Book Shipment--Arrived!

These are the teachers from Alinunu Elementary school. Mrs. Pacis, the head teacher, is the woman in the front row, second from the right.

So we heard a little while ago that our big shipment of books has arrived in the Philippines! From what we hear, they were laying out all the books to try and figure out how much shelf space they will need. At the moment, the head teacher's office is the makeshift library, and they are putting together a little lean-to outside the office where the students can read.

It was interesting how the school supplies we sent were received, though. Classrooms there don't normally have stocks of extra school supplies for the students, so when they got the boxes of crayons and pencils, they were thinking of giving them out as prizes. When we told them our intent of how the supplies be used, they were a little surprised, but agreed it was a good idea.

We have another set of books that we would like to ship to the Philippines, but we don't have the funds at the moment to send them. We would appreciate any assistance you can provide to help us send this off!