At Jebaca Elementary School

 

We nearly didn’t make it to Jebaca Elementary School. It is located in a remote area in Maayon, Capiz and we had a difficult time to get there. As we have a compact car, we couldn’t forge through running water that had accumulated from rains of the previous day. We had to turn back and wait for the school to send us an SUV to help us get to their school. We almost left and it would have been a huge disappointment for the kids who had been waiting for us all morning. Thank goodness we didn’t go home after the initial setback.

The school is up on the hill with a narrow road leading up to it. Some of the classrooms are situated on the lower slope.

Here are the kids who patiently waited for us.

We passed by this hanging bridge on our way to the school.

The countryside is lush and green.

Here was our Waterloo. The descent is quite steep and the water was streaming down the side like a waterfall. 

We were also able to give shoes to some families with infants from the Smiley and Kai Shoes Program.

So glad we made it to Jebaca. It was a pleasure to meet Jibbs Bigas, the principal, and his staff. Thank you so much to the STEELE Family Charitable Trust and especially to Gary Steele for this wonderful opportunity to help the children in Jebaca succeed in school with the school supplies we gave them.

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