LLCI Conducts Outreach Program

By: Ma. Cristel Grace Raquel

With the aim of instilling Christian virtuesamong the students and school faculty, LIDE Learning Center Inc. (LLCI) conducts outreach program to the different barangays in Isabel, Leyte.

Mr. Longino Sacares, head of Student Services, said "The outreach program is an avenue for LIDEAN students, teachers and parents to follow Christ's teaching of helping the poor".

He also added that the program promotes community orientation for the volunteers to develop leadership skills and gain more self-confidence in relating with other people.

The activities included in the outreach program are Bigay Puso, cathechism classes, skills training, cooking, computer literacy, adopt a community, feeding the children and sports activities.

The top priority of the program is Brgy Mahayag "since it is the adopted community of the school". Other Barangays also include Brgy Libertad and Brgy Marvel.

He said that the budget for the program is sponsored by Local Government Unit (LGU). Philippine Associated Smelting and Refinery Corp (PASAR), Philippine Phosphate Fertilizer Corp. (PHILPHOS), LIDE Management Corp (LMC) and other private owners such as M Lhuiller Pawnshop.

He said, "At first, the residents in Brgy Mahayag doubted the program but we showed our sincerity in helping them."

Mr. Sacares stated that LLCI plans to have Bigay Puso and Lapis at Papel this Christmas which aims to help improve the quality of education through donating school supplies to the different schools in Brgy Mahayag and Brgy Libertad.

"But it is not only during Christmas that we paractice the art of giving", he said. "It should be practiced everyday.