.

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Coming from the Shelter, a journal excerpt

written on november 29, 2009 after my visit to grace to be born shelter, home for abandoned babies and mothers

... so now that my heart and hand brim with desire to offer a poem for A, the 3month old baby i just met at the shelter 2 hours ago, i couldnt find the words. i remember clearly how soft his skin was and how small the fingers, his eyes were too expressive for his age and i had this feeling that at 3months he knew that he was an orphan, and that his mother was not coming back for him. i held his hands and touched his toes for many minutes. i tried to leave twice and twice he "called" for me. on my third attempt to go, i just left him with a whispered "have a good life". because how does one write about things like this? a kind of pain so different from all the other pain i have in my life now, yet definitely not less significant. but a pain i would have loved to honor with a decent poem, had i the wisdom to find the right words...

Puypuy Project Update

We at Isang Bata are in need of the following for our Puypuy Elementary School Back-to-School project:

40 grade 1 pads
40 writing notebooks
40 pencil cases
35 pencils
40 sharpeners
40 boxes of 8s crayons
50 envelope bags
books for grade 1 students (for their library)
plus, anything else that you might want to donate, in cash or kind.

Donations will be accepted until the first week of June. Spread the word!

Let's Give Young Children A Good Beginning This School Year

Isang Bata is one year old! To celebrate this milestone, Isang Bata, together with The Forest Club, is launching a back-to-school program for fifty Grade 1 kids from Puypuy Elementary School, Bay, Laguna.

As they start their elementary education, we want to inspire these children, make them feel good about school, and help give them a good start this June.

Barangay Puypuy is one of the poorest barangays in Bay, Laguna. The kids definitely need all the help we can give them.

Isang Bata is inviting you to be a part of this project. Start looking around your home for usable books, notebooks, paper and other school supplies that you might want to donate. Or you can add a few items for the children when you do your back-to-school shopping this May. And if there is any other way you want to contribute or participate, please do not hesitate to call me, Ime, at 09062457910 or send me an email through blubitel@yahoo.com