Saturday, April 22, 2006
Today,
we took our BS sponsored child, Sarah, to SM Sucat for some grocery
items and a pair of sandals as the pair she was wearing were rented
from a friend for two pesos, about 4 cents American dollars.
We started out at 10 AM when Rose Marie and Fred, the driver, dropped
by at Laila's house to pick us up. Again the traffic was terrible
as MMDA was doing some road works along Epifanio delos Santos Avenue
(EDSA). I am starting to learn the names of some of the cities
around here. Anyway near the airport is Tramo, Parañaque City
where Sarah and her family live in a depressed area.
We met
Sarah, Shiela, and their mother up at McDonalds and then took a short
drive over to the SM Sucat Mall. On the way, we were talking
about possible places to eat when Laila mentioned Chow King and we
found that the kids had not been there yet, so Chow King it was.
We parked the van in a basement and met Riel at Chow King. After
Laila had them remodel the place to accomodate our group (she is very
good at that), we sat down to a meal of Sweet and Sour Pork, Chicken,
Pancit Bihon, Rice and other stuff. The meal was great and the
kids really stuffed themselves as did everyone else.
After the meal we all went upstairs to the food section to buy food for
Sarah and her family. Laila, who is always really observant of
things caught Sarah's mother trying to add things to the list like milk
formula for her son's baby and things like that. We were there to
spend our money on Sarah and her needs other than the extended family.
We went ahead and filled up a shopping cart with grocery items and then
took them to Tramo where we put them on a tricycle for home. It
was great to see the smiles on Sarah and her sister's face as they
left, even though we have the feeling that their mother would probably
sell some of the food for cash. Sort of how the welfare folks in
the states do.
Anyway, we then headed back to Laila's house which again took quite a
while as the traffic again was miserable. She didn't know about
the traffic because she had slept through the trip back. I look
forward visiting Sarah and the Save the Children again on my next
visit. It was a very good feeling to be helping someone less
fortunate than ourselves and Laila and myself enjoyed it alot.
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