Help with Food
The Philippines: first day out
Taytay
Today we went to school in Taytay as the Star of Hope operated since 1989. Today there are 2 500 students from primary school grade 1 up to "high school" grades 4. It was great to meet all the children again.
Taytay has grown from a few hundred families when the Star of Hope opened the school there for about 20 years ago. Today there is at least 6-7 000 families in the area. I'll try to find out how many exactly. A former "land fill" has been a residential area.
There are a lot of things you may not be used to in in USA: bicycle taxi, sidecar motorcycle taxi overcrowded with children and young people on their way to and from school. Then there are lots of other things. When you buy a soft drink as it is poured into a plastic bag and you get to the straw. Cheaper for the children and the seller gets his bottle refund from the soft drinks companies.
